
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 1, 1993                   TAG: 9305010151
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: OBERPFAFFENHOFEN, GERMANY                                LENGTH: Short

BEER THAT'S REALLY OUT OF THIS WORLD

Don't look now, but the beer of the future may be overhead on the space shuttle Columbia.

A spiral tube of Beck and Co.'s finest ingredients is fermenting aboard the shuttle to determine whether the weightlessness and intense cosmic rays of space can genetically alter yeast to produce tastier beer.

Germans may be tittering that their national passion for beer has been taken to the limits, literally. Beck's lovers hope the prized brew will taste even better. Beck also is searching for a brew that will ferment faster and that is more "wholesome" - less likely to cause a hangover. - Associated Press

by CNB