ZERO G/ABV
An unlabeled whisky decanter held in an orbital cradle beside a radial oak maturation cell

Orbital whisky / Flight 01

ZERO G / ABV

Whisky matured beyond gravity.

Distillation
Capillary reflux
Maturation
Radial oak
Release
001 / 96 bottles
Low Earth orbit 17,520 orbital cycles 62.4% ABV 375 mL

The constraint

In orbit, tradition becomes a control system.

A terrestrial still assumes that vapor rises, liquid falls, and a cask keeps its contents against the wood. Remove gravity and every one of those assumptions becomes an engineering decision.

Zero G ABV replaces column height with capillary geometry, passive cask contact with a radial oak cell, and warehouse breathing with metered oxygen and volatile recovery. The objective is not to recreate an Earth warehouse in orbit. It is to isolate the variables that make maturation possible and control them deliberately.

Orbital process architecture

Four systems.
One spirit.

Radial orbital distillation and maturation system A technical cross-section showing a capillary core, phase separator, radial oak vanes, oxygen loop, and volatile cold trap. SYSTEM CROSS-SECTION / NOT TO SCALE CELL 01
Orientation
Independent
Interface
Capillary
Atmosphere
Closed loop

01 / Capillary still

Reflux without a vertical.

Fermented grain wash enters a wick-lined core. Surface tension maintains liquid contact while controlled vapor flow carries the more volatile fraction through a compact reflux path.

Primary force
Surface tension
Control variable
Reflux ratio

The angel's share

We do not eliminate it.
We instrument it.

In a terrestrial warehouse, water, ethanol, and aroma compounds leave the cask for the atmosphere. A sealed orbital cell cannot treat that exchange as folklore.

Vapor leaving the oak cell enters a temperature-controlled recovery loop. Every fraction is condensed, sampled, and measured. Selected compounds can be returned to the maturation program; the remainder stays sealed as a chemical record of the cask's evolution.

Headspace
Metered
Oxygen
Dosed
Volatiles
Recovered
Loss
Accounted
The Flight One decanter mounted in its steel cradle beside a charred-oak ring

Release 001

Flight One

Orbital malt whisky / cask strength

Malted barley distilled through a capillary reflux core and matured for three Earth years in a radial American white-oak cell. Bottled after 17,520 orbital cycles.

Still
Capillary reflux / double pass
Oak
American white oak / char 03
Profile
Burnt sugar / roasted apricot / black tea / dry oak
ABV
62.4%
Yield
96 × 375 mL
Founders' allocation USD 42,000 Per bottle. Delivery window subject to re-entry manifest.