Blog post: swansont: Where You Can't Toss One Down

Experiments using malt from the Ardbeg distillery on Islay are being carried out on the International Space Station to see how it matures without gravity.

 

Compounds of unmatured malt were sent to the station in an unmanned cargo spacecraft in October last year, along with particles of charred oak.

 

Scientists want to understand how they interact at close to zero gravity.