ACB covers craft beer news, entertainment and lifestyle 24/7, and we’d like to think we do a decent job. But there’s a lot of great craft beer journalism out there – and here some recent beer articles that you might want to check out.
Brewing Beer On The Moon
One of the major disappointments of the Apollo 11 landing back in 1969 was the discovery of the complete absence of beer on the Moon. But the situation may only temporary, though.
As part of the Google Lunar XPRIZE challenge a team of University of California San Diego engineering students are working on an experiment to brew the first beer on the lunar surface, and they hope they’ve a shot to be part of India’s TeamIndus unmanned moon landing that’s scheduled for the end of 2017. And you can read more about this important space effort in…
Shower Beer Just Marketing Clickbait
Our bullshit antenna went up immediately when we first saw what would eventually become many articles devoted to a new “shower beer” that was created by PangPang Brewery in Sweden along with creative agency Snask.
And in spite of the considerable worldwide press it received we viewed the whole exercise as no more than craft beer and advertising click bait, and it appears we weren’t alone…
SORRY, BUT WE DON’T BUY THE SHOWER BEER GIMMICK
You want click bait? We’ll give you click bait…
Turning Piss Into Pilsner
Admit it we’ve all had beer on occasion that’s tasted like shit…But brewing a beer from recycled human piss…that’s somewhat new to us.
And this is not a joke, but a tangent of a considerable research effort led by two University of Ghent professors who are committed to recycling human urine for the good of mankind.
There’s evidently all kinds of things you can do with repurposed piss, but we were particularly interested in…