Dogman
1st November 2013, 05:36 PM
Beer Made with Moon Dust Blends Brewer and Spacesuit Maker Skills
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Team members from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and ILC Dover toast "Celest-jewel-ale," made with moon dust.
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A beer brewed with moon dust might sound like a lunatic idea, but it is now a reality thanks to a Delaware brewery and the company behind NASA's Apollo spacesuits.
Now on tap at Dogfish Head Brewings and Eats restaurant in Delaware is "Celest-jewel-ale (http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-100113a.html)," a traditional German Oktoberfest beer with one not so traditional ingredient: moon dust.
What's more, each pint of the Harvest Moon-inspired ale is available in a spacesuit-fabric-wrapped glass. [Space Food Photos: What Astronauts Eat In Orbit (http://www.space.com/12274-space-food-photos-astronauts-nasa-meals.html)]
"Celest-jewel-ale is made with lunar meteorites that have been crushed into dust, then steeped like tea in a rich, malty Oktoberfest," the Rehoboth Beach eatery wrote on its website. "These certified moon jewels are made up primarily of minerals and salts, helping the yeast-induced fermentation process and lending this traditional German style a subtle but complex earthiness."
"Or is it mooniness?" the craft ale creators posed.
Dogfish Head recruited nearby ILC Dover, the contractor that created the spacesuits (http://www.space.com/71-suit-suite-cosmic-apparel-over-the-years.html) worn by the Apollo astronauts on the moon, to source the lunar meteorites for its brew and provide the custom space-age beer koozies.
http://www.space.com/23055-moon-dust-beer-spacesuit.html
Sorta out of this world beer.
http://i.space.com/images/i/000/033/295/i02/moondustbeer_spacesuitkoozie01.jpg?1380746459
Team members from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and ILC Dover toast "Celest-jewel-ale," made with moon dust.
Credit: Dogfish Head View full size image
A beer brewed with moon dust might sound like a lunatic idea, but it is now a reality thanks to a Delaware brewery and the company behind NASA's Apollo spacesuits.
Now on tap at Dogfish Head Brewings and Eats restaurant in Delaware is "Celest-jewel-ale (http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-100113a.html)," a traditional German Oktoberfest beer with one not so traditional ingredient: moon dust.
What's more, each pint of the Harvest Moon-inspired ale is available in a spacesuit-fabric-wrapped glass. [Space Food Photos: What Astronauts Eat In Orbit (http://www.space.com/12274-space-food-photos-astronauts-nasa-meals.html)]
"Celest-jewel-ale is made with lunar meteorites that have been crushed into dust, then steeped like tea in a rich, malty Oktoberfest," the Rehoboth Beach eatery wrote on its website. "These certified moon jewels are made up primarily of minerals and salts, helping the yeast-induced fermentation process and lending this traditional German style a subtle but complex earthiness."
"Or is it mooniness?" the craft ale creators posed.
Dogfish Head recruited nearby ILC Dover, the contractor that created the spacesuits (http://www.space.com/71-suit-suite-cosmic-apparel-over-the-years.html) worn by the Apollo astronauts on the moon, to source the lunar meteorites for its brew and provide the custom space-age beer koozies.
http://www.space.com/23055-moon-dust-beer-spacesuit.html
Sorta out of this world beer.