Red Wine Vinegar
Making vinegar is an excellent zero waste tool. Don't pour old or corked wine down the drain, you can easily turn it into fabulous vinegar!
Ingredients
- Red Wine can be stale, corked, or even wine you don't like. Any amount.
- Water
- Vinegar Mother Use one from another batch of vinegar you made or from a bottle of raw apple cider vinegar with the mother, like Bragg's.
Instructions
- Pour your wine into a clean, wide-mouthed, non-metallic vessel, filling it 1/2 to 3/4 full.
- Add half amount of water as you have wine. For example, if you have 16 oz. wine, add 8 oz. water
- Add vinegar mother.
- Cover the top of the vessel with cheesecloth, coffee filter, or flour sack towel and use a rubberband to hold it in place.
- Put your jar in a dark, room temperature location. Cover with a towel to keep out the light.
- Check your jars every couple of weeks. Smell and taste to see how it's progressing.
- Continue this for a couple of months to let vinegar develop. Smell and taste the solution to determine when it’s the tartness you want and that no alcohol remains.
- Strain and transfer to a smaller, narrow neck bottle and seal tightly to keep from oxidizing. Save the mother for a future batch.