Yep, Japanese beverage company Suntory launched several whiskey samples into space last week, and the pouches of booze landed Monday at the International Space Station as part of a year-long maturation project.

- aims to determine if exposure to micro-gravity will allow the company to create a more mellow whiskey

- “To most people what smooth means is reducing the alcoholic burn," said Steve Ury, an L.A-based whiskey expert. "What produces that is adding more water.”

- space flight is expected to have some aging process in the batch

- Ury continued:

“To me, space barrel aging is sort of an absurdity. I don’t know what the effect will be at zero gravity on aging, but I’m not sure it matters," he said. "There's no practical way to keep aging your barrels in space."

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-whiskey-in-space-20150824-story.html

Our prayers go to our brave spacemen to maintain enough sobriety not to accidentally collide with Jupiter or something.

Who cares if it's smoother or whatnot, it's frikkin' space whiskey. I'd drink it just to be a able to say I did.

I could see that stuff selling for a lot. It would be interesting to taste though.

Suntory makes a good product... I would like to try this.