You can call it rocket science without the brains if you like but here's the method I use for making apple cider vinegar. It's basically making apple wine or cider and letting it age to vinegar before bottling, the homesteading way.
You'll need a 5 gallon bucket, apples, sugar, yeast and water. (And a towel to keep fruit flies out).
Mash about 20 cups worth of apples and add to a 5 gallon bucket. (Cooked in a little water, if you're doing it on your own muscle).
Fill the rest of the bucket with warm water.
Add 2 kg sugar (approximately 2 pounds)
1 tsp yeast (you can get fancy and get special wine yeast but my bread yeast works just fine)
Stir
Cover with a towel.
I loosely placed lids on top of the towel to keep the cats from jumping in.
It will start working right away. You can taste test it once a week until the yeast eats all the sugar and turns from wine/cider, to vinegar.
Bottle with the mother (gunk) or strained.
I these four buckets to add a half cup to the goat's water for the winter, to keep them healthy.
Enjoy!
You'll need a 5 gallon bucket, apples, sugar, yeast and water. (And a towel to keep fruit flies out).
Mash about 20 cups worth of apples and add to a 5 gallon bucket. (Cooked in a little water, if you're doing it on your own muscle).
Fill the rest of the bucket with warm water.
Add 2 kg sugar (approximately 2 pounds)
1 tsp yeast (you can get fancy and get special wine yeast but my bread yeast works just fine)
Stir
Cover with a towel.
I loosely placed lids on top of the towel to keep the cats from jumping in.
It will start working right away. You can taste test it once a week until the yeast eats all the sugar and turns from wine/cider, to vinegar.
Bottle with the mother (gunk) or strained.
I these four buckets to add a half cup to the goat's water for the winter, to keep them healthy.
Enjoy!