Keeping Together

Keeping Together x Fast Fashion Tap Takeover Event⁠
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Wednesday, January 19th ⁠5-9pm⁠
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Join us as we celebrate the Chicago release of Fast Fashion and Keeping Together’s collaboration, “Reality is an Atmosphere: Centennial”. ⁠
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Joining us will be...⁠
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Averie Swanson - Founder + Beer Maker of Keeping Together⁠
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And⁠
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Matt Storm - Co-Founder of Fast Fashion⁠
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Beers:⁠
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Fast Fashion x Keeping Together⁠
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Reality is an Atmosphere: Centennial “Belgian Pale Ale brewed with Regal Ranch whole cone Centennial, Motueka and Tradition”⁠
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Fast Fashion⁠
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Double Bagel Mode⁠
“West Coast Double IPA brewed with Freestyle Nelson Sauvin and Tallus”⁠
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I Wish I Was Taller⁠
“DDH IPA with Citra and Idaho 7”⁠
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Keeping Together:⁠
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Dreaming of a Common Language⁠
“Saison dry-hopped with Hallertau Tradition, Tettnanger, and Saaz Hops.”⁠
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The Grace of Maybe⁠
“The Grace of Maybe is a 6.0% ABV mixed fermentation saison brewed with lemongrass, re-fermented on white and yellow peaches, and finished with Madagascar vanilla beans”⁠
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We Are Not The Counter Culture⁠
“We Are Not The Counter Culture is a 6.2% ABV mixed fermentation saison brun lagered for 8 weeks and conditioned with wildflower honey.”

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KEEPING TOGETHER — A MUTUAL SURRENDER

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."

Bottles will be available for sale ($18/750mL) at @halfacrebeer Balmoral (2050 W Balmoral Ave, Chicago, IL 60625) as of tomorrow Thursday, February 17th. Online ordering is no longer available.

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✨THE TIME HAS COME✨ The final Keeping Together release is scheduled for next Friday, March 18th! To celebrate, we will have *almost* all the KT beers that have been released thus far available on draft or in bottle to be enjoyed onsite @halfacrebeer (2050 W Balmoral Ave, Chicago, IL 60625). The final release beer (details forthcoming) will be available when the taproom and shop opens at 11am, but from 6-10pm we will be hanging out in the Bowtruss event space drinking saison! I look forward to celebrating with y'all! ⠀

Though this is the last beer that I will be releasing here in Chicago, and it is bittersweet to say the least, this is not the end! Keeping Together is in the process of relocating operations to the beautiful state of New Mexico, and I am very excited to get back to brewing as soon as possible. I hope to share more news on this front soon!⠀

It is hard to put into words just how incredible my time in Chicago has been. The people here are one of a kind, and the Chicago beer scene is objectively one of the very best in the world. The opportunity to learn from folks in the beer industry here has been one of the most inspiring and humbling experiences I have ever had, and I am so very grateful for all of it. Thank you to everyone here in Chicago for holding space for me to rediscover what saison (and beer in general) can be. I will be forever in your debt. ❤️