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2023 Craft Beer and Yeast Predictions!

2023 Craft Beer and Yeast Predictions!

Welcome to our blog on the top beer trends for 2023! Despite the recent challenges posed by the pandemic as well as rising costs of ingredients and...

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 Nicole Irvine

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...

food ferments Tomas Fischer

Brewing Non-Traditional Saké with Kveik

When I started my co-op at Escarpment Labs, I took a great deal of interest in koji. Known as Aspergillus oryzae, this filamentous fungi has a plet...

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...

inside escarpment Attilio Consigli

Reliably Recyclable: How does Escarpment Labs stack up?

We’ve all heard it for as long as we can remember… the three R’s; Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle! The first two options are great and completely within...

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...

homebrew Richard Preiss

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...

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...