Homemade wine vinegar - Update

[wdonovan]

Interesting..... The book that I got said the mix was 50% wine, 25% water, 25% mother and even suggested that if the wine was over ~12-13% alcohol, you should further dilute the mixture. I thought that the little "vinegar critters" (whatever they are) would possibly die from alcohol poisoning if the alc. content was too high. So... I followed the only lead I had. Understand that this book was written by some housewife out on the prairies somewhere. It had only about a postcard's worth of information 'crammed' into 50 or 60 pages.
BTW Where were you guys when I started this project? Now I've got all kinds of Tuesday morning quarterbacks <LOL>.