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Japan to brew space station beer
Japanese brewer Sapporo announced plans to brew beer with barley from the International Space Station using the offspring of barley that once called the International Space Station home.
“It will be the first space beer,” Sapporo executive Junichi Ichikawa told reporters.
The company said it has enough grain to make roughly 100 bottles of space beer but does not have plans to make it a commercial venture. Read the full story here …
South Korea’s first astronaut, Yi So-Yeon, brought kimchi into space last month, while Japan has previously sent noodles into orbit. Some day we may have space noodles and space kimchi to look forward to with our space beers? Mmmm mmmmm good.
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