Make your own apple cider vinegar Part two

Posted by Tricia on 22 July 2012 | 0 Comments

Tags: apple. cider, vinegar, mother, juice, homemade

I figured it was time I got around to straining off my apple cider vinegar. See  Make your own cider vinegar Part one. Well over a year has passed since I had put it down and it was a grey and rainy Sunday, just perfect for mucking around in the kitchen. Read the full post.

Here are some of my old flagon bottles filled with last years apple juice. Now they have quite a dense sediment on the bottom and ideally a good plug of dense jellyish stuff on the uppermost surface of the liquid.

Strain the vinegar off into clean bottles. I used a small  funnel with a piece of clean cotton cloth over top to collect most of the sediment.

Try not to disturb the sediment too much whilst you pour your vinegar into the clean bottles. Some of the sediment will get through your cloth and that is ok. Over time this should  form a 'mother' in your finished product.

I gave them all the taste test. One tasted musty and another batch was too bland so these both were thrown out. The rest tasted really nice. Sharp and strong.

Enough vinegar for a few years here! Organic, homemade and packed with goodies for your digestive system. Each bottle has a slightly different flavour and acidity. Surprisingly the lighter ones are stronger than the darker ones. I think I'll be having a shot each morning before my breakfast! Cheers!