Zero Gravity High Gravity Beer

Yeast In Space, now there is a project that deserves some taxpayer money.

 

Belgian brewers sent some yeast into space with the shuttle during the early 1990's to see how they behaved, as described in Papazian's "Homebrewers Companion".

 

Far out, that would be out of this world.

 

I see the gravity of the situation...get back to work

 

The first thing that comes to mind is that as the yeast produces CO2, the CO2 wouldn't be buoyant and float out the top, it would just become a bigger and bigger foamy mess.

 

Too bad NASA ain't doin' squat these days.

 

I have a new take on the term hop rocket now.

What's boiling temp in space? It's got to be under 100F. Maybe not in s pressurized space shuttle, but--the boil is going to be quite messy anyway.

 

They'll need someone who is bold, young, adventurous, and of course, good looking, who knows how to brew, and is willing to be blasted into space with their homebrew kit, some water, yeast, hops, and some grains. We'll have to adapt my kit a little for the no-gravity thing, and I'll need a TV and some beer and wings for the waiting periods...

 

At this point due to the current NASA budget you'll probably have to get Redbull to fund this idea.