Cast your mind back to 2011. That was the year we sent vials of Ardbeg-crafted molecules into orbit, conducted a scientific experiment at 17,227 miles per hour and became the first distillery in space. A momentous year indeed.

Four years later, Ardbeg has returned to Earth and is now enjoying a rather more leisurely round-the-world tour.

From USA to Europe, Australia to Asia, Ardbeg fans have come nose-to-glass with an actual vial from the space experiment, defying gravity and floating within the weightless, airless atmosphere of the Ardbeg Space Pod. You can track the progress of the Space Aged Tour here.

THE ANSWER WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR

While Ardbeg is suspended within its zero-gravity Space Pod, Dr Bill Lumsden has been keeping us all in suspense as he prepares to publish his highly anticipated White Paper on the mysteries of maturation.

But finally, the experiment is over, the research is complete and the lab coats are off. Today, Dr Bill Lumsden, Director of Distilling, Whisky Creation & Whisky Stocks, reveals his long-awaited results.

You can read the White Paper in full.

And watch our Final Frontier film: The Pier Review, starring Dr Bill, Charlie MacLean and Jeff Manber from Nanoracks.

OR POUR YOURSELF A DRAM AND
REACH YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS

Why not pour yourself a dram while you pore over these truly exciting research findings? Ardbeg is, after all, the most unfathomably complex and eternally mysterious of all whiskies. What better way to celebrate the culmination of our adventure in space?
Slàinte!

Mickey Heads
Committee Chairman