Japanese space beer
Sapporo’s space beer is finally ready for consumption:
The brewer will receive orders for the Sapporo Space Barley beer via the Internet until Dec. 24, making 250 six-packs, holding 330-ml bottles, available at a price of ¥10,000 each, Sapporo said Thursday, adding the product will be delivered to customers in late January. Proceeds will be used for the promotion of science education.
The original barley seeds were stored for five months in the Russian module of the International Space Station.
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100 dollar beer…no thanks, I’d rather buy a space suit, put it on and drink a normal beer.
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about 20 bucks a beer … using the current exchange rate and the fact it is a 6 pack
Yes I know that is still a crazy price (personally would prefer 20 beers instead)
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Oh God, how gimmicky.
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Oh God, how gimmicky.
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Oh God, how gimuly.
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in this economy – well i guess people have to put on a show that they can afford something like this. sick.
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Strange Brew…
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Not so sick when you consider they are donating all the profits from this (admitted) gimmick to science education programs for kids and space science research in Japan & Russia…
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=29748 (English)
http://www.sapporobeer.jp/spacebarley/index.html (Japanese)
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i am so happy to learn that the money from selling this beer is being put to good use. science and space science research for japanese AND russian school children?!?!?
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Yeah I guess if you have the money buy it, but if you look at things seriously we are all in space so all beer is space beer.
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This must have been inspired by Cosmic Sake, brewed from yeast that spent some time in space, in the Russian Soyuz space station:
http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2006_7.html
wonder when they’ll make Cosmic Vodka
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This must have been inspired by Cosmic Sake which was brewed from yeast that spent time in the Russian Soyuz space station in 2005:
http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2006_7.html
I wonder when they’l make cosmic vodka.
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i don’t know the meaning of the website.