{"id":28859,"date":"2020-07-03T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=28859"},"modified":"2020-07-02T23:43:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T04:43:41","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-sent-hops-to-near-space-now-its-in-the-stratobeer-at-strawberry-alley-ale-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2020\/07\/03\/austin-peay-state-university-sent-hops-to-near-space-now-its-in-the-stratobeer-at-strawberry-alley-ale-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University sent hops to near space, now it\u2019s in the Stratobeer at Strawberry Alley Ale Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – On a sunny but chilly January afternoon, Austin Peay State University (APSU) physics students sent a high-altitude balloon 93,000 feet into the stratosphere.<\/p>\n

The balloon carried an important student experiment, but the payload also included two special guests: two containers that contained Cascade hops.<\/p>\n

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Strawberry Alley Ale Works\u2019 brew Stratobeer is made from hops Austin Peay State University launched into the near space. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bryan Gaither \u2013 Austin Peay State University\u2019s professional mad scientist and lab manager for the Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy \u2013 came up with the idea to send beer hops to near space then handing over the hops to Strawberry Alley Ale Works to craft a special space-themed brew.<\/p>\n

That brew \u2013 Stratobeer \u2013 hit the downtown restaurant\u2019s menu on June 20th.<\/p>\n

Strawberry Alley Ale Works last month introduced Stratobeer \u2013 \u201cour out-of-this-world black IPA.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIntroducing Stratobeer, our out-of-this-world black IPA,\u201d Strawberry Alley Ale Works announced on its Facebook page.<\/p>\n

After describing the January balloon launch, the post reads, \u201cThe successful experiment yielded important data for APSU, and a tasty brew for you!\u201d<\/p>\n

Stratobeer features hints of roasted malt and chocolate balanced by healthy additions of Cascade, Summit, Amarillo and Azacca hops lending a soft bitterness with faint citrus undertones, according to Strawberry Alley Ale Works.<\/p>\n

The Student Experiment <\/h3>\n
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A jar of Cascade hops before the January launch. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

Last June, APSU physics student Zach Hill, along with fellow student Zach Givens, attended Rocket Week at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, where he helped send Austin Peay\u2019s first payload into space.<\/p>\n

Seven months later, on that chilly but clear January morning in Downtown Commons, Hill made a final check of his equipment before sending it into the stratosphere. <\/p>\n

Launching beer hops into near space makes for a fun story around the bar, but Hill\u2019s work \u2013 the main reason for that day\u2019s balloon launch \u2013 may put APSU one step closer to one day having an actual satellite in space.<\/p>\n

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For the project, he used a wireless technology called Zigbee to test the ability for different payload boxes to send data to each other during a flight.<\/p>\n

\u201cZigbee is a wireless protocol similar in some ways to Bluetooth,\u201d Hill said. <\/p>\n

\u201cEssentially it\u2019s just a way for two devices to communicate with each other wirelessly. What I have been working on is a way to connect different balloon payloads running different experiments together wirelessly so that we can break a large experiment up into multiple parts. My payloads recorded things like temperature, pressure and acceleration and communicated that using Zigbee to a device which recorded the data.\u201d <\/p>\n

To learn more<\/h3>\n

To read more about the balloon launch, visit https:\/\/www.apsu.edu\/news\/january-2020-hops-launch.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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