Red Wine Vinegar Mother | Mother Of Vinegar | Vinegar Starter | Red Wine Vinegar | All Natural | SCOBY | Probiotic | Make Your Own Vinegar

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NOW AVAILABLE WITH LIMITED EDITION ENGRAVED GLASS SWING-TOP BOTTLE
This delightful 4 oz bottle is engraved with our own design and the words "Home Made Red Wine Living Vinegar Culture". It's cute and perfect for giving (including to yourself, or re-gifting YOUR home-made vinegar to a loved one)!
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You'll love how easy it is to make an endless supply of your own, natural, live red wine vinegar!
Your taste buds will love how much better home made vinegar is!
Enjoy the many benefits of a live, probiotic, cultured food!
Use for cooking, giving, healthy living and more!

A NOTE ON SHIPPING:
Your new mother is very hardy, but you'll want to treat her like the living being she is.
We will package her very carefully.
We encourage you to choose the USPS PRIORITY shipping option, especially if temperatures will be over 100 F anywhere along the route from Portland, OR, to you.

You will receive:
1 (generous) ounce of concentrated red wine vinegar mother solids*
4 (generous) ounces natural, live, unfiltered, unpasteurized red wine vinegar liquid culture*
(These amounts are ideal for giving mother room to grow in her new home.)
Complete instructions and resources.

*Vinegar mother is the name given to the solid part of a vinegar culture. The solid parts include colonies of the bacterium Acetobacter aceti floating on rafts of cellulose. Acetobacter turns ethanol (the alcohol in wine) into acetic acid (the acid in vinegar), and makes cellulose along the way. After a time, the cellulose can become big enough to make an impressive disc that floats on the surface of the vinegar culture (sometimes mistakenly called a SCOBY, a word used by people who make kombucha).

Many vinegar mother offers (on Etsy and elsewhere) focus on these cellulose discs but it's the billions of near-invisible colonies suspended in the live, liquid culture that form the real, hardworking mother of vinegar. As your vinegar culture matures, it will start forming discs like those shown in the pictures.

You will need:
Your favorite red wine to share with mother.
A glass or pottery crock with a loose-fitting lid.
Clean cheesecloth or a clean tea towel.
A few weeks.

Our vinegar mother has been alive for decades. We use her vinegar in our herbal extracts and tonics.
She is extremely temperature hardy.
We feed her only the best wines, many of which we make ourselves.

Does your taste run to white wine and apple cider vinegar? You'll love our other offers!