Harold McGee

Distilled Vinegars

Appears in
On Food and Cooking
On Food and Cooking

By Harold McGee

Published 2004

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Distilled vinegar in the United States is white vinegar made with distilled alcohol; in the United Kingdom, it’s vinegar that is made by acetic fermentation of unhopped beer, and then distilled to concentrate the acetic acid.

From the book On Food and Cooking (2nd edition) by Harold McGee. © 2004 Harold McGee. By permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.