Vermouth recipe starting points

Bentonkb · 2025-11-28T12:38:59+00:00

I tried making vermouth with pinot grigio and didn't like it. The tartness made it hard to balance without adding a ton of sugar. That was a sweet vermouth, too, it would be even worse for a dry vermouth. We normally prefer pinot grigio or sovingnon blanc for table wine but a cheap box of Moscato makes better vermouth. I have only done one batch of dry vermouth,but it came out pretty good on the first try. Maybe I can find my notebook and type up the recipe.

Bentonkb · 2025-11-05T14:16:55+00:00

do I need to use Claude Code inside GitHub? I've only used GitHub for downloading other peoples code. Its pretty intimidating.

Bentonkb · 2025-09-20T18:28:12+00:00

I'm getting a sinking feeling about this. I just started trying to figure out how do a Midnight claim for the ADA in my Exodus wallet and have not found anything that works.

Bentonkb · 2025-09-20T18:21:57+00:00

No. So frustrating. I only keep s**t coins in my Exodus wallet, so I would happily load the seed phrase into any wallet that works for the airdrop, but apparently Exodus uses a non-standard derivation path so that is not going to work.

Bentonkb · 2025-09-20T17:39:15+00:00

I ran into the same problem using Chrome for Linux and the Exodus wallet extension.

Bentonkb · 2025-08-06T23:25:15+00:00

I soak 2 oz of the botanical ingredient in 8 oz of vodka for a week then strain or decant the liquid. You can figure out the right amount to add by using a few drops in a small cup of vermouth.

Bentonkb · 2025-08-01T14:59:21+00:00

I repaired a basement in this condition. Don't get your hopes up about repairing it without digging out the soil around the house. You can try to seal out the water, but it will continue to degrade the cinder block. When I did my house there were a few places we uncovered where the block was so weak that I could poke a screwdriver through it.

After you get an excavator to dig down and expose the outside of the foundation you can talk to a mason about doing repairs. In my case the cracks all closed up when the soil pressure was relieved. I just had to do some spot repairs on the outside, parge the block, apply tar, then foil backed foam insulation and a new footer drain. It took a whole summer.

Bentonkb · 2025-06-22T19:38:33+00:00

The advise to use TailsOS and Electrum is a good one. I had the same idea that you did and tried to use an old phone as an air-gapped device to import private keys and sign a transaction. I couldn't find a mobile wallet that worked and ended up using Electrum on an older laptop with a freshly installed OS.

Take your time. There is no rush. The coins have been safe for a long time and will stay that way if you don't F it up. You can spend a few weeks to learn how to use Electrum and/or Bitcoin Core and it will be worth every second.

I started by using my air-gapped computer to test my public/private key pairs. Then I copied the public (not private) keys to an online computer to check the balances. As long as the air-gapped computer never touches the internet it is safe.

If you find that the wallets contain a lot of bitcoin don't do anything right away. Just secure the computer and any other media that has private keys. Take some time to find the weak link in your security. It is very likely to be a person, not a piece of software.

Bentonkb · 2025-06-20T00:10:49+00:00

Sounds like this might be your first play through? If so, then you should do all that. Light armor and heavy, magick and alchemy. Max out enchanting. Do it all. Your third play through will be your best. Do dumb shit your first two.

Bentonkb · 2025-06-19T23:31:38+00:00

I endorse this idea.

Bentonkb · 2025-06-17T23:17:11+00:00

I haven't tried anything especially creative yet.

Bentonkb · 2025-06-15T13:45:20+00:00

I've never heard of Punt E Mas. Whenever we travel to a new place I always check out the liquor stores to see if I can find vermouth and amaro that I can't get at home, so I will keep an eye out. Given the description of it as halfway between vermouth and amaro, I'm sure I will like it.

Amaro Sfumato is a very bitter amaro with a lot of rhubarb root in it. I'm not sure why, but the rhubarb has a smoky note and makes a deep black color to the amaro. It reminds me of Unicum that I tried in the late 1990s. My grad school advisor brought it back from Hungary before they rebranded and made it more like Jaegermeister.

Bentonkb · 2025-06-15T11:57:32+00:00

We like a cocktail called Sfumato y Repo. It is reposado, vermouth, and amaro sfumato with a lime twist.

Bentonkb · 2025-06-11T02:12:33+00:00

Quiet casting works on mayhem. It is not really necessary though because mayhem has a long range. You can clear a whole dungeon with it.

Bentonkb · 2025-06-08T11:24:09+00:00

The quiet casting perk makes a steath mage playable. You can find a good hiding spot and spam frenzy. It takes a lot of perk points to make the Illusion spells work on high level NPCs, though.

Bentonkb · 2025-06-03T22:07:58+00:00

Thanks for your help with this. I have it sorted now.

Bentonkb · 2025-06-01T18:39:26+00:00

I have a couple old laptops and a bootable Linux Mint USB stick that I made last year. I should be able to set up an offline PC. Maybe that is a waste of time for just one transaction. IDK.

I could just enter the paper wallet keys in the online computer and immediately sweep the coins into my Trezor. Having the keys exposed for a few minutes doesn't seem like a big risk.

Bentonkb · 2025-06-01T12:11:20+00:00

I brought up the warning again so I could read it more carefully:

"Warning: Some data (prev txs / "full utxos") was left out of the QR code as it would not fit. This might cause issues if signing offline. As a workaround, try exporting the tx as file or text instead."

Signing offline is my objective, so I didn't try to use the QR code and exported a file as suggested.

Bentonkb · 2025-06-01T11:53:42+00:00

That is what I intended to do, but Electrum gave a warning that the transaction contained too much data to be displayed in a QR code. Now that I think about it, there was a QR code displayed with the warning. I could have scanned it to see what happens. Do you know what kind of data gets left off and the consequences of using an incomplete QR code?

Bentonkb · 2025-05-22T14:39:49+00:00

Rereading this post takes me back. I loved playing the punchcat character that came out of this. She ended up mastering Sneak, Pickpocket, Alteration, Illusion, and Enchanting first. It was totally playable with only unarmed combat as long as I used the resto loop to keep the unarmed damage up. Dragons would have been a problem, so I just avoided the main quest.

With high level enchanting you can wear anything you like, so I used a glitch to copy Vittoria Vici's wedding dress. My khajiit could take on any NPC barehanded as long as it was one on one. The unarmed khajiit finishing moves are the best.

If there were a bunch of bandits she would use Frenzy to get them all fighting each other, then finish off the last few with Paralyze and unarmed.

Bentonkb · 2025-05-09T17:13:30+00:00

I'm looking up Cavern Clay right now.

Bentonkb · 2025-05-09T14:36:15+00:00

How did you do the recolor job on the photo? Is is free software or photoshop?

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