
Glen Fox
Special guest
Dr Glen Fox is the Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Science at the University of California, Davis campus. His roles include teaching the undergraduate brewing courses, as well as conducting research with graduate students. His current research focus is on cereal starch structure and its impact of wort quality, fermentation efficiency and beer quality.
Prior to joining UC Davis, he was a Senior Research Fellow at University of Queensland’s Centre for Nutrition and Food Science in Australia from 2010 to 2019. In 2018, he was made a Fellow of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling for his research contribution to the malting and brewing industries. Dr Fox is part of the team writing the new syllabus for the Institute of Brewing and Distilling certificate in malting course. He has over 100 peer reviewed book chapters and journal articles and was the senior editor, of the recent book “Achieving sustainable cultivation of barley.”
Glen Fox has been a guest on 6 episodes.
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Episode 328: Hitting Quality Targets
February 24th, 2025 | 56 mins 10 secs
What NIR analysis of roughly 200 beers at UC Davis can tell us about hitting quality targets.
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Episode 326: THP
January 27th, 2025 | 33 mins 36 secs
How mousey off-flavor is formed in beer and how it can be measured.
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Episode 190: Variation in Starch Structure
November 11th, 2024 | 37 mins 3 secs
Did you know that the gelatinization temperature of your malt could be as low as 136F or as high as 154F? Charlie Bamforth's successor joins us to talk about variations in starch structure and what that might mean for your mash.
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Episode 313: Omics
July 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
What's the buzz in omics all about and how can it help you make better beer?
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Episode 260: Beer & Health
September 19th, 2022 | 51 mins 36 secs
You and I both know that beer has a lot of nutritional value, but are we prepared to speak intelligently about that? How do we get consumers to look past beer's stereotypes and click-bait headlines?
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Episode 200: Reconsidering the Congress Mash
February 8th, 2021 | 49 mins 6 secs
Should the numbers on your malt COA be produced from a mash that's more similar to your brewery mashes? Did you know that's already happening when you buy UK malt? Listen up, then join the conversation.