Turning wine into vinegar

[Ananke]

I was just reading up on making vinegar the other day and up pops this post. I tried to source Mother and the only stuff I could find was raw ACV online and it was really expensive. Where did people get all this stuff before the net?

[bobleponge]

@SBP, I use it as red wine vinegar, its no different to what I buy over here in the shops. If you use red wine vinegar in pickles and chutneys then you could use this stuff.

@Ananke, I found mine over here in France on Fleabay, I seem to remember it costing me less than €5.

[Two_Sheds]

the fruit flys will find it, fall in and the bacteria they carry will turn it into vinegar for you

I was fighting the darn vinegar flies off yesterday while I racked the new elderberry port - because I had both hands full of siphon tube and sieve, I had to resort to foofing them

where do they appear from all of a sudden? I guess they're just milling around on the offchance that someone is going to start making wine

I tend to make my wine during the winter now, when they're all hibernating or dead

[Ananke]

I never thought of checking ebay, thanks bob.