Escarpment Labs Availability in the U.S.

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Anyone know of U.S. outlets that sell Escarpment Labs yeasts? Asking for a friend .

 

[CascadesBrewer]

Two are listed at https://escarpmentlabs.com/en-us/pages/find-a-store

Great Fermentations (IN): https://www.greatfermentations.com/shop/category/escarpment-labs-yeast-523

Lancaster Homebrew (PA)...did not see any Escarpment Labs entries on their website right now: https://lancasterhomebrew.com/product-category/116-ingredients/201-yeast/203-liquid/

 

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Two are listed at https://escarpmentlabs.com/en-us/pages/find-a-store

Great Fermentations (IN): https://www.greatfermentations.com/shop/category/escarpment-labs-yeast-523

Lancaster Homebrew (PA)...did not see any Escarpment Labs entries on their website right now: https://lancasterhomebrew.com/product-category/116-ingredients/201-yeast/203-liquid/

I did see both of them. Lancaster (PA) is only about an hour up the road, but didn’t offer much encouragement about getting any for me. Great Fermentations was more helpful, telling me that they place orders with Escarpment every other month or so, took my number and email to follow up when they request another shipment.

I’m following up on another lead from Jaspar Labs (a small propagator near Dulles airport) who does boutique yeasts for local breweries and markets overstocks to homebrew stores in the D.C. area. Maryland Homebrew told me they had ‘several’ in the store, so as soon as I can drive I’ll be heading their way.

W2575-PC Kolsch II is supposed to release in April, so I’ll be all over that when it does. The W2565 that I found tucked away in a dark corner of my beer fridge (6 months out of date) responded well to a three-step Shaken Not Stirred propagation and yielded >300 ml of beautiful dense white slurry, but man that stuff took forever to drop clear and compact.

And the WLP-4061/Yeast Bay Kolsch starter has finally reached FG @ 1.008, but I’ll let it go for another couple of days before crashing. It should settle out to at least 300-400 ml of thick slurry.

 

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I did see both of them. Lancaster (PA) is only about an hour up the road, but didn’t offer much encouragement about getting any for me. Great Fermentations was more helpful, telling me that they place orders with Escarpment every other month or so, took my number and email to follow up when they request another shipment.

I’m following up on another lead from Jaspar Labs (a small propagator near Dulles airport) who does boutique yeasts for local breweries and markets overstocks to homebrew stores in the D.C. area. Maryland Homebrew told me they had ‘several’ in the store, so as soon as I can drive I’ll be heading their way.

W2575-PC Kolsch II is supposed to release in April, so I’ll be all over that when it does. The W2565 that I found tucked away in a dark corner of my beer fridge (6 months out of date) responded well to a three-step Shaken Not Stirred propagation and yielded >300 ml of beautiful dense white slurry, but man that stuff took forever to drop clear and compact.

And the WLP-4061/Yeast Bay Kolsch starter has finally reached FG @ 1.008, but I’ll let it go for another couple of days before crashing. It should settle out to at least 300-400 ml of thick slurry.

Followup:

Just got an email from Bryan at Great Fermentations. They're placing an order with Escarpment Labs on the 11th of this month, and they'll be ordering me two home brew pitches of Kolsch. So if you've been wanting to try some Escarpment Labs products, better hustle over to their website and melt some plastic before next Tuesday. Excellent customer service.