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Vinegar Making at Home

Since 1998 · By PhD chemical engineers
Inventors of the vinegar reactor
Authors of specialist books

On the Vinegar Making site, you will find everything you need to learn to make vinegar. We offer both “How to make vinegar”-courses and vinegar production books. In our shop you can buy everything for making vinegar yourself – from the vinegar making equipment to analysis equipment and yeast. Here you also find a lot of free information in our “How to make homemade vinegar”-tools, we run technical forums and one for vinegar making recipes, a free Newsletter and provide online vinegar calculations for all the necessary formulae, e.g. for determining the acidity of vinegar.

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Courses – Make Your Own Vinegar

In our practical vinegar making classes, you ferment using the surface process and the generator process with a vinegar generator, so during this course you can perform all the individual steps yourself and use our vinegar making equipment to make vinegar. Naturally this also includes learning how to analyze and calculate the required quantities of acid, alcohol and water for making vinegar successfully. You can also try out a great variety of vinegars during the vinegar making workshop.

OCT 2026

23. & 24.

OPEN

COST: 420,- (incl. 20% VAT)
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Vinegar Online Course

These courses on making vinegar can be completed at your own pace and irrespective of your location. We offer a complete vinegar making course in which you will learn all the steps for making vinegar yourself in a hands-on way. There are also short videos to learn making vinegar that explain individual key points for making vinegar yourself.

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Books to Make Vinegar

If you would like to ferment vinegar yourself, then you will find out all the steps in The Artisanal Vinegar Maker’s Handbook – from the fruit harvest, alcohol and vinegar fermentation to storage – in a hands-on way, so that nothing should now prevent you achieving the perfect vinegar. You will also find numerous vinegar making recipes in the book for fermented vinegars (balsamic vinegar, herb vinegar, wine vinegar, apple vinegar, etc.) and infused vinegars.

The Artisanal Vinegar Marker’s HandbookRead our book The Vinegar Maker’s Handbook to learn how to make high-grade vinegar at home. The book describes the whole process of fermenting vinegar and explains necessary equipment for vinegar production.

€29.95

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€19.90

eBooks to Make Vinegar

Would you like to make vinegar yourself and are looking for vinegar recipes and a short instruction for distilling schnapps? You can download our eBooks immediately and start making vinegar.

How to Make Vinegar at HomeHow to make vinegar from wine, must, brandy, or juice? How do you breed a mother of vinegar? How do I make the perfect starting mixture? What equipment do I need? Learn the basics step-by-step in a short guide to making vinegar.

€9,00

Vinegar RecipesOver 300 different recipes and basic recipes for vinegar making. Do-it-yourself vinegar recipes. Classics such as apple cider vinegar, wine vinegar, and balsamic vinegar, as well as more unusual recipes.

€15,00

Know-How

To ferment vinegar yourself, you need not only the materials, but also the respective know-how. You can perform all the vinegar calculations free of charge and without registration or participate in the various forums – Making Vinegar at home. Also observe our free Newsletter and the 6 rules for buying or building your own vinegar generator. In our short guide – What ist Vinegar? you will find out how to make vinegar in 5 steps.

Specialist Questions

My filtered mash has stalled. It has about 10% alcohol and an SG of 1.063. How do I go about restarting the alcoholic fermentation with such high sugar and alcohol levels?

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Generator and Equipment

In our shop, you will find all the vinegar making equipment: a vinegar generator, acetic acid and alcohol analysis kit, yeast, books. We offer only selected branded goods, and our generators are made exclusively for us.

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