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Gardeneer · April 7, 2018

My Sltory.
I started some , moths ago, from my tomato wine. No mother vinegar. So I thought addling some Balsamic vinegar to it. I have a 1/3 full bottle of itm. Hmmm !surprize ! There were several MV at the bottom. So i fish them out and put them in my vinegar making batch.
What is going on with Balsamic vinegar ? Where did the mother com from ?
My theory is that the BV must,ve had unfinished wine in it, plust some sweet stuff. So the yeast converted the sugar to alcoloe and the vinegar bacteria conveted it into vinegar and formed MV.
Interesting development.

April 7, 2018	#43
Gardeneer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7 Posts: 4,909	My Sltory. I started some , moths ago, from my tomato wine. No mother vinegar. So I thought addling some Balsamic vinegar to it. I have a 1/3 full bottle of itm. Hmmm !surprize ! There were several MV at the bottom. So i fish them out and put them in my vinegar making batch. What is going on with Balsamic vinegar ? Where did the mother com from ? My theory is that the BV must,ve had unfinished wine in it, plust some sweet stuff. So the yeast converted the sugar to alcoloe and the vinegar bacteria conveted it into vinegar and formed MV. Interesting development. __________________ Gardeneer Happy Gardening !