A normal, Earth-bound bottle of 4 Pines stout, along with a prototype of the bottle that astronauts may someday use in space. (Image credit: 4 Pines Brewing/Saber Astronautics Australia) ...

Vostok "4 Pines Stout" Space Beer, brewed by the 4 Pines Brewing Company and Saber Astronautics Australia for high-flying space tourists, goes on sale across Australia.

NASA may still frown upon knocking back a cold one during spaceflight, but Australians can now sample the world's first beer designed for consumption by high-flying space tourists.

Two experts, one from a microbrewery and the other from a space engineering firm, teamed up to create "Vostok 4 Pines Stout" - a prototype for the galaxy's first ever space beer.

The makers of 4 Pines Stout boldly go where no brewmaster has gone before. Skip to content.