Beverages and Blades - Traditional of Course

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Here's some beer my daughter and her fiancé brought me from Minnesota when they came to visit us a couple of weeks before Christmas. I had more of the same when we recently visited them in St. Paul earlier this month for their wedding.

It's a quite tasty cold press stout (whatever that means) brewed with coffee from a local coffee vendor.

I tried to figure out the meaning of the back label on the can, but I think I failed. Looks like maybe the brewers are helpfully placing the stout in a 3 or 4-dimensional space based on important features of such brews, but I couldn't really interpret the graph(s).


- GT
 
My daughter got married the first Friday in May in St. Paul MN. The night before the wedding, there was a "rehearsal dinner" (even though there was no wedding rehearsal) at a German brewery/restaurant called Waldmann's near the Smith Street bridge (also called the High Bridge) over the Mississippi River. Here's a photo from our hotel room in downtown St. Paul, showing the High Bridge; Waldmann's is a couple of blocks from the righthand end of the bridge in the photo. (Sorry, I can't figure out why this photo has extra code around it - hasn't happened with any of my other pics from that website.)
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The following photo shows the last page of Waldmann's menu, describing some of the building's history. I found it to be very interesting. I don't have a photo of the pint of Dunkel Bier I ordered there, but it was excellent! The menu contained many choices of German cuisine that looked good to me, but I ended up ordering chicken salad because I needed the "roughage" in my traveling diet.


- GT
 
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btb01 said:
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I've read good things about Schlafly products from BF members who live relatively close to St. Louis, but I've never seen it in Michigan.

I wonder if Schlafly is related to mathematical Schläfli symbols, a notation for describing regular polytopes and tessellations. For example, in 3 dimensions, the notation {3, 3} denotes a regular tetrahedron (pyramid with triangular base) since that shape is composed of equilateral triangles as faces (the first 3 in the brackets) arranged with 3 triangles around each vertex (the second 3 in the brackets). Similarly, {5, 3} denotes a 3-D polyhedron composed of pentagonal faces (the 5), with 3 such faces at each vertex (the 3), commonly called a regular dodecahedron.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlä...ks-,Definition,a convex regular pentagon, etc.

And as long as we're thinking about various representations for regular polyhedra (and similar "creatures" in other dimensions), Schlegel diagrams are also cool ways to represent a 3-D object in a 2-D diagram, or a 4-D object in a 3-D "diagram". The results are very cool pictures!
(The name Schläfli always makes me think of the name Schlegel because they sound sort of similar and have related geometric connections.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlegel_diagram

- GT
 
In early May, on our way home from our daughter's wedding in St. Paul, MN, we stayed for a few days in a VRBO rental on a lake in Menasha, WI. I bought a 12-pack of a regional craft beer there. I thought it was a very good porter, and I brought most of the 12-pack home with me, so I've been occasionally enjoying 2 or 3 cans each week since then (had the last one late last week).


Here's the porter's "back label". My wife thought this was the perfect beer for me, since she claims both I and the porter have "thick rocky heads".


- GT
 
5K Qs said:
I've read good things about Schlafly products from BF members who live relatively close to St. Louis, but I've never seen it in Michigan.
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They do make some great beers, GT. I don’t think they have a wide distribution, maybe just a few surrounding states. They used to be available in Arkansas (after we had moved away), but the last few times we’ve been back I couldn’t find any there. I’ll definitely be bringing a few six packs back from this trip. :thumbsup:

We stopped in their Bottleworks location (which is closest to my brother’s place) yesterday.

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5K Qs said:
I wonder if Schlafly is related to mathematical Schläfli symbols, a notation for describing regular polytopes and tessellations. For example, in 3 dimensions, the notation {3, 3} denotes a regular tetrahedron (pyramid with triangular base) since that shape is composed of equilateral triangles as faces (the first 3 in the brackets) arranged with 3 triangles around each vertex (the second 3 in the brackets). Similarly, {5, 3} denotes a 3-D polyhedron composed of pentagonal faces (the 5), with 3 such faces at each vertex (the 3), commonly called a regular dodecahedron.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlä...ks-,Definition,a convex regular pentagon, etc.

And as long as we're thinking about various representations for regular polyhedra (and similar "creatures" in other dimensions), Schlegel diagrams are also cool ways to represent a 3-D object in a 2-D diagram, or a 4-D object in a 3-D "diagram". The results are very cool pictures!
(The name Schläfli always makes me think of the name Schlegel because they sound sort of similar and have related geometric connections.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlegel_diagram

- GT
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I think the last name of the guy who started the brewery was Schlafly. 🤣

Here’s a thread-appropriate pic from tonight’s Cardinal’s game.

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btb01 said:
They do make some great beers, GT. I don’t think they have a wide distribution, maybe just a few surrounding states. They used to be available in Arkansas (after we had moved away), but the last few times we’ve been back I couldn’t find any there. I’ll definitely be bringing a few six packs back from this trip. :thumbsup:
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I think the last name of the guy who started the brewery was Schlafly. 🤣

Here’s a thread-appropriate pic from tonight’s Cardinal’s game.

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Thanks for the Schlafly distribution info, Barrett. :):thumbsup:

Yeah, I figured the guy who started the brewery was named Schlafly, but I wondered if that had been the family name in "the old country". 🤓
Maybe the name had been Schläfli like the mathematician but was Americanized upon immigration. My paternal grandpa had the first name Geert (with sort of throat-clearing pronunciation of the G) in the Netherlands where he was born, but immigration officials told him his name is USA would be George.

Did you see the Cardinals/Pirates game on Tuesday? I saw highlights the next morning; looked like quite a pitchers' duel, including the Pirates' #1 draft choice last year, 100mph fastball rookie Paul Skenes.

- GT
 
Happened to notice that I have a photo from back in February that I don't think I've posted yet, so I'll do it now before I forget again.
Guinness Extra Stout is one of my favorite variations of "plain old" Guinness Stout, and the French barrel knife with oak covers has become one of my favorite knives.


- GT
 
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