Can you pour a beer on the moon ?

Question

Will the head be good ? Do you need to tip the glass ? What about in the proposed space station ?

Answer 1

Everyone has missed the most important fact and that is temperature.
The beer would be frozen. You can't pour it. No head either.


Provided it was melted first it could be poured. The lower gravity would mean tipping is not necessary as there is less agitation. No decent head on it (even a beer as bad as fosters wouldn't get much), but then as the head stops the beer from going warm too quick it's not really necessary on the moon.

Space station:, don't know about the newly proposed one, but they normally rotate giving an artificial gravity in which case no problems, just like on Earth except that you'd probably be stuck with a selection of Russian or American beers -the real reason astronauts go crazy in all the movies (Baltika I guess is passable though).

Answer 2

I assume that you mean inside of a pressurized living quarter. If so, beer should behave pretty much the same way it does on earth. However, if the pressure is somewhat reduced you might want to make it a bit on the flat side (by earth standards) because the lower pressure will cause the CO2 to want to come out of solution quicker.

So... as a beer brewer, I wonder how I would go about getting the beer concession for the moon base that NASA is planning for 2020?

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The space station, of course, is a different story. The lack of gravity would make it difficult to pour into a glass...

Answer 3

There is gravity on the moon. It is less than the Earth though. Beer would pour SLOWLY I should think.

Answer 4

there is gravity on the moon so you would be able to pour it... but the gravity is so low that it would take forever for it to come out of the can.

Answer 5

Yes but it won't go in the glass...

Answer 6

NO, THERE TOUGH GUYS!!!! They drink straight from the bottle. Cans & Cups are for wusses!!!!

Answer 7

no there is no gravity!!!