Most vinegar you find at the grocery store is heavily filtered and heat-pasteurized, killing all the microorganisms and stripping it of complex flavor. Since the rise of the industrial revolution, craft vinegar has been widely overtaken by large-scale vinegar production... advances & effeciencies led to market dominance of one common pasturized commercial fruit vinegar - apple cider vinegar - which is a bit boring and hard to love!
"Mother of vinegar” is a substance composed of a biofilm of cellulose and living acetic acid bacteria—best described as a jello-like disc or small globules that naturally occur in fruit vinegars. The mother provides a safe home for the bacteria to transform alcohol into acetic acid, creating vinegar. In post-industrial vinegar making, the mother has been filtered out despite it being completely harmless. In fact, we believe leaving the vinegar mother in brings increased health benefits since the beneficial bacteria aren’t removed from the finished product.
we've taken to fermenting the fruits & crops from ours and neighbor's lands in Palm beach County - bartering when possible - to create our own fruit vinegars to dress our freshly harvested microgreens! Here, we've created living tropical fruit vinegars with great flavors and great gut health benefits. Vinegars that are raw, unfiltered, and always fermented with premium fruits, herbs, flowers spices & vegetables