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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.
Mmmmmm... orbital brew.....
sudo eat my shorts
You can imagine what the ISS would be like with a couple of tipsy astronauts/cosmonauts, etc.
No drinking and driving a space shuttle.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Sounds like they've already got an orbital microbrew.
They need to start thinking about macrobrewing, if you ask me.
If you got drunk and puked, and the puke wouldn't fall because of gravity than you could choke on it.
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I can't wait for thye first beer related accedent. We can start a chapter for
M - others
A - gainst
D - runk
D - Driveing -and-
A - sternaut
S - afety
S - tandards
Sounds like they've got 1000 microbrews already.
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Beer gooood!!!
I mean that would kinda suck. Although light is better than nothing I guess ...
pherris
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You may be too young to remember this beer commercial
It don't get no better than BISS!
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Think BISS!!
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Everybody meet me at that new microbrewery... Meet me at the elevators at 5:25, and we will take my plane
As if Coors wasn't light enough already
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Now a good second step would be to grow weed and later test it on a willing subject. Now that's an astronaut's diary I'd like to read.
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What if a small, personal, rotational bed type apparatus could be used to provide centripetal acceleration to the fluids.
Say, they could test it by giving beer to their mice. After all, they're used to the room spinning when they wake up.
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because at $1400 for a glass of SpaceAle, I'm voting for "Free Beer" over "Free Speech".
Ah, how I love the human race ; )
Answer: Party Pig
The Party Pig uses a self-expanding pouch to maintain pressure in a 2.25 gallon beer keg. Because it doesn't rely on adding carbon dioxide to maintain pressure, it is well suited for use in space.
BTW, I currently own 4 Party Pigs and a 20 gallon oak barrel, currently filled with a Belgian Lambic Ale.
A word of advice to all the /.ers under the drinking age. Don't take up home brewing Freshman year in college like me just because you can buy the supplies to make beer. Oops, did I just give you information? Please ignore the power of that information.
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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.
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In heaven there is no beer,
that's why we drink it here...
I mean, how could they get anyone to sign up for a three year trip if there wasn't going to be beer on board?
Damn, and here I was thinking that space wasn't good for anything except satellites and satellite accessories. Just think, this potentially has applications for everything from homebrewing to commercial zymurgy! Boy, keep on funding the space program, it's paying for itself EVERY GoDDAMNED DAY!
It's like the ants and tiny screws, that had applications for everything from watchmaking to watch repair!
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"Amerrican asstonaut beerr is bad" When interviewed by an international news agency.
Mmmmm... beer.
Now if they could only somehow smuggle potato chips on board. As long as they're not ruffled, and they don't clog the instruments.
Let's see... IIRC 1000 ml = 1 liter and 1 liter of water = 1 kg. There's 2.2 lb per kg and it costs $10,000 to lift 1 lb into orbit. It costs $22,000 to lift 1 kg or 1 liter into orbit or $22.00 per ml. Add to that the cost of hauling up the homebrew equipment that is one expensive brew.
"This beer better be the best tastin' beer in the world." - Barny Gumble
As a home brewer, though, I expect they'd have to go straight DME, as doing an all grain job would be quite a mess, sparging and all. Now there's something for NASA engineers to work out!
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..government funding hard at work!
can't fight against the youth.
If this was done by belgium people I could see the headlines :
Drunk pilot crashes Shulte in Atlantic, 5000L beer spilled in ocean!! Nasa will install breathezizers on shutle
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Well, I guess it's beer so who cares who good it tastes as long as it's cheap and potent, right?
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Now it's just a matter of time before they have the first *moonshine* still in space. Better watch out for revenooers!
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Beer must be considered very precious on the ISS.
"Alright, who drank the sample?!"
Remember "Bring 'em on"? *sigh
This post-graduate is a woman who has experience brewing beer...in space. If that isn't Mrs. Right, then I'll never meet her.
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So can anyone come up with an actual use for this? I am no expert on brewing or space travel and was wondering if there could be a practical use for this. Anyone?
"Patience is a virtue, afforded those with nothing better to do." - I don't remember
Can orbital microbrew be far behind? If one millilitre isn't a microbrew, I don't know what is.
As a raging alcoholic, I firmly advocate the utilization of multi-billion dollar technology to create an orbital version of a substance only slightly less common than water.
Duffman thinks the ISS needs a mascot! Hoh yeah! *thrust*
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It sounds like they used a bottom fermenting yeast... how would that have compared with a top fermenter? I personally don't drink heavily carbonated beers, prefering ales and *Guinness*. It's hardly a surprise that they used a bottom fermenting yeast consider Coors sponsored the event: they make a beer that uses carbonation as one of the mechanisms for hiding the flavour. (The other mechanism is of course refridgeration). I wonder if a top-fermenting yeast used in space would give a more carbonated ale? But, at the end of the day, this being Coors, they're looking at ways of increasing alcohol content without regard to taste (which is why brewers in Coor's league freeze their beers).
All you need is a giant space stomach for all that space beer in the evening and you can get some great propulsion in the morning.
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With proper respects to John Madden, I guess it's settled.
Less filling!
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There is already plenty of alcohol in space.
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we all know that alcohol as astronauts don't mix...this gives ``drunk driving'' a whole new meaning ;)
Nice to know that NASA has thier priorities straight. I wonder what napkin they dreampt this little venture on and when it is going on ebay?
Forget trying to build the IIS, I want to focus on getting beer up there. The really important stuff.
And I laughed when Jerry Sienfeld joked about bring a car to the moon; how it was the ultimate male idea. Brining a car to the moon so we coule drive around.
Now we have beer...guess they'll have to make it illegal to drive drunk on the moon aswell, before we have an accident.
"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality." -Jules de Gautier
i'm sure some of those naughty cosmonauts have been brewing the good stuff up there for years! share the wealth man...share the wealth. maybe they've found the best shot at making space profitable (read: sell us space beer. we pay money.)
Considering she worked for Coors, maybe she should first become interested in how beer is brewed on Earth.
If you're interested in beer on Earth, check out the Fremont Oktoberfest this weekend in Seattle!
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Space rocks, man!
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you can't get beers in space, I will refuse to leave earth! :p
When we're winning
We'll be singing
I get knocked down
But I dont give a shit
Cos in space there ain't no up or down
Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away
He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the better times:
"We could walk for ever
walking on
walking on the moon..."
I get knocked down
But I don't give a shit
Cos in space there ain't no up or down
Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away
He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the better times:
"This is ground control to Major Tom
Take your protein pill and put your helmet on..."
I get knocked down
But I don't give a shit
Cos in space there ain't no up or down
We'll be singing
When we're winning
We'll be singing
Time to send up some master brewers with a few tons of hops and malt. Let them play with various batches and send the "space brew" back to earth.
Hell, I'd pay about $100 for a drink of space brew if it had orbited the earth a few thousand times. NASA could send up the raw materials on cheap(er) rockets, and sell the brew for a good profit. A few thousand litres could pay for a shuttle flight.
the AC
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
It's NASA's new funding model. With Congressional support going down and other monies being directed to the "war", they thught they needed some other source of funds.... Soooo.... Next month the brewery module is being attached to the ISS. =;]
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Folks,
I think it's going to be one heck of a challenge to make alcoholic beverages in the microgravity environment of space.
The reason is simple: just about every alcoholic beverage requires the use of gravity to control the fermenting process. There will be no such thing as top-fermented (British-style) beer or bottom-fermented (Central European-style) beer, for starters.
I wouldn't be surprised that a major Germany brewery or a British brewery will sponsor a major test of how beer brews in space that will be run on the Columbus module on the International Space Station.
Space as in "beer", or space as in "between your ears"?
I guess it must be pretty easy to pour a black & tan in zero-grav, no?
The further someone is from the protection of Earth's atmosphere the more they are exposed to Solar radiation. One of the big problems with brewing beer is to keep the yeast the same - not have it mutating on you.
It seems to me that brewing in space without complete shielding would leave the process defenceless against producing a truly vile beer.
I'd be more impressed if they did some distilling. Moon moonshine would be an accomplishment and the process is dangerous/more daring.:)
IMHO, as per
J:)
Oh well, no point in steering now.
Does anyone know how beer bubbels in zero gravity?
Does it bubble at all? In if so... what will they do? Will the bubbles just float around at random, increasing in size by collision?
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