DW: If they add the tag line "it's out of this world" I am going to go postal.
Space alcohol is here. The world's first batch of sake brewed in space has made it back to Earth, arriving at Japan's Kansai International Airport on a Japan Airlines flight from Los Angeles. The mash was produced aboard the International Space Station inside Japan's Kibo experiment module, which was set up to simulate lunar gravity. Sake maker Dassai sent the ingredients and a specially designed brewing device to the station via an unmanned cargo spacecraft launched from Tanegashima Space Center in October 2025.
Astronauts added water to kick off fermentation, which was monitored from the ground. After about two weeks, the resulting mash was frozen and returned to Earth. Dassai chairman Hiroshi Sakurai said alcohol was detected after two weeks, calling it a relief. Half the mash will be pressed into a single 100-milliliter bottle of sake called "Dassai Moon," already sold to a buyer for about $700,000, with all proceeds going to Japanese space development. The project is part of Dassai's long-term goal of building a sake brewery on the moon by 2050.
Source: Japan Today