Sapporo Space Beer 28.05.08
What wacky innovation will those industrious Japanese boffins come up with next? “Space Beer” apparently. Japanese brewery Sapporo has announced it’s planning to brew a beer made from third generation barley grains that have spent five months on the International Space Station in 2006.
It’s supposedly not being created to allow space station inhabitants to go on the lash, but rather as part of a project to prepare for a future in which humans spend extended periods of time in space and need to grow food.
Sapporo hope to have the beer finished by November, but as they only have enough “space grain” for 100 bottles it’s unlikely to be available to the public. You can read more about this here.
Via Japan Probe