Master Brewers Podcast

How yeast propagation works (both in the lab & in the brewery) at Urban Chestnut Brewing Co. Special Guest: Florian Kuplent.

As reported in Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03293-x), Charles Denby used CRISPR-Cas9 (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/update-crispr) to successfully engineer brewers yeast (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/science/craft-beer-hops.html) to produce linalool and geraniol. We interview both Charles and Bryan Donaldson (Lagunitas) who oversaw the sensory analysis for this groundbreaking study. Special Guests: Bryan Donaldson and Charles Denby.

An exciting, new 2-row winter variety coming out of Virginia Tech, the advantages winter barley brings to growers, maltsters, and brewers, the challenges ahead, and how you can get involved. Special Guests: Ashley McFarland, Nicholas Santantonio, Trey Hill, and Zach Gaines.

How & why Resident Culture conditions with speise. Special Guest: David Fuhrer.

How Drake's Brewing Co approaches sustainability. Special Guest: Hal McConnellogue.

Elliot Parcells & Josh Pohlmann put together some experiments to better understand if the sanitizers used at Bell's Brewery were doing their jobs.

Everyone is doing it. Are you doing it safely? Special Guest: Mark Jaeggi.

2 real-life brewery horror stories and 3 guys who hope you'll make a new year's resolution to take brewery safety seriously. Special Guests: Brian Faivre and Eric Moore.

Over-carbonation. Exploding bottles. Lawsuits. Super-attenuation caused by diastaticus contamination is a hot topic in the brewing industry. We bring you interviews with brewers, yeast suppliers, and independent microbiologists to talk about detection, prevention, and more. Whether your strategy is to keep diastaticus out of your brewery altogether or to manage it alongside other Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains lacking the STA gene, you're guaranteed to learn something from these interviews. Special Guests: Andy Tveekrem, Matthew Peetz, Matt Linske, Michelle McHugh, Sylvie Van Zandycke, Tobias Fischborn, and Wade Begrow.

Over-carbonation. Exploding bottles. Lawsuits. Super-attenuation caused by diastaticus contamination is a hot topic in the brewing industry. We bring you interviews with brewers, yeast suppliers, and independent microbiologists to talk about detection, prevention, and more. Whether your strategy is to keep diastaticus out of your brewery altogether or to manage it alongside other Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains lacking the STA gene, you're guaranteed to learn something from these interviews. Special Guests: Andy Tveekrem, Matthew Peetz, Matt Linske, Michelle McHugh, Sylvie Van Zandycke, Tobias Fischborn, and Wade Begrow.

Franco-Belgian style table beer & how Jester King brews their version Special Guest: Jeffrey Stuffings.

How brewery chillers work, troubleshooting tips, common mistakes, and easy preventative maintenance to keep it running for years to come. Special Guest: Damon Reed.

The hotly anticipated release of the USDA public hop breeding program's 1st tropical aroma bomb. What it took to finally get here, what the future looks like, and more. Special Guest: John Henning.

Why does dry-hopping during active fermentation change sensory profiles? Is the black box of biotransformation really what drives those changes or is it something else entirely? Special Guests: Leandro Meiners and Mati Cavanna.

Using the dissolved CO2 content of active fermentations to control your process. Special Guests: Andrew MacIntosh and Karen Fortmann.

The disease has moved out of Africa, it's now in the Middle East. It's only a matter of time before it arrives. It's a numbers game. Pat Hayes joins us to talk about barley breeding, the race against disease, genetic tools, and more. Special Guest: Patrick Hayes.

Are we one step closer to understanding the origin of Hop Creep? Special Guest: Charlie Bamforth.

Are you prepared to face the most challenging barley crop most of us have ever seen? Special Guests: Drew Sharp, Matt Enns, and Peter Watts.

"Thiolized" CRISPR yeast, the world's 1st convincing argument for mash hopping, and more. Special Guests: Lance Shaner and Laura Burns.

Brian Faivre explains how one of the largest craft brewers is using data and tools (accessible to breweries of any size) to improve their process. Special Guest: Brian Faivre.