Space-Aged Wine

[FXibley]

Interesting article

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/a...rnational-space-station-to-age-for-12-months/

they will age wine in space for a year then compare with the same wine left on earth

 

[cmason1957]

Interesting study they are doing. I wonder if the force of exiting the earths atmosphere or reentry might cause more taste differences than any thing else.

 

[CabSauv]

I wonder if it will change the specific gravity...badum ching!

 

[JohnT]

Hmm. You got a number of people (6? Mixed gender?) Sealed in a tin can for several months with a full case of wine?

Huston, we have a problem. We can't find the damn corkscrew!

 

[Rice_Guy]

Lift off is somewhere around 5G of force. We can run a centrifuge and cheaply produce that force, there is some sediment that spins out. Reentry is a couple minutes of transition from 0 to 1 gravity force.

I wonder if the force of exiting the earths atmosphere or reentry might cause more taste differences than any thing else.

High energy radiation is a major issue ie a really-really bad case of sun exposure. ?Did they use the good stuff, , the $100 per bottle grade?

 

[berrycrush]

I am more interested to know how space wine tastes different, when consumed while orbiting the earth! Any astronaut in this forum?

 

[CDrew]

How would you get it to stay in the glass?

 

[Johnd]

How would you get it to stay in the glass?

How would you get it into a glass?

 

[mainshipfred]

Sippy cups could work but I would just drink it out of the bottle. 6 astronauts, 12 bottles, easy math.

 

[FunkedOut]

With no gravity, no sediment collects.

 

[Rice_Guy]

This train of thought is funny, , , the company was selling food to the Boeing contractor at NASA who would freeze dry everything they sent up, and repack it in pouches for rehydration with reclaimed water.

Picture a nice pouch of freeze dried wine which is mixed with reclaimed water (yup reclaimed from that liquid)