Water, barley, malt, LSD...

Lock your door. Dim the lights. Light the candle. Find Track 9 on your old "Division Bell" Pink Floyd CD. Now crack open a cold one and prepare to watch the pretty colors.

This is a picture of your Bud Light taken through a microscope. Beer is a complex and heterogeneous mixture that contains a wide variety of low and high molecular weight carbohydrates, minerals, alcohol, trace amounts of protein, yeast by-products and other compounds that make everyone around you better looking over time. One glance here and you'll see why.

Trust us. You'll never look at beer the same again.

The composition of beer varies widely with brewing techniques. That's why the images below are all a little different. The biggest variable is the nature of their carbohydrate content (which is typically associated with concentration). Polarized light is used to capture the brilliantly colored crystalline patterns that are found in the beer. Those frozen crystallites are oftentimes placed directly on a microscope slide and then photographed. Sometimes the beer is converted into a fine mist and sprayed onto a smooth silicon surface to be photographed, but that seems like nothing but a waste of liquid gold to us.

Enjoy your trip.

Coors Light


Miller


Miller Lite


Sam Adams' Triple Boc


Lone Star

(and you wonder why Lone Star tastes like crap...)