posted 12-26-2021 10:15 PM               

Whisky bottled for 2022 moon milestones: NASA's Artemis I and Apollo 17

An online spirits merchant is commemorating the past and future of NASA missions to the moon with limited scotch whisky offerings for 2022.

Scotland-based The Whisky Barrel is marking the new year with the release of the first bottling of its Artemis whisky series commemorating the upcoming first flight of NASA's new lunar program. The bottler also has an Apollo series, including a single barrel whisky bottled for the last mission to land astronauts on the moon 50 years ago.

posted 11-16-2022 09:14 AM               

Artemis Orion First Launch Accomplished Invergordon 30 Year Old 1991

Specialist online Scotch whisky merchant and bottler, TheWhiskyBarrel.com, is proud to release the second bottling of its ARTEMIS whisky series commemorating the first flight of the Artemis space program. A new single cask Scotch whisky selected from a unique cask distilled at Invergordon distillery at Easter Ross in the Highlands of Scotland.

ORION First Launch Accomplished

Artemis 1 is the first launch of the Orion spacecraft. It is to be a test flight orbiting the Moon before returning to Earth in the coming weeks and followed by a crewed lunar landing expected in 2025; the first since Apollo 17 in 1972.

Invergordon 30 Year Old 1991 Vintage Single Cask

Selected from a single barrel (ex-Islay) cask distilled at Invergordon distillery, Highlands, yielding 204 numbered bottles at natural cask strength 47.0% abv.

• Nose: Constellation of peat smoke, ecliptic fruit salad and mango, rocket fuelled demerara sugar and lunar honey.

• Taste: Big bang of tropical fruits, solar bonfire embers, orbital blood oranges and total eclipse of chocolate ginger.

• Finish: Meteor shower of vanilla pods, deep space pomegranate with a soft sweet gravitational pull.

Each bottle retails at: £150 GBP inc. VAT / €143 EUR / $149 USD / c$198 (+ P&P).