Posted on 05/20/2017 7:33:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
f and when Lunar or Martian colonies become a reality, will the colonists be able to brew and enjoy their own beer? Or will imported beer be the only thing available to them? That’s the question a team of bioengineering students from the University of California San Diego sought to answer. As finalists who competed in the Lab2Moon competition being held by TeamIndus, they combined their love of beer with their love of space exploration.
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The Lab2Moon competition was held in order to see a youth experiment brought to the Moon aboard that spacecraft. And while their experiment did not take home the top prize, their final prototype will still be going into space. Thanks to Synergy Moon, who won an XPrize verified launch contract, the experiment will be launched aboard a rocket this December (the planned launch date si currently Dec. 28th, 2017).
For the sake of their experiment, the UC San Diego team – all undergraduates with the Jacobs School of Engineering – sought to test if yeast would be viable in a Lunar environment. As the key ingredient in the production of beer (and many other beneficial things), thieir experiment sought to determine if Lunar colonists will be capable of becoming their own brewmasters.
Their team name is “Original Gravity”, a delicious pun that alludes to both brewing and the Lunar conditions they are investigating. In the case of brewing, Original Gravity (OG) is the measure of sugars dissolved in the wort (the beer before it is fermented). In the case of the Moon, it refers to the fact that Lunar gravity is just 0.165 times that of Earth’s, which could affect the behavior of the microorganisms like yeast.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
Finally, some useful low g research....
I propose another equally worthwhile study. Will women in a moon colony need bras?
Well, it’s about time that we saw some news regarding a truly worthwhile research project. :=)
Tell Hawking I’m ready now!
Picture Susan Sarandon floating past you naked, in micro-gravity.
Which means that it will be ‘low gravity’ beer. :)
They should try to develop the beer version of Tang.
I’d like to see moonshine being made on the moon.
Just take a micro brewery with you. Don’t you use a micro brewery in micro gravity?
Problem solved.
I crack me up.
5.56mm
With such beer, Moon colonists would barley be able to survive.
Yeah, forget cold fusion or perpetual motion machines.
This is freakin’ serious stuff! /no sarc
“How solemn and beautiful is the thought that the earliest pioneer of civilization, the van-leader of civilization, is never the steamboat, never the railroad, never the newspaper, never the Sabbath-school, never the missionary — but always whiskey!”
Mark Twain
Hold muh beer...don’t want it to float off and go orbital on me...
Conducting fermentation reactions in zero G environments seems like reasonable research actually.
Picture Susan Sarandon floating past you naked, in micro-gravity ... gently bouncing towards you with your fav Martian micro-brew in each hand.
After all, you can only take so much beer with you to the moon....
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