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Thiol Libre: How to Liberate Thiols In Your Beer

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Thiol Libre: How to Liberate Thiols In Your Beer

This week we launched Thiol Libre, a new yeast bred to enhance thiol and tropical fruit aromas in your beers. Read on below for tips on how to use...

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Recipe: Chocolate Strawberry Kombucha

Valentine's Day is all about showing love and attention to the people you care about. At Escarpment, we love our customers and we love Kombucha, so...

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Designing a beer for biotransformation

Lately it seems like brewers are trying all sorts of wild techniques to unlock new flavours in their beers. In this article I will break down thiol...

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The Co-op Experience at Escarpment Labs: 2021 Edition

My name is Sydney Johnson, and I just finished an eight-month co-op student term at Escarpment Labs in December of 2021. I’m currently in my final ...

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Approaches to Non-Alcoholic Beer Fermentation

Why non-alcoholic beer? For several years, Escarpment Labs has invested in research and development into yeasts for brewing non-alcoholic beer, te...

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2022 Strain Collection Poster: Now Available for Download!

With a New Year, comes a new Strain Poster! View all of our updated strains and their key characteristics at a glance through our main collectio...

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Need help picking a yeast? (Strain Comparison Chart)

When your goal is to make the lives of your customers easier, you look to a lot of different areas to make changes. In lots of cases, there are fac...

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How can supporting local suppliers help your brewery?

I’m going to lead with a bold and controversial statement: craft breweries are often telling customers to buy local or Canadian, but they often do...

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Better, Faster, Foggier: Foggy London Improvements

When it comes to our goals of continuously improving the quality of our products and services, nothing is more valuable than customer feedback. Th...

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Why should you trust our yeast? Quality Control at Escarpment Labs

Building, sustaining, and repairing trust is a major focus for us at Escarpment Labs. You, as a brewer, put a lot of faith in us to ensure that we...

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Recipe: Hydra Hazy Pale Ale

Recipe Name: Hydra Hazy Pale Ale Yeast: Hydra This recipe is a variation on a base recipe we use for testing hazy pale ales in house. To amp up t...

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The Making of KRISPY 2.0

Note to readers: based on positive brewer feedback, KRISPY 2.0 is now KRISPY and the "legacy" KRISPY will be phased out. You know and may have b...

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Fermented Hot Sauce Mega Guide

PRO TIP! For repeatable and fast fermentation performance in hot sauce, pitch 1 pack of Lactobacillus Blend 2.0 per 4L (or 4kg) of hot pepper ferme...