A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer

fjordboy writes "After a hard days work and a couple of beers, don't we all really wonder what our draft would look like under thousands of times magnification? Maybe not, but after nine years of work and five million dollars, Michael Davidson of Florida State University has created a website of microscopic proportions that will satiate anyone's curiosity. His site, MolecularExpressions.com has galleries full of images of ordinary materials under extraordinary magnification. The list of materials includes beers from around the world, popular cocktails, snoopy and many more. The site has a wealth of images that are well worth a look. CNN has a brief description of the site and the work that went into it, but feel free to skip that and just gaze at an Irish favorite." Some pretty new galleries since the last time we mentioned it.

Intel QX3

[detritus`]

I'd love to know what modifications they did to this cool little toy, does anyone have any info on this? i searched the site but all they mention is the different light sources and filters they used, nothing about lenses and diffraction rings and such

beer imaged at miniscule dimensions...

[simonharvey]

it just makes you wonder what there is to research when academic instutions are paid millions to take pictures of things at micro-miniscule dimensions.

Zoom into everyday objects

[bhny]

This site [citesciences.fr] is great for zooming in on everyday objects

no beer, but check out the tooth

Self-Organizing Systems?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone have any idea why, when photographed, the various drinks appear to have some amount of order ? They all appear to have some order when you would think that fluid dynamics of a drink implies chaos, why the sudden transitions? why the crystal pattern? anyone care to enlighten me, since I'm a bit too drunk (read: bad with physics) to look anything up right now?

Re:So when one looks *reeeeally* close...

[Gyan]

No. When you looks really close, everything looks like it does [edge.org] on acid.

Re:Slashdotting comming soon

[OtakuHawk]

Hey! It's still up! Last time it failed around post 30.

Re:In other news....

[Wyatt Earp]

I had it, I'm cured.

Twice and cured twice.

Well sure, you can see it...

[DynaSoar]

...but what IS it?

Consider the fact that all alcohol is yeast excrement. That means that when you drink beer, you're participating in the "circle of life" at a very fundamental level.

Reproducible?

[jmichaelg]

I was wondering if the different beers look different by chance or if you took several pictures of each beer that you'd be able to say "Of course, that's a Guiness/Bud Light/whatever."

Re:Guinness is overrated

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Guinness might be overrated, but I still like it. What I've really been into lately in terms of stouts is this [brooklynbrewery.com], ever since my friend brought some back from New York. I took them up on their claim that it's "a stunning accompaniment to a chocolate dessert," and it turns out that the bitter aftertaste of it really does match surprisingly well with bittersweet dark chocolate.

...not that anyone will ever see this, since I didn't notice this story until right after it fell off the front page, but that's ok.