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  1. Re:I support space research. by Muad'Dave · · Score: 2 · on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different"

    I think they imply that when they mentioned they broke the glass on their MixStix(tm) on Earth: From the PDF, emphasis mine:

    ... in January 2012, the experiment was initiated, as the astronauts broke the glass separating walls in the individual MixStix(TM), thus allowing the distillate and the oak wood shavings to come into contact with each other. At the same time on Earth, we initiated the control experiment by breaking the separating wall in my MixStix(TM) on Islay (which had been sent back to me at Ardbeg Distillery from NanoRack’s laboratories in Houston, USA).

    So it looks like Ardbeg sent hooch and shavings to NanoRack in Houston, they created two (identical?) MixStix, and sent one to Russia to be boosted and the other back to Islay.

  2. Re:I support space research. by budgenator · · Score: 1 · on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different"

    What would be more important to Ardbeg Distilleries than the ageing of a single malt scotch whiskey? Why should NanoRacks care what a company sends to space as long as they pay their bill and don't jeopardise other payload?

  3. Re:Was it a Double Blind Test? by Muad'Dave · · Score: 1 · on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different"

    As I replied to the AC, they did do 'Real Science (tm)'.

  4. Re:Was it a Double Blind Test? by Muad'Dave · · Score: 4, Informative · on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different"

    Real science would have been if they put the two samples in a mass spectrometer and found a significantly different chemistry.

    Apparently they did, but that doesn't make sensational headlines.

  5. Re:Was it a Double Blind Test? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different"

    In other words. No science was performed in the creation of this blatant attempt to exploit dumb rich people.

    That is what I thought at first. Then I went looking for more details and found the paper: The impact of micro-gravity on the release of oak extractives into spirit in which they claim:

    Organoleptic Assessment -- multiple micro-gravity and control samples were compared in the sensory laboratory using Ardbeg 'tulip' shaped nosing and tasting glasses, for both triangle tests (in which three 'blind' glasses are compared, two of which contain one sample, and one the other sample) and for detailed aroma and flavour descriptions.

    They don't say if it was double-blind or not, but even if it was just single-blind, that's at least passable science.

  6. Ardbeg... by grahamtriggs · · Score: 1 · on JAXA Prepares To Try Making Whiskey In Space

    Ardbeg has already been to the ISS and back...

    http://www.ardbeg.com/ardbeg/a...

  7. Re:Classy by zebidee · · Score: 1 · on Jack Daniels Shows How To Write a Cease and Desist Letter

    You can do so much better than that ...

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