BETTER DRINKING THROUGH SCIENCE
Aug 24, 2021
4 minutes
BY KARA NEWMAN
ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARK WATKINSON
Can science build a better spirit? To find out, distillers are using innovative technologies and science-guided techniques that range from computer algorithms to plasma reactors.
Here are four such spirits. Do they hold clues about how future bottlings might be engineered?
Molecular Engineering
ENDLESS WEST
Whiskey made without traditional grains or barrels? That’s the provocative concept behind Glyph “molecular whiskey,” made by San Francisco-based Endless West.
“It starts with what we call our blank canvas: neutral alcohol distilled from grain, usually largely corn,” says Alec Lee, the company’s cofounder and CEO. “We can paint our own
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