Brewing beer from algae - part of the shipboard air-scrubbing system?

[BlackBat242]

https://younghenrys.com/algae
https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and...t/algae-cures-popular-brewers-carbon-hangover

So that "engine-room still" might just be an official item of equipment.

And that leads to "real beer" being a high-cost trade item, produced on only a few worlds and in demand by wealthy aficionados willing to pay for that "special bottle".

 

[kilemall]

Spacers would probably learn to eschew the stuff made from mud farmer grains and prefer the algae brew.

 

[Condottiere]

Micro terraforming.

 

[Ulsyus]

This idea was used in some of Elizabeth Moon's novels some time ago - big tanks of algae as part of the vessel enviro systems

 

[Condottiere]

If we assume it needs water, we do tend to have large tanks onboard.

 

[kilemall]

This idea was used in some of Elizabeth Moon's novels some time ago - big tanks of algae as part of the vessel enviro systems

I use the term hyperalgae, genetically engineered to carbon scrub at several times the natural rate. They are designed to die out, largely to protect biospheres either planetary or space habitat, but happily for the suppliers also requiring life support costs.