Company - Sapporo
Product/Service
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Fields
- Novelty
Food for Earth
- Status
- Demonstrated
- First launch
- 2006
“SAPPORO Space Barley” Beer Is Launched Onto The Market For The First Time In The World In Limited Quantities For Charity
- April 2006 - Haruna Nijo malting barley developed by Sapporo Breweries through collaborative research with Okayama University and the Russian Academy of Sciences was kept aboard the Zvezda Service Module, a component of the International Space Station (ISS), for five months (first-generation “space barley”).
- April 2007 - Seeded the first-generation “space barley”.
- November 2007 - Harvested the second-generation “space barley”; seeded the second-generation “space barley”.
- May 2008 - Harvested the third-generation “space barley”.
- October 2008 - Trial brewing of the world’s first beer made from the third-generation “space barley”.
- November 2008 - Seeded the third-generation “space barley”.
- January 2009 - Tasting events held at breweries nationwide for beer made from the third-generation “space barley”.
- May 2009 - Harvested the fourth-generation “space barley”.
- August 2009 - Hop seeds from Furano, Hokkaido launched into space.
- September 2009 Tasting events held at five breweries nationwide for barley tea made from “space barley”.
- November 2009 - Seeded the fourth-generation “space barley”.
- December 2009 - Applications accepted to buy SAPPORO Space Barley-the beer brewed from the fourth-generation “space barley”.
Status Comment / Notes
Last launch seemed to have been in 2009. Status is Demonstrated, not Active or Recurring.