A Mutual Surrender
Keeping Together Brewery and Beverage Garden

A Mutual Surrender is a 7.3% ABV saison made with spent wine grapes, rested in oak, and conditioned with honey. The Cabernet Franc and Merlot wine grapes refermented in the last Keeping Together release—Creatures of Infinite Contradiction—still retained a ton of life after racking that beer off the skins, so I decided to send some young saison onto the spent grapes for a second extraction of color and flavor. The beer sat on the skins for a quick contact time (24 hours) before being racked off and sent to oak barrels to mature. This rosé-like beer offers primary aromas of bright red fruit—overripe strawberries, red currant, and tart cherry. Oak presents itself with soft aromas of vanilla marshmallow and toasted coconut overlaying notes of pink peppercorn and faint barnyard hay. On the palate, this beer showcases more of the same fruit character, but brings additional depth. Flavors of strawberry candy, salted watermelon, and raspberry seed dominate. This beer drinks with a medium body and soft, sparkling carbonation; the acidity is bright and electric and provides balance to a dry and lightly tannic finish.

A note from KT Artist Jessica Deahl @jdeahl — "This label art is our attempt to honor the confounding liquid inside—mysterious overlays of found photography and hand drawn texture with soft blush pink and peach colors. It is movement and dynamism in a still expression, something familiar but totally new."