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Friday Cocktail: Grey Goose Galactic Martini

Space travel is at our doorstep. Of course, our main concern is what are we going to be eating and drinking up their? Luckily the team over at Grey Goose have started thinking about that for us.

Space travel is at our doorstep. Of course, our main concern is what are we going to be eating and drinking up their? Luckily the team over at Grey Goose have started thinking about that for us.

Grey Goose has created a cocktail to celebrate their partnership with Richard Branson’s commercial spaceline Virgin Galactic.

The cocktail had been created to explore the notion of the ‘taste of space’, which apparently tastes like raspberries. Yes, space is delicious. In 2009, astronomers discovered that Ethyl Formate, the compound widely reported as having the aroma of fruits such as raspberries, is also present in space.

Apparently astronauts’ sense of taste and smell are dulled by weightlessness, so the cocktail has incorporated spicy fresh black peppercorns, as well as raspberries, to heighten the taste profile of the cocktails.

“The fresh black pepper pairs perfectly with the slightly sweet and a touch of anise taste profile of GREY GOOSE,”

Joe McCanta, GREY GOOSE Global Ambassador

NASA

Before you start dismissing it as a silly idea, these 2 NASA astronauts are holding soup tubes with vodka labels pasted over them. Even they were wishing they had some vodka up there.

 

GREY GOOSE Galactic Martini Cocktail

Galactic-Martini

Made with GREY GOOSE and a touch of Alsatian framboise eau de vie, the GREY GOOSE Galactic Martini Cocktail features a distinctive ritual, where the bartender dramatically ‘throws’ it four times and then garnishes it with three raspberries dusted with black pepper to give it the taste of space.

Throwing is a classic technique dating to the late 1700s and mid-1800s used to aerate a cocktail. It involves mixing the drink by passing it from one mixing glass to the other from as high as possible, creating a mesmerizing arc of liquid.

This ritual is done deliberately exactly four times to represent the climb from 50,000 – 400,000 feet that the Virgin Galactic ship makes in exactly 90seconds at four times the speed of sound.

 

Recipe & Method

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  • 50 ml GREY GOOSE vodka
  • 10 ml Noilly Prat dry vermouth
  • 5 ml Alsatian framboise eau de vie (40% ABV)
  • 
1 lemon twist
  • 
3 raspberries on a GREY GOOSE pick
  • Cracked pepper

Method

Chill glass. Add GREY GOOSE vodka, vermouth and raspberry eau de vie. Throw 4 times. Strain and zest and discard the lemon. Garnish with raspberries, slightly sprinkled with cracked pepper.

What would you be drinking on a Virgin Galactic flight? Let us know in the comments below.