Ginkgo and Voodoo partner to develop smooth alcoholic beverages

Voodoo Scientific and Ginkgo Bioworks announced Voodoo’s plans to leverage Ginkgo Enzyme Services to optimize an enzymatic solution to enable distillers to produce ultra-premium spirit products that are truly smooth. To support the development of the enzyme critical to Voodoo’s product, Ginkgo will leverage its extensive protein discovery and design capabilities to design and optimize the enzyme for a wide range of conditions in spirits manufacturing, from craft to global-scale production environments. Most distilled alcoholic beverages produce some degree of harsh sensation, or “bite,” when consumed, which is a major deterrent for many potential customers. No mellowing technique used by distillers to date has been able to fully eliminate this unpleasant attribute.