E50 Let's Go Space Drinkin'

Home Brew Rock Stars Podcast

if you like UFO’s, Astronauts, Space Travel, Black Holes and beer, the theme for our 50th episode is music and beer in space as the US celebrates the 50th anniversary of the day a we put a man on the moon. We drink from a list of space themed beers, chat remote with "unsilent" Jay" and listen to samples from the new album from Name the Moon called Space Force. That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

MIXTAPES: We talk about a record producer named Mickey Kapp, who after forging a somewhat improbable connection with several Mercury 7 astronauts, went on to provide later space explorers with customized mixtapes to listen to during their historic flights thanks to José Jiménez, a fictional comic character with a thick south-of-the-border accent who was created by the comedian Bill Dana. Mickey died at 88 on June 11 at his home in Carmel, Calif.

SPACE DRINKIN?: Two of its astronauts had flown three sheets to the ozone in 2007, NASA formally banned crews from imbibing in orbit. It’s equally sobering to note that carbonated beverages are outlawed on the International Space Station. Gas bubbles in a carbonated drink don’t act the same as on gravity-rich Earth. Instead of floating to the top, the bubbles lie there, evenly distributed in the liquid. To rework the lyrics of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” the head on a brewski poured from a tin can far above the world would float in a most peculiar way.

SPACE BEER: 2014, Ninkasi Brewing Company, an independent craft brewery based in Eugene, Oregon, set its sights on a beer launch like no other and in July 2014, the Ninkasi Space Program (NSP) took flight. The mission: send brewer’s yeast to space and return it to Earth to brew a deliciously out-of-this-world beer. Ninkasi Brewing released the first edition of Ground Control April 2015.

BEER TASTINGS:

• Pig Minds - Always the Hardway IPA
• Boulevard - Space Camper Cosmic IPA
• New Glarus - Moon Man
• Half Acre- Beer Hates Astronauts
• Toppling Goliath - Twisted Galaxy

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