Proving once again why Russian cosmonauts are the Celica to American astronauts’ Corolla, these brave souls have finally found a space station experiment worth toasting: growing barley and brewing it into beer back on Earth.
The Russian Academy of Science partnered with Okayama University (Japan) and the Sapporo brewing company, which proves that beer can unite even the staunchest of rivals. Who could forget Tsarist Russia’s humiliating defeat by the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905? Anyone with a zero-G buzz.
Thanks to this successful effort, the possibility of space rice wine (Sake!) has been proposed by Japan. Of course, the Russians are looking at growing potatoes in the near future.