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11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy
minty3 writes "An 11-year-old Colorado boy may have found a way to literally make a beer that's out of this world. Michal Bodzianowski, a sixth grader at Douglas County's STEM School and Academy in Highlands Ranch, Colo., recently won a national competition where his beer-making experiment will be flown to the International Space Station." Noting that beer is safer than contaminated water, Bodzianowski pointed out that beer could be useful “in future civilization as an emergency backup hydration and medical source."
Why?
If it was suitably low alcohol it would be fine. Think 1% or so. Why not for grownups?
Stupid troll is stupid.
There are studies that claim that - http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/10/scientists-suggest-beer-after-workout/
The pathological aversion to any combination of children and alcohol is a Puritan thing that seems unique to the USA.
I live in wine country Australia, and the local high school not only has winemaking as part of the curriculum but the school has a cellar door. Wine sales 9am-3pm Mon-Fri.
My 8-year-old son can pick the difference between Syrah and Grenache.
I'll never forget my first family holiday to the USA, I would have been 15 years old. Sitting at a restaurant in Anaheim recovering from a day pounding the paths of Disneyland, waiter comes up to the table to take our drinks orders; when I got to me I asked "what beers do you have on tap here?" The waiter sputtered a bit in confusion then explained to me that he could not serve alcohol to a 15-year-old no matter what my preference of beer was. My parents just shrugged like "meh, when in Rome," and I had a soda.
Weird.
One of the thoughts I had was wort boiling in a vacuum, without using heat. I'd pay to see that!
Wouldn't help. It's the heat that isomerizes the alpha acids in the hops, not the fact that the water is boiling.
Now, you could use vacuum to do low-temperature distillation fairly easily.