"space beer" news and stories

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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