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.
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When I think of my mom, two things usually don't come to mind: beer and Frank Zappa. Which made it odd earlier this week when I opened an email to find she had sent me the following quote: "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
It's not as cool a it sounds. They won't be brewing the beer in space, or even using ingredients grown on space. Sapporo brewers are going to use barley grown (on earth) from 
Even though it's been sold in Japan for more than 50 years, Coca-Cola has only just received trademark recognition for its iconic bottle. The elongated hourglass bottle became a registered U.S. trademark in 1960 and is honored by Russia and China, among other nations.
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