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Beer Microscopy Project

Category: Weird Science
Posted on: January 30, 2007 12:37 PM, by Shelley Batts

Long nights, sitting at the microscope, slide after slide.......don't you just wish you had a beer? Slurp slurp. Ahhhh, thats better. Wait, I wonder what *beer* would look like under the microscope! Let's try it!

I think thats what someone at Florida State thought when they decided to start this project, Molecular Expressions: The Beershots Photo Gallery, which has digital images of bunches of famous beers from around the world.

Chinese beer Tsingtao:
tsingtao.jpg

Pilsner Urquel:
purquel.jpg

Guinness:
guinness.jpg

Heineken:
hinney.jpg

You can buy prints, posters, and even a book. No money? There's a free screen saver. And if beer ain't your bag, baby, there's a whole other project for cocktails.

Find out how they did it here.

(HT: Jen)

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thats f'n awesome!

Posted by: steve | January 30, 2007 1:04 PM

Now that's some science I can appreciate!

Posted by: Orac | January 30, 2007 1:25 PM

I have a tie with a print of a microscopic photograph of red wine. Very handsome, and nobody ever recognizes what it is until I tell them.

Posted by: Scott Simmons | January 30, 2007 2:33 PM

Now I have to have a Guinness!

Posted by: xenophobic | January 30, 2007 9:03 PM

And I spent all my Friday nights in lab drinking my beer instead of looking at it under a microscope. I'm such a loser.
Beer is beautiful.

Posted by: Chemgeek | February 3, 2007 11:23 AM

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