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ArticleBody:Researchers are investigating how beer making may be affected by microgravity—not for the prospect of one day sipping brews in space, but for ensuring humanity’s survival beyond Earth. Virtually every civilization throughout history has relied on fermentation not just for their booze, but for making everything from bread, to pickles, to yogurt.
Over the course of three days, the team then assessed their fermenting baby-beers at regular intervals on the basis of density, yeast counts, and yeast viability. After three days, researchers were able to confirm one of their initial hypotheses that microgravity doesn’t appear to harmfully affect fermentation. What’s more, the fermentation process actually sped up in the clinostat samples as compared to their controls.
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