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Richard Preiss
Crispy Brewing with Kveik: Mind the pH Gap
Yes, another post about kveik. We promise the next few blog posts will cover other topics like new Brett strains, yeast nutrition, and food fermen...
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Richard Preiss and Iz Netto
The Impact of Pitch Rate on Kveik Ferments
This week, we presented a scientific poster at the MBAA National Conference in Calgary on the impact of pitch rate on kveik ferments. This is a qu...
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Alex Mitro
PCR Update: Pipette, Cry, Repeat
Hey everyone, 2019 has been quite a year in terms of ongoing research at Escarpment Labs. The R&D Department has been drumming up some excitin...
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Richard Preiss
Don't Forget the Brett
Sometimes, amid the kettle souring, NEIPA, and kveik crazes, it's hard to remember what got me into this yeast thing in the first place. For me, ma...
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Richard Preiss
Using Norwegian Kveik: Old Yeast, New Tricks
It seems like everyone these days is talking about Norwegian kveik yeasts, due to the promise of fast, clean, and hot fermentations beyond what we...
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Richard Preiss
Quality Management at Escarpment Labs
Many craft breweries these days are managing a wide range of yeasts and other fermentative organisms under their roof. This is largely due to cust...
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Richard Preiss
Tales From the Lab
At the end of 2018, we fully intended to write up a recap of the year and post it here, with some hints at things to come. Unfortunately/fortunat...
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Alex Mitro
QC and Me (A Guide to Agar Plating)
Hi everyone, today’s blog post is about the importance of a plating program within the brewery. Plating beer samples on a regular basis not only a...
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Nate Ferguson
A Practical Guide to Yeast Repitching
Introduction When most brewers are starting out, they rely on dry yeast cultures for the bulk of production. Dry yeast is very easy to use, and a...
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Alex Mitro and Jonah Greenbaum-Schinder
Homebrew Update: All the Pouchabilities
Introduction Hey homebrew fanatics! By now, we hope you’ve had the chance to get your hands on our new homebrew pouches, which have replaced the o...
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Iz Netto
Reduce, Reuse, Repitch (Part 2)
Last time on the blog, I went over the Yeast repitching project and why it was important for us to track the health of our four main strains over ...
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Iz Netto
Reduce, Reuse, Repitch (Part 1)
Almost a year ago, we started a project geared toward better understanding how our core yeast strains behave when they are reused in the brewery. ...
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Chris Saunders
Crop, Pray, Count (Yeast Counting Guide)
One of the key factors in a healthy and timely fermentation is knowing how much yeast you are sending into your fermentation. Pitching too little ...
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