Dec 7, 2008: Beer Crystals
 

The guys at The Florida State University, have some very neat toys. Big expensive toys for taking pictures of itty bitty things, like Beest does.

They have a website where they post lots of great pictures, up close and personal, of animal, vegetable, and mineral structures.

On this page they explain how they tried Polarized light microscopy then differential interference contrast microscopy with limited results. Next they tried freezing a thin sample which led to tons of problems in the florida humidity.
After considerable effort, they end up with, "seed crystallization technique with semi-hydrophobic seed crystals", which I can hardly get my head around but it sure makes pretty pictures.

http://cellar.org/2008/beer1.jpg
http://cellar.org/2008/beer2.jpg

They not only have beers from 30 different countries, but birthstones, drugs, brains, buckyballs, and a host of other cool stuff. :thumb:

No wonder I don't like Bud. That looks as awful as it tastes!

Dude, that is so four years ago.
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=6911

It's taken me four years to find out what the hell you were talking about. :p

In retrospect, I'm not sure I knew what I was talking about.:eek:

Drink enough of those purty beers and you won't care if you know what you're talking about. :)

Or care. :haha:

[insert image of Homer Simpson drooling here]

beest hasn't seen the images yet, but says he's "not impressed because they're artificially seeded" :rolleyes:

It's looks like Corona is made from peacocks, Bass from tar and Lucozade, and Beck's from acid.

Y'know, when I read the thread title I thought someone had invented 'instant beer' crystals that could be added to water like instant coffee.

There's a Nobel Prize waiting for the first guy to do it.;)

Bud is okay. The pic of Bud is that also, just okay. Corona...I love Corona. I love the pic of Corona. I've never tried Carlsberg, but based solely on it's pic, I'm gonna.:beer:

That there Carl's Berg beer shore nuff do be purty.

Reminds me of those drink molecule ties.

The technical page I linked explains they decided to go with seed crystallization technique, because it gave the greatest variety of pictures. The other methods provided little difference, and this being a fun project rather than a scientific one, they were after as many pretty pictures as possible. The rest of the site has plenty of scientifically accurate pictures.

Oh, and tell beest he's a microscopy snob. :lol2:

i did.


he told me to STFU because he'd suceeded in connecting his laptop to the record player. (yes, vinyl)

Bwahahaahaa

I love it when nerds fight.