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Apple Cider Vinegar Dressing
Apple cider vinegar makes a friendlier dressing than most vinegars. It has natural fruit sweetness behind the acid, which means you need less oil to balance it and often no honey at all. It is the easiest place to start if your homemade dressings have been coming out harsh.
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Apple Cider Vinegar with the Mother
Apple cider vinegar with the mother is raw, unfiltered and unpasteurized, which means the cloudy strands of cellulose and bacteria that formed during fermentation are still in the bottle. That is the mother. Most supermarket cider vinegar has been filtered and heat-treated until it is clear, stable and considerably less interesting.
View collection Apple Cider Vinegar with the MotherBarrel-Aged Vinegar
Barrel aging is the part of vinegar making that cannot be rushed, and it is the reason a craft vinegar tastes composed where an industrial one tastes hot. Everything in this collection has spent months in oak at our mill in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Beer Malt Vinegar
Real malt vinegar is fermented from beer, not from grain alcohol with caramel coloring added. That is the whole difference, and it is the reason most people think they dislike malt vinegar when what they actually dislike is non-brewed condiment.
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Buy Vinegar Online Collection
Buying vinegar online has one obvious problem: you cannot taste it first. Here is how to choose well anyway, and what to expect when it arrives.
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California Sherry Vinegar
Sherry vinegar is the finishing vinegar. It is nuttier and rounder than wine vinegar, with an oxidized depth that comes from long aging in wood, and a few drops at the end of cooking will do more for a dish than a whole spoonful of something sharper at the start.
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Cider Vinegars
We slow-craft each batch of American Vinegar Works apple cider vinegar from exceptional local apples. We rebuilt a traditional fermentation method from 1823 to slow ferment all of our vinegars for a greater depth of flavor. Fermentation is followed by extensive barrel aging to capture the deep, complex flavors of the original fruit. This distinct method delivers a smooth, robust acidity to enhance your home cooking or apple cider vinegar-based drinks or routines. You can buy apple cider vinegar online directly from our website for fast shipping. Or use our store locator to purchase a bottle of American Vinegar Works in person.
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Featured
The bottles people buy most, and the ones we would hand you first if you walked into the mill.
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Fermented Flavors Vinegar
Co-fermented vinegar is made by fermenting the fruit, honey or spice alongside the base rather than steeping it in afterwards. It takes longer and costs more, and it is the reason these taste integrated instead of flavored.
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Flavored ACV Collection
Flavored apple cider vinegar usually means plain cider vinegar with something added at the end. Ours is co-fermented, so the fruit or spice goes in during fermentation and comes out as part of the vinegar. All of these are raw, unfiltered and carry the mother.
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Full Vinegar Collection
This is everything we make: barrel-aged wine vinegars, raw apple cider vinegars with the mother, malt vinegars fermented from real beer, junmai rice vinegar, sherry, honey and the gift sets built from them. If you are buying craft vinegar online for the first time, start here and narrow down.
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Gifts and Gear
Gourmet food gifts fail for one of two reasons: they are things nobody actually eats, or they are things the recipient already has a worse version of. Craft vinegar and olive oil avoid both. Almost everyone cooks with them, almost nobody owns a good one, and the difference is obvious the first time they make a dressing.
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Gourmet ACV Blends
These are the apple cider vinegars worth putting on the table rather than keeping under the sink. All raw, all unfiltered, all with the mother, and all made from real pressed cider rather than reconstituted juice.
View collection Gourmet ACV BlendsHoney Wine Vinegar
Honey vinegar is mead vinegar: honey fermented into wine, then fermented again into vinegar, then aged in oak. It is one of the oldest vinegars there is and one of the least common on a shop shelf, because honey is expensive and the process is slow.
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Nano Batch Vinegar
Some of what we make never gets to a real production run. A single barrel, a short season, a fruit that was only good for two weeks. These are the small runs, and when they are gone they are usually gone until the ingredient comes back around.
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Olive Oil
California olive oil has one clear advantage over most imported supermarket bottles: you can tell how old it is. Olive oil is a fresh product that degrades from the moment it is pressed, and a lot of what sits on shelves has spent a long time in transit and storage.
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Olive Oil and Vinegar
An olive oil and vinegar gift set is the pantry gift that gets used up rather than pushed to the back of a cupboard. The two ingredients only work as a pair anyway: good oil without good vinegar makes a dull dressing, and good vinegar without good oil makes a harsh one.
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Rice Wine Vinegar
Rice wine vinegar is the gentlest vinegar in a well-stocked kitchen. Low in harshness, clean on the finish, and delicate enough that it seasons raw fish, cucumber and dressed rice without flattening them. It is also naturally gluten free, which matters if malt and some grain vinegars are off the table for you.
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Small Batch Vinegar Collection
Small batch is a phrase that has been worn thin by marketing, so here is what it means at our mill: a run is limited by how many oak barrels we can keep occupied for months at a time, not by how much we could sell. That constraint is the product.
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Sweet vinegar is not sugared vinegar. Everything in this collection gets its roundness from what it was fermented with, not from sweetener added afterwards: honey, maple, quince, ripe fruit. The result is a vinegar you can use more freely, because the sweetness balances the acid instead of masking it.
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The Craft Vinegar Collection
Single bottles, no sets. If you already know which vinegar you want, or you are replacing one you have finished, this is the straightforward list.
View collection The Craft Vinegar CollectionVinegar Sampler Set Collection
A vinegar sampler set is the low-risk way to find the bottle you will actually reach for. Each set holds mini bottles of our slow-fermented, barrel-aged vinegar, so you can taste the difference across styles before committing to a full-size bottle.
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Vinegar Sampler Size Sets
A vinegar sampler set is the honest way to buy craft vinegar. Mini bottles, several styles, one price, and no risk of committing to a full-size bottle of something you turn out not to like. Most people find their bottle in the first week and then never buy supermarket vinegar again.
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White Wine Vinegar
White wine vinegar is the one bottle that makes almost everything else on your counter taste sharper. It is lighter and less assertive than red, which is why it is the default for delicate vinaigrettes, beurre blanc, quick pickles and anything where you want brightness without the color or the weight.
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Wine Vinegar
Wine vinegar is fermented from actual wine, which is why it carries grape character the way distilled vinegar never can. This collection covers the reds, the whites and the ones in between, all slow-fermented and aged in oak.
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X-Large Size Bottles
Every vinegar in this collection comes in a 32oz glass bottle rather than the standard 8.5oz. If you already know which one you use, the large format is the cheaper way to buy it and means you stop rationing something you should be pouring freely.
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