Most stories about teenagers, much less tweens, that involve beer don’t typically end well. The big American brewing companies, retailers, bars and restaurant associations spend tens of millions of dollars advertising that beer and alcohol are strictly for those 21 and up. So when we hear a good story, an innovative story about an 11 year old and beer we must relay that report to you.

11 year old Michal Bodzianowski did an innovative science experiment for his sixth grade science class at the Stem School and Academy in Highland’s Ranch Colorado. For the experiment he took an idea he saw where a previous student had brewed wine in micro-gravity, and wanted to extend the research to include beer and other kinds of alcohol that could be used for health purposes and as a supply in space.

The project was good enough for  Bodzianowski to win the National Center for Earth And Space Education’s Student Spaceflight Experiments Program.

Bodzianowski’s experiment along with those of 10 more students, will ride along on the next Space X-3 mission launching from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The 11 year old scientist will assemble the project in a tube and it will be carried by an astronaut onto the mission. The astronauts won’t use Bodzianowski’s methods just to have a cold one they are also looking forward to making alcohol for important things like water purification, reports the Huffington Post.

It’s uncertain whether the project will be successful in space but Bozianowski says he now wants to be a scientist.

photo: Stemhigh.org