Japanese Brewery Concocts Space Beer

Tom Goldman

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Japanese Brewery Concocts Space Beer



Sapporo is now taking orders for a new type of beer brewed with components not of this world.

If you thought the science experiments performed in space only involved spacesuit-wearing monkeys and tough math equations, think again. The Japanese arm of Sapporo is now selling beer brewed from hops and barley cultivated in the zero-gravity environment of space for five months.

The beer is called Sapporo Space Barley and will be limited to 250 six-packs of 330ml bottles. Its safety has been guaranteed, so it's unlikely to contain a symbiote that would at first give you spider powers and later take over your mind. Each six-pack will run ¥10,000, or about $110, with Sapporo only taking orders up to December 24, 2009. If you're really interested in trying to nab some, try visiting the Japanese Sapporo Space Barley web page [http://www.sapporobeer.jp/spacebarley/index.html]. It will apparently be divvied up by lottery.

While the idea of space beer seems like a novelty, the reality is that the cultivation of crops in space that can be used to brew beer just like on the surface of Earth is an advancement in scientific research. If humanity ever leaves Earth on giant spaceships, it'd be a disaster if we couldn't eat anything. To some, it'd be even more of a disaster if we also couldn't also get properly crunk.

(Via: Japanator [http://www.japanator.com/japanese-space-beer--12585.phtml])

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-Drifter-

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First thing I thought was "So it's regular beer. But the ingredients come from space.... I'll pass."
 

Mr. Grey

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The cost alone is what will make people think it tastes better and I'm not the kind of man that has ever fell for that.

The only thing I care about is the fact Japan thought it important to waste time brewing beer in space instead of trying to make the perfect couch for space to drink said beer upon.
 

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Tom Goldman said:
To some, it'd be even more of a disaster if we also couldn't also get properly crunk.
If "crunk" stands for (as I understand it) "crazy drunk," wouldn't this make you... "sprunk?"
 

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That's pretty cool. I wonder if it tastes any better because it's from space.


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Internet Kraken

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I imagine people would only buy this just so they can say "Yeah, this beer is pretty good. But it's not as good as space beer". Because as we all know, if something is from space it is instantly awesome. Even if it does probably just taste like normal beer.
 

Danpascooch

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You know, the ISS has complex water filtration systems for urine, they should just bottle it up instead, send it back down with the astronauts, sell it as a "space juice - Made in space!" and use it to fund more space programs.

and BAM! NASA is self sufficient.
 

lvl9000_woot

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Maybe I'll try this stuff after I finish my last bottle of Tactical Nuclear Penguin. Or maybe I should mix them together...hmm...
 

Nevyrmoore

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GRoXERs said:
Tom Goldman said:
To some, it'd be even more of a disaster if we also couldn't also get properly crunk.
If "crunk" stands for (as I understand it) "crazy drunk," wouldn't this make you... "sprunk?"
Maybe scrunk!

I will have to give it a pass, myself. The fact that it was made using ingredients grown in space isn't enough to justify paying around £68 for 6 bottles.
 

dalek sec

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Of course we drink in space, haven't you seen Battlestar Galactica?
 

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Man, for $110 this better taste a hell of a lot better than normal Sapporo.

...What does the fact that I'm giving this serious consideration say about me?