London, September 4 (ANI): A company that sent vials of chemical compounds for maturation to space in a rocket last year, has brought out a new whisky to celebrate the event.
The vials were sent to space to test the effects of near zero gravity on the maturation process.
Ardbeg has now released a new wine "Ardbeg Galileo" to celebrate the event.
The experiment is said to be the first of its kind.
The micro-organic compounds will be spending up to two years in space interacting with charred oak in near zero gravity conditions.
And the results will be compared with a control sample that is currently maturing on terra firma at Ardbeg's Islay distillery.
"So far so good. The experiment went live in January when the scientists broke the separating wall between the two components," the BBC quoted Dr Bill Lumsden, director of distilling and whisky creation at Ardbeg, said.
"We will not know the results for another year or so but in the meantime we thought we would celebrate the experiment by the introduction of Ardbeg Galileo - our own earthly tribute to the scientific experiment taking place far up in space," he said.
The limited edition 12-year-old single malt whisky is a vatting of different styles of Ardbeg that were laid down in 1999.
The distillery was invited in late 2011 by a Texas-based space research company NanoRacks to take part in the two-year space experiment.
The vials that were launched by Soyuz rocket from Baikanur in Kazakhstan in late 2011 contained a class of chemical compounds that are known as "terpenes."
The company said that the experiment could explain the workings of these large, complex molecules and help uncover new information about the change they undergo in a near zero gravity environment.
The test should also help Ardbeg to find new chemical building blocks in their own flavour spectrum and could have applications for a variety of other commercial and research products. (ANI)
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