Space Beer Headed for Zero Gravity Bar

[bananas]

http://www.space.com/news/testing-space-beer-100927.html

Space Beer Headed for Zero Gravity Bar
By Denise Chow
SPACE.com Staff Writer
posted: 27 September 2010

It may not come in time for Oktoberfest, but the world's first beer to be certified for consumption in space will soon undergo tests in weightlessness to see if it is brewed with the right stuff.

Astronauts4Hire, a non-profit space research corporation, will conduct the tests on an Australian beer that has been brewed specifically for easy drinking in both microgravity environments, as well as here on Earth.

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The development of space beer is intended to coincide with the burgeoning space tourism industry, and as the market expands, industry leaders are anticipating a demand for such products.

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Testing for the new space beer is set to begin in November on board Zero Gravity Corporation's modified Boeing aircraft, which flies a series of parabolic arcs that simulate environments of weightlessness.

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[sakabatou]

1. Soon to come: Syntha-hol.

[customerserviceguy]

2. We've already got space beer

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. 'Carbonation'? There's the problem. They're drinking crap beer.

"Other studies have examined the type of container that would be needed to maintain the drink's carbonation in spite of the extreme pressure and temperature changes that accompany a ride into space"

Just send up a barrel of real ale. No need to worry about the pressure it comes out at in a zero-gravity environment, since there hardly is any. And unless they're thinking of strapping the barrel to the outside of the spacecraft, I don't see where the "extreme pressure and temperature changes" are.