A lot of people think an open bottle of wine magically turns into vinegar if you leave it alone too long. Honestly, if you’re the kind of person who forgets about wine bottles for 2 or 3 months in the summer, there are low odds you’ll even be right. You don’t have to leave it up to chance, though. Making your own vinegar from scratch is surprisingly easy.Vinegar is so ancient there aren’t any written histories detailing how it came to exist. That’s where guides like this come in. We gently walk you through the steps necessary to create a “Mother of Vinegar,” explain how to keep everything nice and hygenic, and show you how incredibly easy it is to create your own wine or apple cider based vinegars at home.Vinegar is one of the oldest foods still part of everyday cuisine. People started making it at home not too long after they started making wine. It was considered ancient by the time the early Greek city states got around to citing it in recipes and medicines. Creating your own vinegar at home is a great way to become part of a human culinary tradition dating back to prehistory. Get your fedora and whip. This is going to be fun.