Dogfish Head creates a beer made with moon dust
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Dogfish Head has a new small-batch beer with a secret ingredient that is out of this world.
Celest-jewel-ale, a malty Oktoberfest ale, is made using moon dust.
The Delaware-based brewer teamed up with ILC Dover --a company that makes space suits for NASA --to get access to "lunar meteorites" that it ground into dust "then steeped like tea in a rich, malty Oktoberfest,” the company says on its website. There are also German malts and hops in there too.
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"These certified moon jewels are made up primarily of minerals and salts," the company says,"helping the yeast-induced fermentation process and lending this traditional German style a subtle but complex earthiness."
You won’t have to leave Earth to get a taste, but you will have to go to its Rehoboth Beach brewpub. And it’s only available for a limited time. But as an extra bonus, each pint of the Harvest Moon-inspired ale is available in a spacesuit-fabric-wrapped glass.