Maybe it’s not quite as exciting as it sounds, but Japanese Brewery Sapporo has created the galaxy’s first beer made in space! Well, kind of.

The extra-terrestrial beverage was the result of a five-month mission during which barley was grown for the first time in a Russian laboratory on board the International Space Station (ISS).

Sapporo Breweries, one of Japan’s major breweries, went on to use the crop of barley grown in space to create 100 litres of a 5.5 per cent proof beer ­ aptly named Space Barley.

The beer will only be available to 250 people, and these lucky few will be picked through a lottery and given 6-packs costing $115. I’d think it would make more sense to sell individual bottles instead of 6-packs, thus allowing more people to try the brew, but I’m not a scientist. It’s not exactly a beer made in space, nor is it a bunch of astronauts getting slightly tipsy on Japanese beer while revolving the Earth, but it’s still rather cool that a brewery had the idea and that other countries went along with it. What’s that? It might involve astronauts getting tipsy in space?

Although beer has previously been off space menus due to its alcohol and gas content, breweries are hoping that the newly-created space beer may eventually become available for astronauts to enjoy in space.

Because this is all we need–drunk astronauts. As if they weren’t already crazy enough:

Check the video below for some more information about Space Barley.

(Via The Huffington Post and The Telegraph)