In 2006, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Okayama University, and Sapporo Beer conducted experiments involving wheat seeds sent into space. The wheat spent five months aboard the International Space Station, and now it can spend a few hours in your stomach! The fourth generation of that space barley has become Space Barley beer, but if you want it, you’d better head over to the Sapporo Space Barley website (and learn Japanese while you’re there). Also, you’d better be lucky.
The Space Barley beer is limited to only 250 six packs, which are going to sell for $110 US dollars or 10,000 Japanese yen. It’s not the most expensive or the most alcoholic beer, but you have to admit it’s pretty cool to drink space suds. Plus, you can be only one of 1500 people (assuming every individual beer goes to a different person) to drink it, and rarity counts.
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