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To make my favourite Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey they need to mellow the whiskey through charcoal (filter it so that the whiskey don't have any unwanted flavours)

For that they need lots of charcoal, which they them selves make by burning loads of oak

To burn the wood you need to douse it with some accelerant, you know lighter fluid, petrol and such. but hey the charcoal will then will smell of that accelerant.

So what do we use instead :D We douse it with lots of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey ;)

let it burn ! anyone for whiskey flavoured charcoal - you can use it in ur home water filter .. :D

as they say on the website ..

Jack Daniel believed "Every day we make it, we'll make it the best we can." For him, that meant mellowing his whiskey drop by drop through ten feet of sugar maple charcoal

Seven generations later, we still mellow our whiskey just as Mr. Jack did. The reason is simple: it imparts a distinctive smoothness folks have come to expect from Jack Daniel's. Charcoal Mellowing makes Jack Daniel's what it is – a Tennessee Whiskey and not a Bourbon. It refines our whiskey's rich flavor even before we fully mature it in barrels of our own making. Yes, it's a painstaking process that demands extra attention and makes our whiskey a bit more costly to craft. But Mr. Jack wouldn't have it any other way. Neither would we.

check out more info on

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/food-and-recipes/jack-daniels-videos-playlist.htm

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Cut at will ...

Ever since I played my first Metal gear solid game - Guns of the Patriots , and it knocked my socks off with its amazing graphics, intuitive game play mechanics, and intriguing and captivating story (Its almost like you are watching a movie), I have been wanting more. At E3 Kojima productions announced their upcoming title Metal Gear Solid: Rising featuring the sword wielding Raiden instead of solid snake  . Heres the debut trailer 

And it is drool worthy. These guys are masters at doing things just right. The trailer just shows a sliver of what can be done with a free slicing mechanic. imagine being able to cut through almost everything that is there in the game, at will. AWESOME ! I cant wait to see how this title develops. What makes this even more exciting is the fact that Sony also announced their motion controller tech, they call Sony Move, at E3 too. I wouldn't be surprised if they decide to do this title with the motion controller. How cool would it be to slice through things with that blade as you are actually doing the actions :D .. so maybe im being too ahead of the times :) .. fingers crossed 

Another game that looked equally impressive was Ubisoft's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Heres the live action trailer followed by an game play demo at E3

 

 

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They always makes these cool google chrome ads.

A really cool ad showing off some of chromes features. Brought a smile to my face when i saw the tom and jerry type sequence for the speed. The one for the incognito feature is nice too, the perspective i mean ..

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So I need something in between

I have been twittering and blogging for a while now, trouble is I am one of the laziest bloggers on the planet. Its not that I don't want to write its mostly coz i end up writing insanely long thesis every time i write something on my blog. Which is why I loved the idea of twitter. I could punch away ideas in that 140 char limit and be happy about it. but as things go somethings even that isn't enough. There has to be some middle ground.

some where i can write more casually. which is 140+ characters yet not as composed and edited as my blog posts. something where i can do a brain dump. A lill googlein and I think I might have found the ideal solution. They call it the easiest blogging solution on the planet and so far it proves em right. :)

http://alenchery.posterous.com/

My childhood idol is immortal

Today is probably the worst mornings of my life. I woke up to the shocking news that someone I looked up to like a god, loved and adored is no more. The legend leaves us all with his immortal music. In shock, in total disbelief,mourning and sulking for never have a felt so much pain for the loss of someone I have never even met.

Planning to stay indoors this weekend and watching as much of his videos as I can. I am honored that i was lucky enough to have lived in the same lifetime as him. he IS .. WAS and WILL be the greatest ever single musician who changed the world with his powerful music and amazing dance moves.

Pure Play..

I have been lucky enough to share a house with a fellow who has a PS3 and is as passionate about games as I am, though our tastes in gaming differ. Hes a more Smakdown Vs RAW, Unreal Tournament kinda guy where as I enjoy more strategy based games like Tom Clancy's EndWar.

Which brings me to why I am writing this post. I have been following the trail of a particular game since they announced it. Why you would ask – just coz it just plays to the carnal instincts of every gamer :D.. the urge to bash up ur opponent in the most brutal yet most beautiful way possible. hehe .. sounds insane but trust me i have never had anyone who played it and say they dint enjoy it. The game I am talking about is Street Fighter IV. Watch the gorgeous trailer to see for yourself :)

The plot is simple choose a character and beat each other to pulp. I mean its soo darn simple the game but it gives hours over hours of game play. i mean its soo soo good at what it achieves that they haven't changed the core elements of the games from when it started. They just made it a more beautiful stylised version with a hint of 3D. The character models are gorgeous and the effects and animations smooth as butter. It is in my opinion truly drool worthy and the best part is that the characters say stuff in Japanese i think it is and you have no idea what it is .. but you enjoy they saying it while they do their really crazy moves. This is truly what makes having a games console worth all the money. Cant wait to get my hands on it on February 20th when it releases here. so get ready .. and FIGHT !

Update: apparently theres a movie based on the game being released about the same time called Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li. mm after seeing the trailer im not too thriled about the movie. I liked the last Street Fighter movie with Jaun Claud Van Dam, way back from 1994.