Gin "Over Ice:" Making the Coolest Spirit Even Cooler Inside Iceland's Glacier Tunnel

Gin is hot – resurging in popularity as one of the spirits most identified with cocktails that harness ice and botanical flavors in cool, stylish cocktails. So what better place to make this cooling spirit than inside the world’s largest ice tunnel, in a country famous for its glaciers and wild nature? 

Into the Glacier offers visitors expert-led access to the world’s largest man-made ice tunnel. After a thrilling drive in special, giant-wheeled glacier vehicles over the extraordinary terrains of a glacier, you arrive at the deceptively modest entrance to another world. You can actually walk over 1600 feet into the ancient, blue heart of Iceland’s second-largest glacier, descending to a depth of over 130 feet beneath the surface of the ice. 

Langjökull (pronounced LONG-yuh-kull) glacier is about 12 miles wide and over 30 miles long – that’s an area of over 360 square miles. And with ice up to nearly 2000 feet thick, that translates into a giant block of ice of nearly 50 cubic miles. 

Beneath its icy surface lie dormant volcanic systems, making Langjökull both a glacial and geothermal marvel. It's a thrilling mix of fire and ice – encapsulating the essence, and nickname, of Iceland itself. 

That essential Icelandic environment, like fire and ice, isn’t static, points out Into the Glacier. It’s a moving, living environment.

So it’s teamed up with Mosi Gin to create a spirit with unmatchable character – aging barrels of gin deep inside Langjökull glacier.  The makers are tapping into the wild forces that shape the island of ‘ice and fire,’ aiming for a gin that tastes like visitors feel is the soul of Iceland: fresh, pure, and full of wild, natural flavors. 

Seven Barrels, One Glacier

Seven barrels of Mosi were brought to mature deep inside the glacier, surrounded by living, breathing ice. According to the makers, weathering means letting nature transform the spirit. Stillness, cold, and the pressure of a thousand-year-old ice all add unique layers to each batch, making it unmistakably Icelandic. Langjökull’s ice tunnel isn’t a regular storage site—it’s a place where “you can feel the glacier whispering through every frozen wall.”

Mos Gin makers say that, “Into the Glacier is the perfect resting place for the maturation of Mosi gin. The flavor is evolving as we speak, and we cannot wait to see what the incredible Langjökull glacier does to the flavor of the gin.”

The first batch of glacier-aged gin is being revealed soon, and if you love a gin cocktail, you may already be imagining how bartenders in Iceland – or you at home – may soon be able to concoct cocktails that reflect the one-of-a-kind botanical flavors and icy aging of this new kind of gin. 

Here’s to hoping a bar will soon be added to the end of the Into the Glacier tour! 

Langjökull is open year-round for guided tours, offering the once-in-a-lifetime chance to step inside a glacier, explore its shimmering blue corridors, and see where the spirit quietly rests.

Skal to the adventure! And… 

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Image courtesy of Arctic Adventures.

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