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Need help picking a yeast? (Strain Comparison Chart)

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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 w...

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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...

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Investing in Brewing Science Knowledge

At Escarpment Labs, we have made knowledge a core value of our organization. This means a lot of different things. It means we hire and train peop...

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Recipe: Still Classy (low ABV Hydra hazy)

Recipe Name: Still ClassyYeast: Hydra This recipe is an adaptation of a beer I've made a few times, usually using Vermont or Cerberus or a blend ...

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5 Tips for Success with Kveik Yeast

Kveik is a genetically unique family of yeast strains from Norwegian farmhouse brewers, which has taken the brewing community by storm in the las...

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Looking Forward: Paid Parental Leave

Happy Father’s Day! The ownership team here at Escarpment Labs includes two dads, and between us Nate and I have had three children since starting...

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Zodiac Signs for the Yeast Enthusiast

When you work with yeast as much as we do, it doesn’t take long to notice that they’ve all got their own unique personalities. From spicy saisons t...