With all those apple peels left over from the apple grunt, I decided to finally try my hand at making vinegar. I've been itching to do this for awhile and finally emptied the enormous bottle of rice wine vinegar we had, so I had the perfect container for it.
I combined the instructions from Wild Fermentation
and The Herbal Home Remedy Book
. This meant that I put the peels, water and evaporated cane juice in the jar and added a bit of Bragg's apple cider vinegar (with "the mother") to get things started right. And that was really all there was to it! Now we wait...
It's been about a week and there's some definite bubbly action going on. It also smelled initially like sweet cider, but is now smelling more like a sweet wine with some acidic notes. I'm exactly sure how I'll know it's done, I suppose when it smells like vinegar and not like wine. At some point I'll strain out the juice and removed the peels, then let the liquid continue to vinegar-ize until it's nice and zippy. I can't wait to have our own home-brewed vinegar. We've also got a fresh pineapple sitting on the counter that may be destined for a batch of pineapple vinegar!
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