Yes, "space beer" sounds like something you'd find in one of the more PG-13 rated episodes of The Jetsons, but unlike The Jetsons, space beer is now a reality. (Sorry if I burst the bubble of any Jetson diehards out there.)However, I'd be doing readers a great disservice if I didn't toss the word "kinda" in somewhere. Here's what went down: Sapporo has brewed and bottled a product called "Space Barley" -- a beer "brewed from barley cultivated in the International Space Station in 2006."
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not 100% buying what is so intergalactic about this beverage. Is my logic flawed to think this is equally ridiculous to a former astronaut giving birth and declaring her child a "space baby?" I mean, the barley seeds came from planet Earth, right? And then the beer was brewed on Earthly soil, correct?
I guess there is just no magic or sense of wonder left in me anymore. Call me when they brew something out of moon rocks.
[Photo Credit: sapporo.com]

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12-04-2008 @1:49PM Patrick said... If the child were conceived in space then that would be historic, and the kid would probably be known as 'space baby.' But yeah, this is pretty much just a gimmick.
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12-05-2008 @4:54PM Kristyn Pomranz said... I LOL'd.
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