OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF BEER IN SPACE

It’s been a labour of love, a fine art – making a beer that can be enjoyed in the heavens as it is on Earth.

So what does the beer taste like? Well…out of this world! But seriously the baseline recipe is a dry Irish style Stout made with a seven-strong malt line-up. We picked a high flavoured beer as the baseline recipe (the original Earth version) to ensure that space travellers could enjoy the full flavour of beer we have become accustomed to on Earth, despite the human physiology challenges.

The aroma profile is of coffee, chocolate and caramel malts. These are matched on the palette with a full bodied, smooth finish and a balancing bitterness.

After having successfully created a tasty, high flavour beer that can be drunk in space, in September 2011, our mission then was to develop the technology that would allow space venturers to drink the beer from the bottle like their fellow land-dwellers (rather than the ‘squeeze’ packet designs that astronauts currently use for water and orange juice etc.). The biggest challenge being that Liquid’s inability to pour in zero gravity means that a special space beer bottle is required.