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Episode 049: Breathe, Breathe, Breathe, Scream
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Kerry Caldwell suffered severe injuries from an accident in the brewhouse. She was airlifted and overcame the 34% chance of survival calculated by the hospital. This episode is both the story of her accident and a description of a simple, inexpensive device that should be installed in your brewery to prevent similar accidents. Special Guests: Kerry…
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Episode 337: CIP Flow Rates – when “rules of thumb” break
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What’s your optimal flow rate during CIP and what happens if you don’t hit it? Special Guest: Travis Audet. Sponsored By: Hopsteiner: Proximity Malt: BSG: Berkeley Yeast: The Lupulin Exchange: PLAATO: Links: CIP Flow Rates – when “rules of thumb” break — 2021 Master Brewers Conference Upcoming Events - Master Brewers Calendar Brewing Summit 2025 — …
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How to keep your brewery from becoming condominiums. Special Guest: Bill Maca. Sponsored By: Hopsteiner: Proximity Malt: BSG: Berkeley Yeast: The Lupulin Exchange: PLAATO: Links: Pragmatic Aspects to Consistent Fermentation Quality — 2021 MBAA TQ Pragmatic Aspects to Consistent Fermentation Quality — 2019 Master Brewers Conference Reducing Error…
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Episode 336: Financial Literacy for Brewers
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Could open-book management transform your brewery? Special Guest: Audra Gaiziunas. Sponsored By: Hopsteiner: Proximity Malt: BSG: Berkeley Yeast: The Lupulin Exchange: PLAATO: Links: Forging Financials From Beskar: Protecting Our Breweries From Financial Distress — District New England presentation Brewing Summit 2025 — August 13-15 Palm Desert, CA…
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Episode 210: Benchmarking Sustainability
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3 different perspectives from breweries large & small. You'll hear about the BA's Benchmarking tool, other resources to support your sustainability journey, and how to take some baby steps if you haven't made any progress yet. Special Guests: Charlie Hoxmeier, Hannah Johnson, and Lizzy Waters. Sponsored By: Hopsteiner: Proximity Malt: BSG: Berkeley…
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Should you be paying more attention to fermentable sugars instead of total extract? Special Guest: Trevor Cowley. Sponsored By: Hopsteiner: Proximity Malt: BSG: Berkeley Yeast: The Lupulin Exchange: Links: Brewing Summit 2025 — August 13-15 Palm Desert, CA Upcoming Events - Master Brewers Calendar Join Master Brewers…
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Episode 203: Cloudy with a Chance of Production
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Our friends at Highland Brewing talk about the network of people, tools, forecasts, and workflows that build their production schedule. Special Guests: Abbey Temoshchuk Reynolds and Matt McComish. Sponsored By: Hopsteiner: Proximity Malt: BSG: Berkeley Yeast: The Lupulin Exchange: Links: Cloudy with a Chance of Production: Tips for Effective Brewer…
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What happens when you resurrect an old world landrace barley variety and give it to a bunch of brewers in CA? Special Guests: Colin Johnston and Josh Wurzbacher. Sponsored By: Hopsteiner: Proximity Malt: BSG: Berkeley Yeast: The Lupulin Exchange: Links: Exploring the World’s First Malting Collaboration — 2025 District Northern Cal presentation Upco…
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How The Matt Brewing Company deals spent hop material & other things you wish you knew before you built a brewery. Special Guest: Jim Kuhr. Sponsored By: Hopsteiner: Proximity Malt: BSG: Berkeley Yeast: The Lupulin Exchange: Links: Lessons Learned Regarding Spent Hop Material Recovered from Wastewater Stream and the Final Composting Solution — 20…
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Effects of regional location on the genotype and phenotype of historical Irish brewing yeast Special Guest: Daniel Kerruish. Sponsored By: Hopsteiner: Proximity Malt: BSG: Berkeley Yeast: The Lupulin Exchange: Links: Effects of regional location on the genotype and phenotype of historical Irish brewing yeast — Frontiers The origins of the Guinness …
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What happens the world's most popular yeast strain gets fermented at different temperatures and pitch rates? Special Guest: Anne Flesch. Sponsored By: Hopsteiner: Proximity Malt: BSG: Berkeley Yeast: The Lupulin Exchange: Links: IMPACT OF THE FERMENTATION CONDITIONS ON THE WEIHENSTEPHAN LAGER STRAIN — 2020 District Northern California presentation …
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Episode 332: Substitutes for the Substitutes of the Substitutes
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The last of the three-part series of Technical Quarterly articles providing insights to the upcoming MBAA publication The Inspiring and Surprising History and Legacy of American Lager Beer: 1941–1948, the focus of this paper is a review of the American brewing industry during the tumultuous years of World War II (1941–1945) and those immediately fo…
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This week on the show, something that most brewers new to canning never consider but can make or break a brewery. Special Guests: Hannah Krieg and Vivian Poteat. Sponsored By: Hopsteiner: Proximity Malt: BSG: Berkeley Yeast: The Lupulin Exchange: Links: Can Liner Quality and Testing Methods — 2021 District St. Paul - Minneapolis Presentation Distri…
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