Quantum beer

Category 12 Brewing has used mathematical artwork of Uwe Grimm and colleague Michael Baake (Bielefeld) for their beer Bourbon Vanilla Quantum.

The label of Quantum is a computer-generated diffraction image of a three-dimensional point set with icosahedral symmetry. It has the same sort of structure of images obtained using electron diffraction by Nobel Prize winner Dan Shectman for his discovery of quasicrystals.

Uwe was a mathematician from the Open University who worked with Michael Baake on the subject of aperiodic tilings. He died unexpectedly in Autumn 2021.