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CANADIAN HOMEBREW DAY: Meet the 2025 Homebrew Heroes!

Celebrating Canadian Homebrew Day with passion, precision, and a whole lot of yeast! At Escarpment Labs, we truly believe that homebrewers are the ...

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RECIPE: Dark Lager for National Beer Day

Did you know that August 2nd, 2024 marks National Beer Day? While we love to celebrate beer itself, it's also great time to reflect on the role be...

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NEW DOWNLOAD: 2024 Homebrew Product Calendar

It's easier than ever to plan your brews in 2024! After a successful first year, we're introducing the newest edition of our calendar for your ho...

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Showcasing Ontario Hops: Escarpment Labs Internal Homebrew Competition

September may mean that the warm days of summer are coming to an end, but it also means one important event for brewers: hop harvest time. The tre...

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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...

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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...

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Escarpment Labs Holiday Gift Guide

Are you or someone you love a difficult-to-buy-for brewer? Maybe someone who has recently been getting into fermentation? Or maybe you're just loo...

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How to Homebrew A Low Alcohol IPA

Since we launched NAY (our yeast for non-alcoholic beers), there has been a ton of interest from both professional and home brewers. Lots of brewer...

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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...

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Homebrew Experiment: KRISPY Under Pressure

A Home Brewing experiment with Krispy: Ferment Under 10 PSI Pressure vs Atmospheric A while back, Richard Priess wrote a post on the Fermenting wi...

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DIY Bobo Libre for Canadian Homebrew Day!

It's a picture perfect Saturday, and you're looking for something new to stretch those homebrew muscles. Well, on this Canadian Homebrew Day you're...

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Homebrew Experiment: Does Yeast Nutrient Matter?

Ride the Lightning: Yeast Lightning Split Batch I’m a homebrewer. Like most homebrewers, I have no formal education in brewing. I’ve learned my cra...