Now if you’ve followed the posts here on ReducedMass, you might have noticed me missing for a few days, only to resurface and explain it away with beer-drinking, so surely, news about a space-beer could not be more fitting. Of course it is the Japanese, the makers of countless gadgets and weird TV-shows, that bring us the space-beer.

And it’s not just a name slapped on a product either, like the infamous space-pen that ruled the infomercials in the 90’s (although it is used in space), no this is actually a beer, made out of barley that was grown in space! Now obviously there are many other ingredients needed to make a beer, all of which will sadly be made under a boring gravity field on earth, but non-the-less, this is as close to space-beer as we’ll get for now.

Sadly this is not something you and I will be able to buy (unless you’re filthy rich) as they will only make around 100 bottles, because they only have enough barley for that. The ones that will be in charge of brewing those 100 space bottles, is the Japanese brewery Sapporo holdings, and i must say, i like the cut of their jib, just check out their reason for wanting to brew it.

Researchers said the project was part of efforts to prepare for a future in which humans spend extended periods of time in space — and might like a cold beer after a space walk.

Maybe it’s just me, but i sure as hell look forward to the day when i can take a casual spacewalk and have a space-brewed beer to wind down, who’s with me?

Original story: Yahoo! News.