"If We Ever Get to Mars, the Beer Might Not Be Bad"

"Here’s an interplanetary botany discovery that took college students and not NASA scientists to find: Hops — the flowers used to add a pleasant bitterness to beer — grow well in Martian soil.

“I don’t know if it’s a practical plant, but it’s doing fairly well,” said Edward F. Guinan, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Villanova University."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/science/mars-plants-soil.html