Ninkasi Brewing Company

After scraping together enough funds from friends and family, the two founders produced their first batch of beer in June, 2006.

Created: 2022-09-09

Updated: 2023-03-04

Company - Ninkasi Brewing Company

Founded
Country: 2006; USA

Funding: Yes, ?

Website: https://ninkasibrewing.com/

Social

Product/Service

Classification: Miscellaneous

Category: Space Entertainment

Fields: Suborbital
Novelty

Status: Demonstrated

First launch: 2014

The collaboration first led to an unsuccessful attempt to launch yeast on a July 2014 mission at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, an attempt that Ninkasi dubbed Mission One.

Co-led by two amateur rocket groups, the Civilian Space eXploration Team (CSXT) and Team Hybriddyne, the launch was executed well. However, it took 27 days to locate the rocket because two of the three tracking devices failed at ignition, Floyd said. Also, the rocket fell more than 2 miles (3.2 km) off course, in a region already heavily pockmarked by missile testing. By the time the yeast was retrieved, only a handful of cells were living.

After the minor misadventure, three variants of yeast successfully launched on the so-called Mission Two on Oct. 23, 2014. The launch was carried out by private aerospace company UP Aerospace for NASA's Flight Opportunities Program. Ninkasi's contribution included six vials stored just below the rocket's nose cone. Of those vials, four survived: two with an ale yeast used as the basis for the new beer and two other vials with a southern German lager strait and an alt yeast strain.

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