5/27/2008

Japanese SPACE BEER!

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The Nikkei reports that the Japan’s Sapporo brewery is going to brew a “space beer” in November. The photo shows Okayama University professor, Manabu Sugimoto (R), and his grad student Elena Shagenardanova (L) of Russia with a sheaf of “space barley” from the first generation of barley that was germinated on the Russian space lab.

Japan plans to brew ’space beer’ May 28 TOKYO (AFP) …

Sapporo To Make Beer From ‘Space Barley’: Nikkei/Wallstreet Journal May 27 14:14 (subscription link, sorry) .

READER UPDATE:
Fun Professor Sugimoto is also into SPACE WORMS!

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3 Responses to “Japanese SPACE BEER!”

Ranger Bill, Warrior of the Woodland Says:
May 27th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Hey Taro! Professor Sugimoto is also into SPACE WORMS!

Okayama school to check silkworms for space quirks
Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007 | The Japan Times Online
OKAYAMA (Kyodo) An Okayama elementary school launched a project Wednesday to research the effects of space travel on the growth of silkworms. Russian students are also taking part in the science project.
Students in the fifth grade at Higashiune Elementary School began raising ordinary silkworms Wednesday. Their growth rate will be compared with that of offspring from silkworms that orbited Earth for 12 days last month as larvae, said Manabu Sugimoto, an associate professor of Okayama University helping to run the project.
Taro Says:
May 27th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Japan plans to brew ’space beer’
Yahoo! News 2008May27
TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese brewery Tuesday said it was planning the first “space beer,” using offspring of barley once stored at the International Space Station.
Researchers said the project was part of efforts to prepare for a future in which humans spend extended periods of time in space — and might like a cold beer after a space walk. ….more…
MARKed TRAIL Says:
May 28th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Gee Taro that 100 bottles is just enough for your liquid lunch. :^)

Yahoo! News 2008 May 27 TOKYO (AFP) -
….”We want to finish the beer by November. It will be the first space beer,” Sapporo executive Junichi Ichikawa told reporters.
The company will have enough space grain to produce about 100 bottles of beer but has no immediate plan to make it a commercial venture, Sapporo officials said.