At The Still Point Of The Turning World
Keeping Together Brewery and Beverage Garden

Mixed culture saison brewed with Sugar Creek Malt Co. locally-malted buckwheat, rye, barley, and oats; hopped with EKG, Citra, Centennial, Hersbrucker, and Simcoe. Aromas of dried pineapple, nectarine, and unripe strawberry with hints of white tea and peppercorn. Old World hops offer delicate floral notes of geraniums or calla lilies. On the palate, flavors of tangerine, lemon curd, and kiwi overlay a rustic malt profile of drop biscuits and cream crackers. Buckwheat lends a light funk that integrates nicely with the fruit-forward fermentation profile. Medium in body with creamy carbonation; bright acid on the palate balances the bitterness in a dry finish. (5.6% ABV)⠀

This is the first “official” collaboration for KT—brewed with a dear friend, one of the brilliant minds behind Escarpment Labs in Ontario, Richard Preiss. We wanted to make a beer that incorporated both Old World and New World hops; ingredients that intersected the traditional and contemporary. We made this beer on March 13th, 2020—right before Chicago went into lockdown. That day lives in my memory as the turning point from pre-pandemic world into the world we exist in now. In hindsight, the creative origin is a rather poignant metaphor—the beer was made at a moment in time that represented both the old world we knew, and a new world we couldn’t fully understand. Inspired by T.S. Eliot's, Burnt Norton, I look back on that day as “The Still Point of the Turning World”, a moment of presence where past and future existed simultaneously as abstracts, uncharted and uncertain.⠀

From KT Artist Jessica Deahl — "We created this art nouveau-esque label, inspired by T.S. Eliot’s ever-relevant ode to the nature of time. It became a visual articulation of the concepts of “lush” and “green,” using dizzying patterns of leaves and flowers, both permanent and fleeting."⠀