Red Wine Vinegar Mother

White Wine Vinegar Mother Pellicle with Starter White Wine Vinegar and Instructions.

Make Your Own Vinegar

Now you can easily make an endless supply of your own, natural, live red wine vinegar for cooking, healthy living and more!

What is included:
- 1 piece (about 4” in diameter) of concentrated red wine vinegar mother (the solid part of a vinegar culture which includes colonies of the bacterium Acetobacter Aceti floating on cellulose raft). 
- 1/4 cup of natural, live, unfiltered, unpasteurized red wine vinegar liquid culture to give the Mother some room to grow.

Instructions & How It Works:
Acetobacter turns ethanol (the alcohol in wine) into acetic acid (the acid in vinegar), and produces cellulose along the way, which, after a time, can become big enough to make a solid disc that floats on the surface of the vinegar culture. Liquid part of the Mother is also contains billions of near-invisible colonies of Acetobacter suspended in the live, liquid culture.

What you will need:
- Red wine (preferably with as low sulphites as possible);
- A glass or pottery wide-mouthed vessel with a loose-fitting lid;
- Clean cheesecloth or paper coffee filter;
- A few weeks to let the Mother grow.