Sapporo space-beer ready for taste test
Hey, remember that batch of beer Sapporo was brewing from grain grown in orbit? Well, apparently it’s ready for taste-testing. Unfortunately it won’t be on store shelves, so it’ll likely end up gathering dust after being sampled by a bunch of high-connected drunkards with ties to the Japanese hooch industry.
“There’s really no beer like it because it uses 100 percent barley. Our top seller is the Black Label brand, using additional ingredients such as rice. This one doesn’t, and is really a special beer,” Junichi Ichikawa, managing directory for strategy at Sapporo breweries, told a news conference on Tuesday.
Cosmonaut Boris Morukov, who spent 11 days in space himself, says barley joins wheat, lettuce and peas as space station produce, noting potatoes may take root in future studies, although not to make an equally famous Russian beverage.
“I think we would try to grow potatoes as food, not for vodka production,” Morukov said.
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