Beer Microscopy Project

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:
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Pilsner Urquel:
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Guinness:
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Heineken:
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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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Shelly,
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you rock......

thats f'n awesome!

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.

By Scott Simmons (not verified) on 30 Jan 2007 #permalink

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.