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Find out more about Eli: According to Eli Shayotovich, beer is the elixir of the gods. It's a beverage made of hops, barley and a pantheon of other delicacies that when looked at properly - through beer goggles perhaps - has changed the entire course of human history. Eli is heavily involved in the craft beer world writing for various online and print publications. Aside from serving as the SoCo Beer Examiner, he writes the "Lower Front Range" column for the Rocky Mountain Brewing News and the beer blog Confessions of a Beer Geek (www.confessionsofabeergeek.com). Additionally, he's the VP of Content & Programming for Beer Tap TV (www.beertaptv.com). Needless to say, when he's not imbibing great craft beer, he's writing or talking about it somewhere." |
We may not have flying cars like the ones envisioned in the old Hanna-Barbera cartoon, The Jetsons, but don't think mankind is resting on their laurels. We do have the International Space Station.
And what have the astronauts and scientists been doing up there in the vacuum-y climate of deep space?
Making beer.
Barley used in a new space beer -- a collaborative effort between Japanese brewer Sapporo and Okayama University biologists -- is actually a third-generation offshoot from the original barley plant stored for five months inside a Russian lab on the space station. Sapporo has made 100 liters of the out of this world beer, named Sapporo Space Barley, but it's not for sale.
In January Sapporo will hold tastings of the world’s first space beer.... which apparently tastes just like regular beer. "Regular beer" being relative of course. But if you want to try some... don't hold your breath. Only thirty couples, selected via lottery, will be invited to the events at the company’s six plants from Hokkaido to Oita Prefecture. It's already been tested on both lab animals and Sapporo employees, so it should be safe to drink.
If you are one of the very lucky few who get a sample be sure to give me a shout. I want to know if this brew does in fact taste like "regular beer."
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