The_Beaver wrote on Jul 30^th, 2006 at 10:43pm:

Welcome aboard, CampGirl.  I seem to remember Solotripper describing a Japanese freeze dried beer pill.   The Beaver

Yes, welcome aboard and as you can see, this post will get a lot of responses ;) ;)!
When  i made the post about "freeze dried beer", i was being entirely serious.
i talked to my brother-in-law after that post and got some more details.
seems the process was developed for some gourmet soy sauce which used "saki" in it's recipe??
Drying the other ingredients wasn't a problem, it was how to you keep alcohol??
seems they come up with some kind of "gelatin"that would hold alcohol but dissolve when rehydrated??
i'm telling you this because i KNOW we have some world travelers on this site and i wonder if anyone else has ever heard of this???
IF, there was such a thing, it would open up the beverage choice arena in a entirely new direction ;D ;D!!