How to Make White Wine Vinegar
White wine vinegar can be made right at home. All you need is some white wine and few more items. Making white wine vinegar is a great way to use up half-empty bottles of white wine that have been rattling around in the refrigerator for a while. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- A 1 gallon glass or ceramic crock with a spigot
- Vinegar mother
- White wine
- Cheesecloth
- Rubber band or string
- Empty glass bottles
Instructions
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Purchase a 1 gallon glass or ceramic crock with a spigot. Your vinegar will live here.
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Buy an 8 oz. bottle of commercial vinegar mother from a beer or wine making store. This can also be found on the Internet.
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Pour 2 cups of white wine diluted with 1 cup of water into the crock.
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Add the vinegar mother to the crock.
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Cover the crock with cheesecloth and attach it securely with a rubber band or string.
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Place the crock in a warm place where it can sit undisturbed.
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Add 2 1/2 cups white wine to the crock three times over the next two weeks.
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Let the crock sit a total of 12 weeks minimum.
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Bottle the vinegar when it tastes and smells like vinegar. Pour it into clean bottles or jars with a funnel. It will last for three or four months.
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Make more vinegar, if you want, by leaving the vinegar mother in the crock and repeating this process.
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Tips & Warnings
Vinegar mother is a colony of bacteria which converts the wine into vinegar. Vinegar mother is the same for white wine vinegar and red wine vinegar. It's the wine that makes the difference.
It takes longer to make white wine vinegar than red wine vinegar, up to six months. You just have to taste test it and when it tastes like vinegar it's done.
White wine vinegar can be cloudy. You can filter it with a coffee filter.
You don't have to bottle the vinegar. Some people just use what they need and add a little wine to the crock.
If the vinegar goes bad or otherwise doesn't taste and smell like vinegar, toss it out and start over.
