Jonah GS talks Koji at KJ Urban Winery Brewing Company – 20 October, 2021

By csaundersOctober 6, 2021October 19, 2021

Please join us at 7:30PM at KJ Urban Winery & Craft Brewing on Wednesday for our first indoor club meeting since March 2020. This will include a rad presentation on food fermentation/Koji from Jonah – long time True Grist member, and head of Homebrew and Food Ferments at Escarpment Labs. There is also an opportunity…

Registration for “Beer wars: Battle of Belgian Pale Ale”

By jangevaareJanuary 17, 2019

This is our first Beer Wars event. This is a team based competition, where all teams brew a specific style. The first style we’ll battle out is Belgian Pale Ale. Escarpment Labs has sponsored the event and will be providing the yeast for each team’s brew – their new Ringfish Belgian Ale strain (non-diastatic, POF+)….

December 2018 Meeting

By jangevaareJanuary 8, 2019January 7, 2019 Meeting recap Beer, Block 3, Charity, Escarpment Labs, Jockey box, Monthly meeting, Short Finger Brewing Company, Tavistock Hops, The Food Bank, The Food Bank of Waterloo Region

True Grist held a special meeting in December at SFBC. At this meeting we recapped the year, spoke about what’s to come, AND raised $1000 for the Food Bank of Waterloo Region!

November 2018 meeting

By theplatNovember 27, 2018 Educational, Meeting recap Diacetyl, Escarpment Labs, Fixed Gear, Meeting recap, Monthly meeting, True Brewer

Our monthly meeting for November was our first visit to Fixed Gear Brewing in Guelph. We completed our True Brewer holiday homebrew exchange, and had an excellent guest presentation from Nate Ferguson of Escarpment Labs.

Escarpment Labs Visit 2018

By r3dunlopMay 14, 2018May 14, 2018 Special event recap Escarpment Labs, Fermentation, Process, Tour, Wild Yeast, Yeast

This month instead of our usual club meeting, we had a very special tour from Richard Preiss of Guelph’s own Escarpment Labs.

Making a Yeast Starter

By r3dunlopApril 9, 2018April 16, 2018 Educational, Member article Escarpment Labs, Fermentation, Process, Starter, Yeast

Making a yeast starter was a daunting task to me as a new brewer, and it took me over a year to really start tackling that aspect of brewing. Hopefully this post helps anyone starting to get into liquid yeast, or hasn’t made the leap yet because they think propagating yeast is an advanced skill. If you can make a beer, you can make a yeast starter. Trust me, it’s super easy!

Field trip to Escarpment Labs

By jangevaareApril 5, 2018April 10, 2018

Join us as we tour the growing facilities of our favourite yeast producer, Escarpment Labs. Ask the Escarpment Labs team your burning questions about Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus (and more?) in brewing, and learn more about where your brewing cultures come from. This facility tour and Q&A will be coupled with a yeast buy. This event…

True Grist visits Escarpment Labs

By jangevaareJune 8, 2017April 16, 2018 Special event recap Escarpment Labs, Fermentation, Propagation, Tour, Wild Yeast, Yeast

Yesterday (June 7th, 2017), the folks at Escarpment Labs were kind enough to invite True Grist to their production facility for a tour and a Q&A period. Around 20 True Grist members arrived to Escarpment Labs and were welcomed with a sample of a very interesting tart pale ale, fermented with Lactobacillus and Kveik in…