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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.
Beer gooood!!!
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.
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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When you get drunk on a space station, does the room stop spinning?
The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.
because at $1400 for a glass of SpaceAle, I'm voting for "Free Beer" over "Free Speech".
Ah, how I love the human race ; )
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.
At last man can fianlly realize true projectile vomiting!
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
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!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Imagine pictures of Spock as the designated driver while Kirk and McCoy are out on the ship hull sucking in as much alchohol as possible.
Heck, it might even be in the Slashdot archives someplace
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
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).
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
you can't get beers in space, I will refuse to leave earth! :p
No, no, no! In space, you call it 'earthshine'.
Dyolf Knip
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
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.