Video: How Bourbon is Made

I've always found the history of various alcoholic drinks to be kind of fascinating, largely because it's usually all about limitations imposed by various authorities - left to your own devises, you could make various alcoholic drinks out of anything.

Gear Patrol visited 12 whiskey distilleries (including Buffalo Trace, Maker's Mark, and Jim Beam) to find out how bourbon is made. 

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How to make your own wrist-mounted X-Men Pyro flamethrowers, Wolverine claws, and Magneto shoes

For hard-core X-Men fans:

First of all, here's the inventor (Colin Furze), who had previously made a set of homemade Wolverine claws and a pair of magnetic Magneto shoes (see below), demonstrating the flamethrowers:

and the tutorial:



Here's a demo of the Wolverine claws:



and the tutorial:



And here he is walking on the ceiling with his homemade Magneto magnetic shoes:

And two tutorials - one for building the shoes and one for walking on the ceiling.  First, making the shoes:

and the ceiling walk:

Check out Colin's youtube channel - he seems to have a penchant for adding jet engines to things like bicycles and strollers.

via Laughing Squid.

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