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Beer In Space
Saint Aardvark writes: "Check it out...NASA recently sent up an experiment to see how well beer could be brewed in space. The result? One millilitre of space brew. Can orbital microbrew be far behind?" They've been making great strides since our first Beer in Space article.
My tax dollars are paying for WHAT???
Your tax dollars may be subsidizing it, but the experiment was apparently paid for by a grant from Coors. It went up in one of NASA's commercial experiment packs.
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
A pissy lager with 5% alcohol content is not natural. This can only be achieved by freezing the beer and removing the ice, thus artificially raising the alcohol content. Beer brewed naturally with high alcohol content is much harder to produce. In my opinion/experience, anything above 7% is not nice: either sickly sweet (try Roger and Out @12.5% at the Frog and Parrott in Sheffied, England) or just nasty like Carlsberg Special Brew or Tenents Super. Most beers with a lot of flavour that are popular don't have high alcohol content, e.g. Guinness is at 4.2%. It's so sad, beer is sold on alcohol content as computers are sold on CPU MHz. Oh well, each to their own.