This Glass Lets You Enjoy Whiskey in Zero Gravity

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By Carl Engelking
Sep 4, 2015 11:10 PMNov 20, 2019 5:17 AM
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(Credit: Screengrab from YouTube/Ballantines) When space tourism eventually takes off, you can guarantee the first travelers to shell out the money to get there will also want to partake in the finer things in life – like a good whiskey — while enjoying their place on top of the world. But pouring a nicely aged whiskey is basically impossible without gravity there to lend a hand. Fortunately Ballantine’s, a maker of blended Scotch whiskey, has a solution: On Friday the company unveiled its Space Glass, which is the first vessel engineered specifically to deliver a distilled beverage to your lips while enjoying the weightlessness of space.

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