Daily Archives: 19-January-2013

Great Article on Recreating Shackleton's Whiskey

While I am not a drinker, I do admire the impressive technology that Scottish distillers used to duplicate the lost recipe for Shackleton's whiskey. They were even able to identify where the peat used in its formulation came from. Continue reading

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Fond Memories of Fast-Moving Milk Bottles and Toy Boats

Last night on "How It's Made" they were showing machines filling bottles with a beverage. This show stimulated my memories from first-grade when I was shown a 16mm movie about how milk came to our door every morning. I still can remember almost every detail of this movie. The story started with a cow eating grass and ended with a bottle of milk on a kitchen table. What really caught my eye was the filling of the milk bottles by machines. It seemed like magic the way the bottles were put into a fast-moving row, filled while moving in a circle, and then capped. Continue reading

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