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BYO Nano Brew PodcastEpisode 67: Improving your Beer QualitySensory analysis, setting up a lab for QC tests, and understanding your raw ingredients are all paramount when it comes to improving the quality of your beer. We talk with two experts - Lindsay Barr and Ashton Lewis - who are here to help you level up beer quality in a small-scale brewery.Guests:Lindsay Barr is the CSO and Founding Partner of DraughtLab Sensory Software where she helps food & beverage companies use tasting technology to make products that people love. After earning a Masters in Food Science from UC Davis, she began her career at N...
2025-07-1559 min
Good Beer HuntingRV-003: Building Inclusive Lexicons for BeerThis episode is one of a three-part series recorded as part of the Rare & Vintage Beer Tasting, an annual event held in Durham, North Carolina that brings brewers and beer lovers together from all over the country. Along with a beer festival, Rare & Vintage also hosts beer industry professional development conversations each January. The combo acts as a fundraising and awareness effort for the Michael James Jackson Foundation, which funds education and career advancement for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the brewing and distilling industries. For this year’s event, I moderated three discussions, and in...
2024-03-0253 min
Why This PodcastJam Bands with a Lab ManagerOn a list of full-on sensory experiences, you would be mistaken if you didn’t include the jam band scene. We talk with Lab Manager and Sensory Scientist Sydney Zagger of Russian River Brewing about why the music and people keep her coming back.
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2024-02-2114 min
Why This PodcastSuper Bowl Sensory with the DraughtLab TeamThe Super Bowl is this weekend, so we’re breaking down this unique “holiday” and how it impacts our behaviors. From the plates we eat on, to the ads we’re served during the game, sensory plays a part in our experience.
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2024-02-0815 min
Why This PodcastHoliday Movies with a CoworkerWith 40 NEW holiday movies being released every year, it's likely that a formula exists to make them successful. To figure it out, we had our coworker Brooke dive-in and watch holiday movies to identify the key characteristics.
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2023-12-1115 min
Why This PodcastImprov with an ExecutiveImprov performers rely on their creativity, quick thinking, and collaboration to do live theatre with no script. We catch up with Senior Director Brooke Bell to learn how those skills help in other areas of life.
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2023-11-2115 min
Why This PodcastAmaro with an EnthusiastAmaro means "bitter" in Italian, but it hardly tells the story of the wide range of flavors and styles in this category of liqueurs. We talk with amaro enthusiast and co-owner of Burial Beer's Tim Gormley about what makes this drink so interesting.
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2023-11-0614 min
Do You (Even) Drink Beer?Sensory w/Lindsday BarrOur hosts welcome their first guest Lindsay Barr from DraughtLab to discuss sensory, quality control, flavor maps, and soup.Learn more about DraughtLab: https://www.draughtlab.com/Listen to Lindsay's Podcast Why This?: https://www.draughtlab.com/whythispodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-10-2355 min
Why This PodcastWorst Halloween Treats with Adults and KidsIt's almost Halloween, so it's a perfect time to run a test and determine what is the least favorite treat for both adults and kids.
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2023-10-2313 min
Why This PodcastSecret Menus with a CoworkerMost fast food chains have secret menu items available if you know what to order. We sent our coworker Brooke to try and get her hands on these mystery foods to see what the hype is all about.
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2023-10-0915 min
Why This PodcastTiny Foods with a ChefThe end products may be tiny, but the amount of care and attention to detail are huge. We talk with Tiny Food competition winner Kaitlyn Peot about how it all works and why Tiny Food has such a loyal following.
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2023-09-2514 min
Why This PodcastMushroom Hunting with a BrewerForaging for mushrooms can be serious business, which was our discussion with mushroom hunter and brewmaster Ross Koenigs of Second Dawn Brewing.
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2023-09-1116 min
All About BeerBrewer to Brewer: Lindsay Barr and Averie Swanson (Ep. 29)Lindsay Barr of DraughtLab interviews Averie Swanson of Keeping Together.This Episode is Sponsored by:Firsd TeaFirsd Tea is a proud sponsor of the Brewer to Brewer podcast. Discover the advantage of using new and unique ingredients, like lemon myrtle or lapsang souchong. Firsd Tea has been working with brewers to introduce distinctive, high-quality botanicals for innovative craft beers. They focus on being DIRECT, FLEXIBLE, and FAST. You can find out more about Firsd Tea’s collaborations with brewers and tea ingredients by visiting blog.firsdtea.com.Yakima Va...
2023-08-3158 min
Why This PodcastPickleball with a Semi-ProPickleball is one of the fast growing sports in the country, so we asked semi-pro Joanna Laubscher to gives us 3 reasons why everyone is getting out to play.
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2023-08-2814 min
Why This PodcastCottage Cheese with a DadCottage cheese is having a moment, so we decided to break it down with an original fanatic... a Dad.
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2023-08-2813 min
2023-08-2800 min
All About BeerBrewer to Brewer: Andrea Stanley and Lindsay Barr (Ep. 28)Andrea Stanley of Valley Malt interviews Lindsay Barr of DraughtLab.This Episode is Sponsored by:Firsd TeaFirsd Tea is a proud sponsor of the Brewer to Brewer podcast. Discover the advantage of using new and unique ingredients, like lemon myrtle or lapsang souchong. Firsd Tea has been working with brewers to introduce distinctive, high-quality botanicals for innovative craft beers. They focus on being DIRECT, FLEXIBLE, and FAST. You can find out more about Firsd Tea’s collaborations with brewers and tea ingredients by visiting blog.firsdtea.com.Yakima Va...
2023-08-171h 03
'Booch NewsKKON23: VendorsThe partner sponsors of the Kombucha Conference exhibited at booths in the hotel. I spoke with each about their services, hear what they told me in this podcast.
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2023-04-1910 min
Good Beer Matters PodcastGBM Special Series from Craft Beer Conference 2021 - DraughtlabEvery year the Brewer’s Association puts together the Craft Beer Conference, or CBC, as a means for industry professionals to continue their education, network with peers and improve quality and performance.
I attended this year’s CBC as a member of the media, and because there are plenty of beer pros that didn’t make it, I wanted to share a few of the many exhibitors that I think you ought to know about.
Some of these companies I’m already familiar with and I personally know they’re doing great things.
But, some...
2021-09-2208 min
Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine PodcastSensory Expert Lindsay Barr Wants You to Become a Better Beer TasterTaste. It’s a hard subject to quantify but there’s nothing more important in the world of beer. We spend hour after hour talking about the minute details of brewing process and technique, but how much time and energy do we spend focusing on developing the most important analytical tool we have—our own palates?
In this episode, sensory expert Lindsay Barr, the former head of the New Belgium Brewing sensory program and cofounder of Draughtlab sensory software, walks through the nuances of tasting beer and the fundamentals of palate development. The conversation ranges from basics like b...
2020-04-181h 08
AigoraCastLindsay Barr - Focus on Your BusinessLindsay Barr has a decade of experience working as a Sensory Specialist for New Belgium Brewing and is a Co-Founder of DraughtLab Sensory Software. She holds a Masters degree in Food Science from UC Davis and served as the chair of the ASBC Sensory Committee for five years where she developed and published seven new beer Sensory methods. She believes flavor is the most important factor in determining food and beverage quality and continues to develop tools focused on helping businesses use their senses to inform everyday production decisions. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/l...
2020-01-0831 min
Good Beer Matters PodcastGBM 33 - Improve Your Beer Palate and Your QA Program with Draught Lab Co-Founder, Lindsay Barr Decades ago, when craft beer was the wild west of flavor and ingredients were hard to come by, assuming someone knew what to do with them, studying the quality of beer was unheard of. Sure, the big breweries probably had food scientists in their employ, but I’ll bet you a beer that was to ensure consistency for the sake of revenue. The small brewer’s who tinkered in their garages with salvaged dairy equipment back then couldn’t afford labs and likely relied on tasting alone to evaluate new beer. This school of hard knocks approach helped later generat...
2019-07-1758 min
Master Brewers PodcastEpisode 031: Maintaining Good Yeast HealthIndustry veteran Mark Sammartino talks about his past experiences keeping yeast happy to achieve consistent fermentations.Links: MBAA TQ: Maintaining Good Yeast Health: A Reflection from Practice MBP: Zinc in Fermentation Special Guest: Mark Sammartino.Sponsored By:Hopsteiner: DraughtLab: Barnum Mechanical: ABS:
2018-11-1229 min
GotMead Live Radio Show10-16-18 Michael Jordan – Making Medical Mead10-16-28 Tonight we're off to cooler climes in Wyoming, and meeting with Michaell Jordan.
Michael Jordan is a hobby mead maker looking to go commercial in the near future. He has been keeping honey bees now for over 20 years. Michael’s family has been making mead not only as a tasty beverage, but for medical usage.
Michael blends herbs, and uses honey from all over the world for his medical meads. Michael has now grown into Colorado’s culture of cannabis. Infusing marijuana into honeys, using cannabis concentrates for higher CBD and THC contents, and blending them with old time...
2018-10-162h 14GotMead Live Radio Show10-9-18 Mateusz Blaszczyk – European Mead Makers Association Conference and Competitions10-9-18 Tonight we're going across the pond, in a recorded episode with Mateusz Blaszczyk, who is putting on the European Mead Makers Association's first Mead Conference, November 8-9 in Poznan, Poland. The group Kings of Mead YouTube channel will also be putting on two mead competitions, the Mead Madness Competition one for home meadmakers and one for professional meaderies.
Currently it is expected that 10 or more countries will have meadmakers attending the conference, so they're off to a great start!
The EMMA is picking up speed in Europe, starting in Switzerland by Alexander Eckert in Italy, in 2017. Currently it...
2018-10-091h 42Master Brewers PodcastEpisode 036: Torulaspora delbrueckiiMax Michel (Weihenstephan) describes how he used RSM to optimize a non-Saccharomyces strain for beer.LINKS: MBAA TQ: Optimization of Beer Fermentation with a Novel Brewing Strain Torulaspora delbrueckii Using Respmse Surface Methodology Sponsored By:Hopsteiner: DraughtLab: Barnum Mechanical: ABS:
2018-10-0823 minGotMead Live Radio Show10-2-18 Ryan Carlson – Pairing Yeasts to Meads – Part 210-2-18 We're dropping into teaching mode again tonight, and bringing in Ryan to talk mead. He'll be digging into pairing yeasts to your mead recipes, continuing the conversation from last week.
Possibly one of the larger questions in mead making is 'what yeast do I use?'. And a big question is is indeed. There are hundreds of yeasts out there, for wine, beer, cider and even a few mead specific yeasts.
But which one to choose? That is the question. Ryan is going to try to help you narrow this down, so you can make more focused yeast...
2018-10-022h 02GotMead Live Radio Show9-25-18 Ryan Carlson – Pairing Yeast to Meads9-25-18 We're dropping into teaching mode tonight, and bringing in Ryan to talk mead. He'll be digging into pairing yeasts to your mead recipes.
Possibly one of the larger questions in mead making is 'what yeast do I use?'. And a big question is is indeed. There are hundreds of yeasts out there, for wine, beer, cider and even a few mead specific yeasts.
But which one to choose? That is the question. Ryan is going to try to help you narrow this down, so you can make more focused yeast choices for your upcoming mead batches.
We're...
2018-09-252h 28GotMead Live Radio Show9-18-18 Scott Neeley – Kingview Mead in Pennsylvania9-18-18 We're headed up to Pennsylvania tonight, to talk with Scott Neeley, head meadmaker at Kingview Meadery.
Scott has been making mead since 2011, and did a lot of work at it, until he began to enter competitions in 2015. He has since picked up a number of medals, and a couple BoS medals. He ended up starting a meadery after visiting a number of meaderies around PA and OH, and as a man of German descent, and a lover of bees, felt it was the right move for him to make.
Scott is adamant about using cold fermenting, and fresh...
2018-09-182h 05GotMead Live Radio Show9-11-18 Thomas Hubbe – Bee Seasonal Honey and Tom Repas – honey expert and award winning mead maker9-11-18 Today we're getting together with Thomas Hubbe, co-owner of Bee Seasonal, a purveyor of Brazilian Honey.
Thomas and Larissa founded Bee Seasonal because they love honey. Larissa noticed that in Europe, they routinely stock seasonal honeys from around the world, but in the US, not so much. So she and Thomas set out to rectify this.
Their mission is to source organic honeys from beekeepers devoted to their bees, their communities and the land. They want to generate transparency by connecting consumers to producers, educating people about sustainable farming practices and the places where the honeys come from.
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2018-09-112h 12Master Brewers PodcastEpisode 103: Colloidal SilicaChika Ezeani discusses best practices when using silicic acid finning products.Sponsored By:Hopsteiner: DraughtLab: Barnum Mechanical: ABS:
2018-09-1021 minGotMead Live Radio Show9-4-18 Susan Ruud – On Oaking9-4-18 We're back after my trip to Australia (yes, we'll talk about the mead there too). And our first guest now that we're back is none other than Susan Ruud, co-founder of Prairie Rose Meadery in Fargo, ND. Susan makes pretty amazing mead, and when last I was there, last summer, I ended up getting nearly every one of her meads, because I just couldn't leave them out. All were excellent.
Susan spoke at the AHA Convention this year, and talked in depth on oaking meads. We're going to dig into that with her, and see how she uses...
2018-09-042h 21Master Brewers PodcastEpisode 021: Brewing IntensificationThe legendary Graham Stewart joins us to discuss his latest publication: Brewing Intensification Through the Lens of the Craft Brewer.Links: MBAA TQ: Brewing Intensification Through the Lens of the Craft Brewer Special Guest: Graham Stewart.Sponsored By:Hopsteiner: DraughtLab: Barnum Mechanical: ABS:
2018-09-0331 minGotMead Live Radio Show8-7-18 Sam Clikeman – Big Lost Meadery8-7-18 We're skipping over to Wyoming this week to visit with Sam Clikeman, owner of Big Lost Meadery. Sam started making beer back in the early 2000's in Logan, UT with a buddy. In a forest service cabin in the middle of the woods. No running water, very little electric, and not much by way of supplies. That takes dedication! It actually worked out better than you might think it would, and a couple years later, Sam discovered mead. Sam didn’t want to waste a year for a five gallon carboy of mead; if it is good, you onl...
2018-08-072h 14GotMead Live Radio Show7-31-18 Kiley Gwynn – Mountain Rose Herbs – BJCP Judge7-31-18
Mountain Rose Herbs is an online purveyor of the highest quality organically grown herbs and spices, teas, essential oils, & botanical goods. They focus on sustainability and offer one of the most thorough selections of certified organic herbs, spices, and botanical products today. Organics are their first choice regardless of price or profit. They try to stay as close to zero waste as they can, and have a Platinum ranking for Zero Waste Certification. Their herbs are certified organic, and sustainably harvested. They sell everything from herbs and spices, to culinary oils, bath and body care products, essential oils a...
2018-07-312h 08GotMead Live Radio Show7-24-18 Justin LeVaughn – Mead Analysis at Ethereal Brewing7-24-18 Tonight we're talking with Justin LeVaughn, who is the Quality Assurance and Quality Control Officer at Ethereal Brewing in Lexington, KY. Justin does the microbiological and sensory analysis there, and maintains their yeast stocks.
Justin started home brewing beer about 10 years ago in college, and combined his formal biology training with the hobby. He fell into the mead world about 4-5 years ago, and was hooked. His main passions are carbonated session meads and metheglins, but he regularly brews big fruit and spice meads. He loves experimenting with weird flavor combinations, and setting up trails with different flavors...
2018-07-242h 26