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Created: 2025-08-10
Updated: 2025-09-06
Company - Jaguar Space
Product/Service
- Classification
- Miscellaneous
- Category
- Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)
Microgravity Research Payloads
Consulting Service
- Status
- Demonstrated
- First launch
- 2025
This is the first beer fermentation study in space where yeast and wort are mixed in microgravity, enabling us to study the gravity-driven process of “top fermentation” and what implications this may have for future bioprocesses in space.
Suds and Soil: Two Brewing Experiments to Launch to ISS, 2025-07-31.
- Starbase Brewing founder Nate Argroves and Jaguar Space founder Luis Zea teamed up on two ISS experiments with big implications for future space explorers looking to unwind over a cold one.
- The experiments are expected to fly on the NASA Crew-11 launch set for Thursday afternoon.
- Optimizing Agriculture in Simulated Interplanetary Soils (OASIS): It will attempt to grow barley aboard the ISS in simulated Martian regolith, adding spent grain from brewing to support crop growth. Texas A&M Agrilife, which has been working with the brewery on Earth-based research for two years, will also join this experiment.
- MicroBrew-1: It will send tubes to space where wort (or unfermented beer) and freeze-dried yeast are stored in separate chambers. An astronaut will turn a crank to combine them and set off the process of top fermentation, which typically relies on gravity. Zea will then study how the lack of gravity affects fermentation when the tubes are returned to Earth.
- Argroves helped shape the overall vision for the experiments, and provided brewing advice. He also contributed funding, noting that “a large percentage” of Starbase Brewing’s proceeds are invested into research.
PRESS RELEASE: SEEDS FROM 11 COUNTRIES GOING TO ISS FOR RESEARCH
- We’re excited to share our latest press release announcing the launch of the “Emerging Space Nation’s Space for Agriculture & Agriculture or Space” payload, a globally diverse collection of seeds contributed by research institutions, space agencies, and scientific organizations across 11 countries and 5 continents. The payload is scheduled to launch aboard NASA’s Crew-11 mission on July 31, 2025, from Kennedy Space Center.
- This mission brings together species with deep agricultural, nutritional, and cultural significance, including maize from Guatemala, pomegranate from Armenia, cotton from Egypt, wheat from Pakistan, and coastal mangrove species from the Maldives (among many others), to investigate climate resilience and seed preservation in microgravity. It is a powerful symbol of international collaboration in science and a meaningful step toward inclusive space exploration.
MicroBrew-1 is now brewing aboard the ISS!
A Starbase Brewing and Jaguar Space payload, this cutting-edge experiment studies top fermentation in microgravity — paving the way for advances in biomanufacturing, sustainable food systems, and life support beyond Earth.
PRESS RELEASE: EXPERIMENT TOWARDS TURNING MARTIAN REGOLITH INTO SOIL LAUNCHING TO ISS THIS THURSDAY
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