Escarpment Labs Blog - Yeast, Beer, Fermentation and More – Tagged "knowledge"

homebrew Bruce Benneke

Homebrew Experiment: Shaking vs. Pure O2 in a Hazy IPA

A Home Brewing experiment with Oxygenation by guest blogger Bruce Benneke. Oxygen plays a huge role in the early stages of fermentation. It’s vit...

knowledge Richard Preiss

5 Off Flavours Caused By Beer Yeast (And How To Prevent Them)

As a brewer, the last thing you want to hear is a complaint about off-flavours in your beer. We all strive to create the perfect pint. However, so...

homebrew Tyler Ustrzycki

Homebrew Experiment: Thiol Libre vs. Base Malts & Hops

Release the Thiols Note, May 2023 - Thiol Libre has been updated to eliminate the risk of phenol production, which makes it easier to experiment wi...

downloads Richard Preiss

Your Guide to Quick/Kettle Sours with Lactobacillus

The following excerpt is from our newly updated guide, Kettle/Quick Souring with Lactobacillus - which is now available for download! Originally ...

knowledge Brynn Keenan

Managing Fermentation Performance

One of the goals of Escarpment Labs is to help provide our customers with the tools to make the best quality product. Often times, this means equi...

food ferments Tomas Fischer

Brewing Non-Traditional Saké with Kveik

Curious about blending brewing traditions? In this post, Escarpment Labs co-op student Tomas explores what happens when you swap traditional sake y...

knowledge Brynn Keenan

Dry Hop Creep: What is it, and how can Grist Analytics help?

One of the goals of Escarpment Labs is to help provide our customers with the tools to make the best quality product. Often times, this means equip...

knowledge Ana Ivosevic

Fermenting Kvass: A Slavic Bread-Based Ale

When starting my co-op at Escarpment Labs it was recommended that I devise a project involving fermentation. I decided to try making kvass, a bever...

knowledge Richard Preiss

Yeast Storage Time Between Batches (Pro Brewing)

One of the biggest challenges and mysteries that brewers using liquid yeast face is how long yeast can be stored in between batches without risk of...

knowledge Krista Stemmler

How to design a beer sensory program (that actually generates results)

Sensory Tasting with Purpose A sensory program is a massive component of quality assurance that has the honoured distinction of simultaneously soun...

homebrew Henry Hussey

Homebrew Experiment: Impact of Phantasm Powder with Thiol Libre Yeast

Welcome to Thiol bootcamp, brewers! My name is Henry Hussey and I’ve been a homebrewer for 2 years. I picked up the new hobby – well perhaps, obse...

inside escarpment Patrick Wynn-Williams

Moving towards sustainability: New boxes & alternative shipping materials

New boxes and the sustainability challenges of cold chain shipping Shipping live cultures isn’t nearly as straightforward as shipping a t-shirt (or...