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Space Whiskey Returns to Earth
Posted on 9/11/15 at 10:57 am
Posted on 9/11/15 at 10:57 am
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Four years ago, vials of Ardbeg whisky hitched a ride to the International Space Station. Space research company NanoRacks wanted to learn how time spent in microgravity affects the maturation process of that sweet, smoky scotch. Now those vials are back on Earth, where experts have sampled the results and rendered a verdict.
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"I was quite astonished at how different the samples were," Bill Lumsden, Ardbeg's director of distilling, says in the below video sharing the results. "It was a whole new range of samples, some flavors I haven't encountered before."
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Normally, Ardbeg is known for a dry, woody, smoky flavor with a hint of fruitiness like prunes and dates, as Lumsden describes it. But in the white paper, he describes the flavor of the space-matured sample as:
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"A very focused flavor profile, with smoked fruits (prunes, raisins, sugared plums and cherries), earthy peat smoke, peppermint, aniseed, cinnamon and smoked bacon or hickory-smoked ham. The aftertaste is pungent, intense and long, with hints of wood, antiseptic lozenges and rubbery smoke."
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Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:00 am to blueboy
$20 bucks says that shite never went to space.
They probably gave that guy a different brand of whiskey to taste.
They probably gave that guy a different brand of whiskey to taste.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:01 am to blueboy
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dry, woody, smoky flavor with a hint of fruitiness like prunes and dates
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very focused flavor profile, with smoked fruits (prunes, raisins, sugared plums and cherries), earthy peat smoke, peppermint, aniseed, cinnamon and smoked bacon or hickory-smoked ham. The aftertaste is pungent, intense and long, with hints of wood, antiseptic lozenges and rubbery smoke
Men should limit their adjective use to shiety, ok, good, and damn good.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:01 am to blueboy
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"A very focused flavor profile, with smoked fruits (prunes, raisins, sugared plums and cherries), earthy peat smoke, peppermint, aniseed, cinnamon and smoked bacon or hickory-smoked ham. The aftertaste is pungent, intense and long, with hints of wood, antiseptic lozenges and rubbery smoke."
How tf do you get all that from a sip of whiskey
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:03 am to TheBoo
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How tf do you get all that from a sip of whiskey
Step 1 is you have to be completely full of yourself.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:03 am to blueboy
I'll shoot some space whiskey.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:03 am to blueboy
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"I was quite astonished at how different the samples were," Bill Lumsden, Ardbeg's director of distilling, says in the below video sharing the results. "It was a whole new range of samples, some flavors I haven't encountered before."
bull fricking shite.
i'm calling BULL frickING shite.
ultimate attention-whore.
hey poors, i got some special 'space station' whiskey with flavors you'll never experience. sorry for ya.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:06 am to blueboy
Whatever. The astronauts up there drank it and then pissed in the bottle.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:08 am to SEClint
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I'll shoot some space whiskey.
Would you eat a space peanut?
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:08 am to TheBoo
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How tf do you get all that from a sip of whiskey
It's mostly repetition with some different qualifiers. You'll notice the word 'smoke' appears five times in that quote.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:10 am to TheAlmightySmash
I want to do it in space with the chick in your avatar.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:30 am to SEClint
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want to do it in space with the chick in your avatar
Me too. All you gotta do is spin her as fast as you can.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:30 am to TheBoo
quote:the same way an architect gets a sense for the internal construction of a building just from looking at it, whereas a normal person would only see the exterior. It's expertise.
How tf do you get all that from a sip of whiskey
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:32 am to CAD703X
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ll fricking shite.
i'm calling BULL frickING shite.
Well it would make sense. Without gravity, the liquid and the wood may react differently to each other. That's what makes the flavor.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:32 am to TheBoo
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ow tf do you get all that from a sip of whiskey
It's not that hard with practice and a refined palette.
Like anything else. It's practice and experience and gained knowledge.
This post was edited on 9/11/15 at 11:34 am
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:32 am to blueboy
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"A very focused flavor profile, with smoked fruits (prunes, raisins, sugared plums and cherries), earthy peat smoke, peppermint, aniseed, cinnamon and smoked bacon or hickory-smoked ham. The aftertaste is pungent, intense and long, with hints of wood, antiseptic lozenges and rubbery smoke."
the person that wrote this LOVES the smell of his own farts. I guarantee it.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:33 am to blueboy
reminds me of the youtube video of restaurant expensive water tastings and the guy was giving them water out the back from hose.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:42 am to Chad504boy
IWDI. Mixed with come Co-Cola.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:43 am to Chad504boy
quote:That was an episode of Penn & Teller's bullshite
reminds me of the youtube video of restaurant expensive water tastings and the guy was giving them water out the back from hose
Posted on 9/11/15 at 11:45 am to blueboy
I love Islay Scotch.
Want.
All the wants
Want.
All the wants
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