Making Red Wine Vinegar - CRAFT Video Podcast

Red wine vinegar is really easy to make at home. All you need is some leftover red wine, some water, red wine vinegar mother, and a few tools. You can look for red wine vinegar at your local homebrewing shop, but mine was out, so I ordered it online. It's basically "live" red wine vinegar which contains the bacteria Acetobacter, which eats alcohol and turns it into acetic acid, the tangy flavor we know as vinegar. This project appears as an article in CRAFT, Vol. 9 by Alastair Bland. Read more at http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/02/making_red_wine_vinegar_craft.html

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[M0LONLABE]

Can you use a vinegar that is already produced commercially as the starter instead of the mother vinegar?

[makemagazine]

No, as it's already been pasteurized to kill the live culture.

[cambo125]

What about wine?

[qtonic]

Love the outdoor shoot with its lighting and ambient noises. Good job!

[PMarieReinhold]

I started my vinegar about 6 weeks ago. I am using a ceramic container. When I looked inside there is a bit of white mold growing on one side. It also has a sour smell and not the smell of vinegar. Does this mean it has gone bad? What could have I done to avoid this? Can the mother be saved?

[flubno]

do you have to pasturize it ?

[bdbrecheen]

Yours is the only site where I have seen instructions to boil the liquid. Is that a necessary step? Also, do you not add any additional wine to the jar over a period of time to increase the amount? I have read that you need to continually add wine over a period of a few weeks. I want to make sure I get this right. Thanks!

[bdbrecheen]

Yours is the only site where I have seen instructions to boil the liquid. Is that a necessary step? Also, do you not add any additionalwine to the jar over a period of time to increase the amount? I have read that you need to continually add wine over a period of a few weeks. I want to make sure I get this right. Thanks!

[candide1924]

Can I use a mother from apple cider vinegar for red wine?

[plaztikjezuz]

@makemagazine bragg's organic apple cider vinegar has good mother in the bottle.

[johnokeefenostress]

how to you make more volume like 5 gallons of red wine vinegar

[BowlingFreak218]

i have 2 40 liter jugs of red whine vinegar that have been fermenting for 75 years.

im going to sell them both to a private buyer for 2000 dollars

[Zatoichi444]

@aznttboy Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon are the best to use....because they have a higher alcohol content. about 12-14%. the stronger the alcohol, the better the vinegar. buy a glass jug at Target a BIG one with a spigot at the bottom. Leave a little wine at the bottom of a bottle uncovered until you smell that it has changed to vinegar. put it in the BIG glass jug and slowly add wine to it. It will take a few months at first. but after that, just keep adding wine..you won't lose any wine.

[baguk21]

@qw6234 here is how to make and not how to buy.. dumb..duh!!