making your own vinegar?

[ChocolateNummies]

(x-posted in main N&GE forum.)

So I have this bottle of white wine vinegar that has a mother of vinegar in it. How do I use this to make my own new bottle of vinegar? Just add it to wine?

The mother has grown and stayed in this small amount of vinegar so long that the vinegar has broken down to whatever it breaks down to. I tasted a tiny bit and it has an odd watery taste. How long would it take for the mother to die? How do I know if it's still alive?

Also, will this mother work best in white wine again? Or can it be used in red
wine equally successfully?

[CliffRose]

[cristeen]

Yes, just add it to wine. Dont know about using red, though.

[provocativa]

no, don't just add wine. if it's commercial wine, the added sulphites and any other antimicrobials will kill the culture. but you can add biodynamic or organic wine. kosher wine would also probably work- sulphites aren't kosher but i don't know about other stuff. i killed a few mothers with regular wine!

[cristeen]

They put anti-microbials in wine? Dont think i ever want to drink wine again... That skeeves me out. I'm brewing w homemade "wine", didnt realize storebought was so inimical.

[Learning_Mum]

Not helpful at all, but I just wanted to say that I've never heard of mother of vinegar before so I looked it up and it totally grossed me out!

[ChocolateNummies]

Originally Posted by Learning_Mum

Not helpful at all, but I just wanted to say that I've never heard of mother of vinegar before so I looked it up and it totally grossed me out!

I know what you mean.

Thanks for the tips! Keeping that my first attempt is successful.

[potatofairy]

i've propagated cider vinegar mothers by adding the mother to more cider.... it looked sort of like a kombucha scobie.

i wonder if you could just add the mother to juice?

[BedHead]

I was wondering this the other day - I bought a huge glass jug of organic apple cider because it was on sale and I liked the jug and I have raw unfiltered ACV - it doesn't have a scoby or anything but it does have tendrils......could I make more ACV with that?