Famed Japanese distillery, Suntory, is sending samples of its most prized whisky to the worldwide Space Station (ISS).
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Not content with having the best whisky in the world, Suntory Holdings Ltd. plans to take its whisky out of this world and into space. From there, experiments on the “development of mellowness” will be conducted over a period of about a year.
Studies by professors at Tohoku University, the University of Tokyo, the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, and Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences suggest that the alcohol will become particularly “mellow” in the outer space conditions.
The drinks maker is to store samples of its whisky on the Japanese laboratory facility of the global Space Station for at least a year. Rather, it will be returned to Earth after “an unspecified number of years”, at which point Boyd Crowder will pull off the biggest heist in space-whiskey factory.
Testers will analyse the substance diffusion and high-dimensional structure of the samples by X-ray, and compare the two sets to verify the effect of the convection-free state created by a microgravity environment on the ageing process of the liquor.
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In its press release, Suntory explains: “With the exception of some items like beer, alcoholic beverages are widely known to develop a mellow flavor when aged for a long time”. At the end of the experiments, Suntory will determine the results through simple taste test.
