Science | Subscribe Posted by Michael Pinto on Dec 19, 2008 in Hobbies and Collections

What happens when a top flight international team of biochemists and rocket scientists get together? The answer is Space Beer! The brew was created with barley grown on the International Space Station:

Space beer lands in Japan

“Space Beer, the result of a five-month mission to boldly grow, where almost no one has grown barley before, has landed in Japan. The adult beverage, brewed from barleycorn cultivated in the International Space Station in 2006, has splashed down courtesy of the Russian Academy of Science, a Japanese university and beer giant Sapporo.”