Forget Dried Ice Cream, This Kid Wants to Brew Beer in Space

The International Space Station may soon have its own little brewery thanks to a kid who still has a decade before he can legally drink.

Michal Bodzianowski, 11, was among several winners of a national science competition that is part of the Student Spaceflights Experiments Program. His entry, titled "What Are the Effects of Creation of Beer in Microgravity and Is It Possible?" grew out of his knowledge that beer was popular in the middle ages because, unlike water, it wasn't filled with bacteria

He theorized, according to the Denver Post, that if a manned space mission went horribly awry and their water was somehow contaminated, they might be able to brew beer to stay alive, because alcohol kills bacteria. Read more...