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Anybody else remember Apollo Beer? They had a lager and an ale in a distinctive blue bottle and supposedly the yeast strains had been to the moon or in space or something like that. I don’t recall that it tasted very good, but it was a great gimmick and a terrific looking package. Well, according to ABC in Australia, scientists have actually discovered a cloud made of alcohol in our galaxy, and it’s enormous. At almost 288 billion miles across, it undoubtedly exceeds all of the alcohol ever produced on earth through all time. From the ABC story:
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If you squint really hard, you can see the giant cloud of moonshine.
Unfortunately it’s a giant cloud of methanol, which is highly toxic as compared to the ethanol in beer that we know and love. Still, a neat story.
Yeah, I saw that, too, but decided the story was funnier without the potential death angle hanging over it. I prefer the idea that perhaps somewhere out there in space there’s a cloud of malt that wanders too close to a star, causing it to boil and become a cloud of wort whereupon in happens to collide with a giant hop cloud before meeting up with our cloud of alcohol. Ah, to dream the impossible dream. Still, it made me laugh. Cheers, J