Beer in Space

Harder to make and serve than you would think:

Beyond the challenge of producing beer in space is the problem of serving it, says Jonathan Clark, a former flight surgeon and now the space medicine liaison for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in Houston, Texas, US.
Without gravity, bubbles don't rise, so "obviously the foam isn't going to come to a head", Clark told New Scientist.
The answer, Dutch researchers suggested in 2000, is to store beer in a flexible membrane inside a barrel. Air can be pumped between the barrel and the membrane, forcing the beer out of a tap. Astronauts could then use straws to suck up blobs of beer.

The last time I sucked beer through a straw was while nursing some facial scratches after a fun bout of rollerblading. I didn't need a second Guinness for quite a while...

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