Making apple cider vinegar (part 1)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- This video is the first in a new series looking at the craft of home vinegar making.
In this video we look at how to establish a cider vinegar culture from first principles. Future videos will cover:
Feeding the vinegar
Testing vinegar strength
Extracting vinegar
Pasteurising vinegar etc
Music credits:
Artist = Earth Tree Healing
Composer = Claudine West
Website = www.youtube.co...
Everything please. Especially on cider, beer making and all other types of preserving. It used to be a way of life for our family and many other families. Think it is far better for you in the longer term. On the gardening front too as I am a novice on this part. I have grown bits and bobs but need to get a plan sorted for a kitchen garden in the middle of a town. Keep up the excellent work.
I didn't realize it was so simple! Thanks for sharing.
Its another of those "lost household skills". Years ago, every country cottage would have made the vinegar for their pickles and chutneys. I'm hoping to revive that in a small way
I never stop learning from your vids 😊
Right back at you! I've learned a lot from you
You are getting good at this! I am going to have to try making it.
Its really very simple, promise!
Thank you ECL. I asked a question on Insta and as usual Hugh was happy to help. Brilliant stuff, wonderfulchannel, thank you👏👏👏👏
Always good to chat Phil 😁
@@EnglishCountryLife definitely, you can learn so much by talking to folks!
Love the CORK trick and the brown paper cover! Excellent! I wonder if kombucha scoby can be used?
Mother is a form of SCOBY certainly, but I'm not sure whether they are interchangeable
Hi,
Yes, I would love it if you made a video about how to make cider! That'd be awesome.
Look out for it late Autumn!
Mmmm... interesting! I always make my apple cider vinegar with a jar full of chopped organic apples, ,sugar and filtered water.
I've tried that way too, but the results weren't consistent for me when I measured the acidity,.
Very interesting. Thanks for your time.
I'm glad it was interesting!
New subscriber here from Happy Homestead! Great upload, thank you for sharing. I'm super keen to make some vinegar now from our growing homebrew collection. Can't wait to see your future vinegary uploads alluded to within this video. Awesome stuff. 👍 🏴
Hi JW, I have a batch to bottle, test and process soon. I also need to split the mother to supply some to another homestead. I'll be sure and video the process as soon as I get a minute! Thanks for coming over 🙂
@@EnglishCountryLife Sounds awesome stuff! I'll look forward to seeing those. Thank you.
I'll be enjoying your back catalogue in the meantime. All the very best from a rather soggy, wild and windy croft in Caithness (near John O'Groats!).
Thank you, I hope you enjoy them! We are a new channel that have only been going a few months so we are still learning our craft, we aren't as experienced as Happy Homestead! All the best from the soggy Lincolnshire fens!
Absolutely adorable. So glad to have come through from twitter!
Why thank you so much! 😊 I hope our simple country living proves interesting!
Yes, please, show us how you make cider!
(Also, thanks for the clarification for Americans who tend to think apple juice, apple cider, and hard apple cider are different things. And lets not get into pasteurized vs. unpasteurized cider and whether the pasteurized version can be called cider at all.)
With great pleasure. We will harvest our Orchard in September si look for the video around October. I promise no pasteurization and no electricity. All done on a human scale!
Awsome video. How do they do distilled vinegar?
Also would like to know how to make a 10%+ vinegar for a weed killer.
Distilled vinegar is, literally, vinegar that's been through a still. Quite legal to do here because it's not distilling alcohol. If you start with a strong wine (more than 12%) and leave your mother in for several months without feeding it, you should get a 10% vinegar. Hugh
Lol, I love the 'clarifications' for the benefit of the Americans ;-) Slightly disturbed to learn that mother is the result of a fly! (and fly identification must be a dark art!) I do love figs though, and appreciate how they work ... Finally, yes to your cidre making video!
If its better, it's the result of a bacteria that is carried by the fly! 😁
English Country Life I'm pretty cool with beneficial bugs ... we've just purchased 130acre property a bit south of you (quite a bit actually, southwest Western Australia!) and are boning up on the lost arts in anticipation of a good life! I'm recalling everything my grandmothers taught me, augmenting with new insights provided by legends such as yourself. Thanks for all your hard work documenting your hard work!
@@KnackFarmer-theanswerismeat 130 acres is fantastic! Look forward to seeing pictures!
Got my apples stewing in their sugar water as I type. Resisting the urge to seive it too early. Sooo tempting but i want to leave it till 6 wks to make sure i get the right ph level.
Sugar water? I'm assuming that you are using a different method to mine?
Tip:
Sainsburys sells raw unpasteurised apple cider vinegar with mother in it(not as impressive at this one but in form of sediment on the bottom).
There's plenty around but it can be expensive - yet its easy to make!
@@EnglishCountryLife I ment it for those who want to start as a source of mother. It's definitely not the best quality
Looks like a similar process to kombucha with a scobi. Will give this a go but need to source some good apple cider first!
I promise a video on cider making come October! Any home made wine works really well too
When you share this with me the other day I forgot to watch it! It's a great video though. I made big batch of apple vinegar last year from the peels and cores from the dried apples I make. I haven't used it in a while so I'm wondering if there is a mother on it or not now! Need to go check!
If you ever want some mother to feed & make vinegar, let me know & I will sort you some out the next time that I split mine 😉
@@EnglishCountryLife thanks! I'll check and see how my other one is doing! Plenty of fruit flies here though, so should be able to make one.
Can this vinegar be used for pickling maybe onions or eggs?
Great video. Thank You
It certainly could h we love it for pickled cucumber
@@EnglishCountryLife Great😁
Batch is already fermenting
I'm re watching this as I'd like to have a stab at turning a small portion of my rose petal wine into vinegar. Flies are something we have in abundance here in the Australian countryside, so I'm reticent to leave an open jar anywhere near an open window ... but we DO have a commercially available bottle of 'cider vinegar with the mother' handy, do you think we could introduce a bit of this into the wine and kick start it?
If its unpasteurised it should work! It may take a couple of months to get going so be patient. It would be my pleasure to send you some of my mother but I fear it would break Australia import laws?
English Country Life ;-P Yes, Aussie quarantine laws are amongst the most stringent in the world, and in my state of Western Australia, even more so ... thanks for the vote of confidence, have made a start ... And yes, the ACV is unpasteurised, just gave the bottle a good shake before I captured a few tablespoons to my small amount of wine. (Waste not, want not)
Do let us know how it works out! Fingers crossed
Some home brew stores sell mother of vinegar, if you don't want to try and grow your own. Try a local interweb search
Soooo....I HAVE A MOTHER!!! Well, yes, of course, you may say.
Allow me to explain...I really fancied having a bash at making vinegar. Getting hold of mother of vinegar, unless you know someone who makes vinegar, is a pig! Now, I just didn't fancy starting the job with a dead fruit fly. So I managed to find an unpasteurised, organic cider vinegar "with mother". I mixed a good splosh with a bottle of cider, and left well alone for about 2 months. Tonight I remembered it needs to be "fed". And lo & behold! There, gossimar thin, like a delicate slick, on the top of the now rather vinegary smelling cider, was mother! Needless to say, the minute I moved the jar, it sank. I fished it out, and it really IS rubbery, and added more cider to the jar. Now...mother didn't want to float, and I'd no corks handy. But...thread it, or wind it onto a wooden toothpick....Robert is the sibling of one of your parents! Chuffed to little mint balls I am 😊😊😊
Outstanding! You've cracked it!
@@EnglishCountryLife I suspect a small fortune will now be invested in more "drink dispenser" type jars. Ooh! The fun....
🤔🤔🤔....you don't know how to grow your own ginger beer starter doo-dah by any chance.....?
Funny you should say that, was thinking of doing a video on the subject. Ginger Beer plants were really popular when I was at school!
@@EnglishCountryLife Yay!!!
😉👍
Can u please show how to make it from apples not wine 🌷
All natural vinegar comes from alcohol, but the alcohol is consumed by the bacteria
@@EnglishCountryLife yes i know that but I don’t have alcohol to begin with but i have apples that’s why i want to know from scratch
@@rahma8604 I understand. Here's how to make cider from apples
ua-cam.com/video/0hAJ5XkWtLM/v-deo.html