When they are not busy infiltrating American automotive markets, making crazy violent animated movies, or developing robots who promise to be your best friend, the Japanese busy themselves with making the most ridicuously expensive beer you could dream of…space beer.

Using barley only grown in the International Space Station hundreds of miles above the surface of the earth.  I’ll have to be honest, I pretty much think Sapporo (the distributor, in this case) puts out crap beer–an over priced novelty here in the US, but given the opportunity I would give this beer a glug just say I’ve had it.  I can vaguely recall from the four years of Japanese I took as a foreign language in high school…”Anata wa Biru o nomimas!”  (I am drinking beer!)

Watch and enjoy!