How was your Friday morning? Full of tasty delights that feed your belly and your curiosity? Well, on Friday April 22nd, 55 women from Leadership California were treated to early coffees with a presentation from chemical engineer Tonya Kuhl, co-director of the UC Davis Coffee Center, followed by a honey tasting with Amina Harris, director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center.
The complexity of beer was the topic of the first “night at the museum” event at Sacramento’s newest science center, the SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity (MOSAC) on March 28, 2022.
UC Davis Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor Glen Fox and Emeritus Professor Charlie Bamforth were the guest speakers to talk about the “Science of Suds”.
A complex, but easy-drinking Scottish export ale, with a copper hue and hints of caramel, was crowned the top beer at this year’s Iron Brew competition.
In the first Craft Maltsters Guild's "Field to Bench" series for 2022 (the series features the people behind some of the world's leading malt research), FST's Glen Fox and Maany Ramanan (UC Brewing/Food Science doctoral candidate) talk about Fox's background studying barley quality, his current research focus on starch structure, and how it impacts wort and beer quality, as well as Maany's current research project - assessing the effect of environment and genotype on malt quality.
UC Davis Chancellor Gary May visited the Anheuser Busch InBev Pilot Brewery on February 3rd at the invitation of Glen Fox, FST's Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences, to visit with students enjoying a brewing class on-site as classes have resumed in-person.
Dr. Kyria Boundy-Mills, curator of the Phaff Yeast Culture Collection in the Food Science and Technology department at UC Davis, received an award of $579,246 from the National Science Foundation. This will fund the transfer of professor emeritus and yeast taxonomist Dr. Marc-André Lachance’s collection of 6,000 yeast strains from the University of Western Ontario to UC Davis, expanding the Phaff collection catalog by over 50%.
FST's Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Charlie Bamforth, is interviewed by Jim Brown, UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education Director of Fermentation Science, as part of UC Davis Emeriti Association's long-running and popular Video Records Project.
At the end of July, Drs. Glen Fox and Charlie Bamforth were the keynote speakers in the "Chile-California Seminar: Strengthening the Local Brewing Industry". The webinar was an opportunity for exchange of experiences and collaboration between the UC Davis Brewing Program and brewers in Chile. Sponsors were the UC Davis Chile Life Sciences Innovation Center and CORFO.
The new award is named after Professors Graham Stewart and Charlie Bamforth. It is most appropriate that this award be named jointly as during the 1990s and 2000s both ran a very successful series of educational symposia to aspiring brewing students in Africa, Asia, India and the Americas. Both have written and edited numerous fundamental malting, brewing and distilling texts that are now routinely referred to by students.
From James Bruner, Andrew Marcus, and Glen Fox of UC Brewing Program: "Our latest research shows how a set of standard brewing yeasts and some diverse yeasts respond to dry hopping. Still lots more to do but we're helping fill the knowledge gaps on the 'refreshing power of hops' " https://www.mdpi.com/2311-5637/7/2/66/htm
Glen Fox joined Brülosophy contributor Cade Jobe in The Brü Lab this week to talk about his research comparing various mash methods and liquor-to-grist ratios using infrared spectroscopy. Listen to the conversation in Episode 002, "Comparing Mash Methods w/ Dr. Glen Fox" here: https://brulosophy.com/podcasts/the-bru-lab/
Glen Fox was a special guest on the Master Brewers Association of the Americas podcast #200, "Storming the Congress Mash", along with Mary-Jane Maurice.
Recognizing UC Davis’ commitment to inclusion and diversity and its reputation for brewing education, the North Coast Brewing Company of Fort Bragg, California partnered with the Master Brewers Certificate Program at UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education to support aspiring brewing professionals.
