Watching the Mind Watching the Body
Keeping Together Brewery and Beverage Garden
- From:
- Keeping Together Brewery and Beverage Garden
- New Mexico, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 7.8%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.42 | pDev: 2.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 12, 2023
- Added:
- Dec 09, 2021
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Watching the Mind Watching the Body is a 7.8% ABV saison made with Michigan pears, Chaat Masala, and honey. The nose presents with aromas of honey poached pear, sweet brioche, crystallized ginger, and savory spice front and center. The spice character features soft notes of black pepper, cumin, allspice, and fennel. On the palate this beer drinks much like a skin-contact white wine, with deep fruit flavors of dried apricot, baked quince, and candied orange, overlaid with a delicate apple blossom-like floral character. Low bitterness and mild to moderate acidity balance pleasant, mellow alcohol warmth. The body is medium-full with a silky mouthfeel, and offers gentle, lightly sparkling carbonation.
A note from KT Artist Jessica Deahl @jdeahl — "This label is an exploration of nostalgia, layers of shadows and distant memories that are just out of reach. We used an interplay of found photography, texture, and color to balance modern and vintage elements. It’s mean to feel surreal, dreamlike, and intangible."
A note from KT Artist Jessica Deahl @jdeahl — "This label is an exploration of nostalgia, layers of shadows and distant memories that are just out of reach. We used an interplay of found photography, texture, and color to balance modern and vintage elements. It’s mean to feel surreal, dreamlike, and intangible."
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
4.35/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.35/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
2021 vintage; drank 11/10/22 @ Half Acre.
Mostly see-through orange appearance.
A small white head; almost no lace.
Pear cider notes in the nose.
Medium thin mouthfeel.
Pear & a hint of masala up front; mild honey smooths over the finish.
Elegant, sophisticated & delightful. A home run.
Nov 14, 2022Mostly see-through orange appearance.
A small white head; almost no lace.
Pear cider notes in the nose.
Medium thin mouthfeel.
Pear & a hint of masala up front; mild honey smooths over the finish.
Elegant, sophisticated & delightful. A home run.
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.31/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Had on tap. Murky goldenrod pour, white ring and webbing. Pear, peach, sweet bread, a touch of ginger, and mildly funky saison yeast make up the nose. Taste has pear as the clear star, apple, white grape, honey dipped orange, sweet brioche like yeast with a rustic edge, then finishing kiss of funk. Smooth with a slightly more sour than yeasty feel, bright, light, and mildly funky given it is a little wetter
Nov 03, 2022
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.45/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.45/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
On tap at Half Acre Brewing – Balmoral Taproom in Chicago, IL.
This one pours a slightly hazy golden orange color, with a small head, and a little bit of lacing.
This smells like white wine, sweet bready malt, stone fruit, pear, lime zest, black pepper, and grassy funk.
Pears, chaat masala, and honey is a very intriguing ingredients list for a saison, and it pretty much works dead on here. The spice character feels like black pepper and lemon/lime here, with a nice caramelized and sticky pear flavor, and a slightly funky honey and grassy note. There’s also apricot, and a sweet doughy malt sweetness.
This is light bodied, crisp, and with only a very slight acidity.
This is super creative, and all the odd parts come together really well here.
Jul 29, 2022This one pours a slightly hazy golden orange color, with a small head, and a little bit of lacing.
This smells like white wine, sweet bready malt, stone fruit, pear, lime zest, black pepper, and grassy funk.
Pears, chaat masala, and honey is a very intriguing ingredients list for a saison, and it pretty much works dead on here. The spice character feels like black pepper and lemon/lime here, with a nice caramelized and sticky pear flavor, and a slightly funky honey and grassy note. There’s also apricot, and a sweet doughy malt sweetness.
This is light bodied, crisp, and with only a very slight acidity.
This is super creative, and all the odd parts come together really well here.
Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio
4.64/5 rDev +5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.64/5 rDev +5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Foggy pale orange to maize with a puffy and lumpy tall white head settling to an uneven blanket clinging in curled ridges.
First impression is an excellent level of mildly bretty yet herbal funk. Mid-palate brings a balancing influence of sweet pear and honey lending subtle but consistent accents. The spice perhaps bolsters the bone dry finish and adds a hint of a kick in the swallow, but as always, Averie exercises her expertly deft of hand restraint with all of these ingredients.
This is both amazingly complex and absurdly refreshing.
Jun 20, 2022First impression is an excellent level of mildly bretty yet herbal funk. Mid-palate brings a balancing influence of sweet pear and honey lending subtle but consistent accents. The spice perhaps bolsters the bone dry finish and adds a hint of a kick in the swallow, but as always, Averie exercises her expertly deft of hand restraint with all of these ingredients.
This is both amazingly complex and absurdly refreshing.
Reviewed by emerge077 from Illinois
4.41/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.41/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Opened with barely a “pfft”, and poured with large bubbles that faded in seconds. As I feared, the bottle is nearly flat. Bright bronzed gold with a still surface. The etched Duvel glass produces nothing in the way of bubbles. Judging by the foamy glasses on Untappd, i’d guess this was an isolated incident. May wait til Spring to open my other bottle.
Stonefruit aroma, juicy pear and peach with some pastry crust and faint spiced apple in the background. A hint of brie rind funk.
Juicy and tart, fruity pulp of lemon, pear, peach, and grapefruit. Some lightly grippy tannin in the aftertaste. Medium bodied, supple vinous feel, manageable acidity like a naturally tart apple. Crisp and bracing, though the beer is still without carbonation. Not unlike a Basque sidra or unblended Belgian lambic. Edit: Second bottle was fully carbed, first was an isolated one.
Overall this was a complex and enjoyable beer, even without carbonation.
2023: Draft was exceptional, easily the best aged of all 5 at the Keeping Together guided tasting event that Averie Swanson hosted at Half Acre.
Dec 18, 2021Stonefruit aroma, juicy pear and peach with some pastry crust and faint spiced apple in the background. A hint of brie rind funk.
Juicy and tart, fruity pulp of lemon, pear, peach, and grapefruit. Some lightly grippy tannin in the aftertaste. Medium bodied, supple vinous feel, manageable acidity like a naturally tart apple. Crisp and bracing, though the beer is still without carbonation. Not unlike a Basque sidra or unblended Belgian lambic. Edit: Second bottle was fully carbed, first was an isolated one.
Overall this was a complex and enjoyable beer, even without carbonation.
2023: Draft was exceptional, easily the best aged of all 5 at the Keeping Together guided tasting event that Averie Swanson hosted at Half Acre.
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