Galactic Homebrew

I have 5 gallons of beer fermenting in my basement, but apparently that's nothing compared to what the neighbors are doing; and by neighbors, I mean in the Sagittarius B2 region.

[source] McGovern’s enjoyable book, Uncorking the Past, begins with an amazing image: apparently, astronomers have used radio-waves to discover “massive clouds” of alcohol, “measuring billions of kilometers across,” scattered throughout interstellar space, “surrounding new star systems.”

IMAGE: Colour-composite image of the Galactic Centre and Sagittarius B2 from the European Southern Observatory. Sagittarius B2 is a vast cloud of interstellar particles including alcohol in the form of methanol, ethanol, and vinyl ethanol.

So I guess God is the ultimate homebrewer?

In related news, Dogfishhead brewery now has 3500 year old chocolate beer, Theobroma.