This video is pretty awesome. Taking a trip through Japan’s rich cultural heritage, this video gives you a glimpse of the brewing process behind Sapporo. It may not be how it’s actually brewed, but if the creators of Avatar met with the creators of Kung Fu Panda and Fern Gully, and then they went to the Wonka Factory to see how the Oompa Loompas took an ordinary task and made it absolutely fascinating to watch, this is what they would envision. Continue Reading »

Updating from our last blog about space beer: The brew has finally arrived. To recap, the beer was brewed from barley grown in micro-gravity on the International Space Station. Sapporo, Japan’s Okayama University and the Russian Academy of Science are now the owners of 100 liters of some of the most unique beer ever brewed. Unfortunately it isn’t for sale, but it is said that Sapporo is giving tastings to a few lucky Earthlings. One of the next projects could be to grow potatoes, and we all know the most beloved Russian spirit vodka can be made from that vary ingredient. Lets look forward to the days of cheap space travel and home brewed space beverages.

Two hundred miles straight up, traveling at 17,000 miles per hour and circumventing the earth over fifteen times a day, is the International Space Station or Sapporo Space Brewing HQ. The largest brewery in Japan has taken brewing to new heights, literally. Sapporo’s, newest concept is beer from barley grown in space. Sapporo has taken the third generation of barley plants that were originally budded on the International Space Station and has enough to create about a hundred bottles of the “Space Brew”. No word yet, when and if it will be available for public consumption, but if it is the zero-g beer should cause quite a stir. To say the least, this technique is pretty far out, but it shows the lengths that brewers are willing to go to push craft brewing to its limits.