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Wired.com thrills to Japanese megabrewer Sapporo's latest project: Sapporo Space Barley, a beer brewed with grains descended from barley that spent five months in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station.
Russian Academy of Sciences and Okayama University joined forces with Sapporo, who produced just 250 six-packs of the brew to be sold for 10,000 yen ($110) each to benefit educational programs for children.
�This beer will be sold for charity, to contribute to the promotion of science education for children and the development of space science research in Japan and Russia, through donation of all proceeds to Okayama University,� wrote Sapporo in a press release.
Wired.com isn't fooled by all this what-about-the-children rigmarole. They've deduced the real reason behind the project.
Also, what will astronauts drink on future extended spaceflight missions? They can�t take multiple years� worth of beer with them, so clearly they will have to brew it themselves. But what about the hops, you say? Don�t worry, those were launched into space in August. Super Space Beer!� Indeed, according to Sapporo, the space-barley research was done for �the purpose of achieving self-sufficiency in food in the space environment.� Because how self-sufficient could one really be without beer?
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