Spinach Beer

[elfs]

I mentioned some time ago that I was looking for a replacement beer for Stella Artois, a beer with obscene food-miles, and had found 1554 from the New Belgium Brewing Company of Colorado. Much closer. 1554 is not a replacement for Stella Artois; it has a very different flavor, but it's delicious in its own way.

Omaha and I went out to eat last night and one of the thing I ordered was a Mac & Jack African Amber, the restaurant's "house beer," and it was pretty good. Kinda complicated, kinda nice, touch of sweet and citrusy, but not too difficult.

I cruised through a few "beer review" websites and discovered, to my surprise, that Stella Artois is almost universally reviled as a "beginner beer." And as I read through the list of "recommendations" made to newbies, I realized that a lot of the people on these review sites weren't looking for the best-tasting or most drinkable brews; they were looking for bragging rights.

On the left hand, I suppose that it's okay that we've got so many microbrews and so much spare time on our hands that beer has started to reach the snootiness of wine. On the other hand, I can't stand the "Drink this, not because you'll like it, but because it'll be hard for you to wrap your head around." I want that from mathematics, not beer.

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[rfreebern.livejournal.com]

I drink my mathematics shaken over ice, with a splash of non-Cartesian bitters and a helical twist.

left or right?

[(Anonymous)]

I prefer my math neat (straight up?), in a Riemannian sort of way, with a coaster covered with one of Escher's "limits to infinity" or "circle limits" series... But then again I study complex dynamics for fun (or at least for some definition of fun).

I'm teaching multivariate calculus this term, and we just finished space curves - I can't get my students to understand these helices visually, and there's only so much you can do with Maple.

PS - I like Newcastle Brown Ale - but since I only drink about 6 a year, I think I can afford the miles on it.