How to make your own Apple Cider Vinegar

This is the official ACV blog post and exactly what you need to level up your homesteading skills for the future apocalypse. Just kidding but it is a cool skill to have to use fresh and or leftover apples from each growing season or when you forget about “all dem apples” in your fridge.

Find out Why I am obsessed with homemade apple cider vinegar aka ACV by reading this blog post below.

The world is full of consumers and not enough creators. Making apple cider vinegar is just one way I get to tap into my creative side while harnessing my inner house witch.

The Apple Cider Vinegar Blog is a great way to learn how to offer yourself a homemade medicinal tonic that can help your body, and your health in more than one way. Also, Store bought ACV is too vinegary and the flavors are less robust compared to the homemade version.  Plus, homemade salad dressing is extra special when you blend it with homemade ACV. I also love being able to offer a bottle to a friend who loves it just as much as me. 

The other great part about homemade ACV is you get to make apple picking apart of your routine when apples are in season and allow the food of your neighbor hood to become a staple in your fridge and pantry.

Another bonus of apple picking is it a fun free exercise and great way to bond with your God Daughter, niece, husband, best friend and/or community. Find your local apple plug today, I have two and one is just a local neighborhood apartment complex that planted a shit ton of apples out front and honestly no single tenant or human is taking advantage of this apple situation.

When you pick and eat local apples you are also connecting your self to nature and the food chain that keeps us alive and healthy.  Plus, when apple picking you will have an abundance of apples and your ACV skills will come in handy. You can use apple scraps from that left over apple pie and/or pretty old apples in general as long as they aren’t moldy to make your homemade batches of ACV. 

Are you Not sure how to make ACV? Here is Boomer’s 6 step ACV Recipe. I have made about 12 batches in this lifetime over the past 5 years and that fact that it is so easy and tastes 100% better than store bought ACV is just one of the reasons why I am obsessed with homemade apple cider vinegar and why I decided to write The Apple Cider Vinegar Blog.

• Step 1: Get about 10-20 apples depending on size of vessel (let’s use a gallon for this recipe). Fill up vessel half way with chopped up apples and skins, seeds and all. 

• Step 2: Fill vessel with 1 cup of sugar for every gallon of water. Stir until sugar has dissolved. 

• Step 3: Cover apples with mesh cloth, rubber and and tea towel. Place in cool dark place.

• Step 4: Stir apples every day , for next 3-4 weeks. Mark due date on calendar (Don’t forget both parts of this step, apples can go moldy if you forget to consistently place apples on top with the ones on bottom and I am not sure what happens if you let the apples keep going for longer, I have never done it , so write that 3 week out date down bud.)

• Step 5: Remove apples between weeks 3 & 4. Replace mesh cover and tea towel and put in cool dark place for 3-4 weeks. Mark this due date down too!

• Step 6: Congratulations, You made your first batch of ACV and it’s time to bottle it up. You will need a funnel for easy bottling and some bottles or mason jars.

I drink ACV every day because I feel the benefits and see the benefits but then I asked myself what are the benefits and What is this ACV obsession actually providing? I wanted to dig deeper and do a little research.

So, turns our there hasn’t been enough animal or human studies to prove that ACV offers any health benefits at all but let’s take a closer look at what I think ACV can do for you if you start incorporating it into your diet. 

Drinking ACV everyday helps Rehydrate your cells, body and provides a mini Vitamin/Mineral Boost

It is a Myth that ACV can help raise your PH, a health body does this on it own.

However, I think if you are dehydrated and/or hungover adding a splash (tablespoon or two) of ACV in to your 8 oz of water in the am is a great way to help your stomach feel a little better and help rehydrate you in the morning. We all wake up dehydrated and this is a great way to add a small dowse of vitamins and minerals into your body first thing in the AM. 

Also, our bodies are always leaning toward the acidic side, so by eating and drinking less acidic foods you will only help your body maintain a healthy PH.  A body is healthy when it gets to experience healthy food and healthy living. 

It is a myth that ACV helps with spot treating acne, dandruff in your hair, or fungus on your feet; however have you tried it on your pimples, in your hair or on your feet?

If you haven’t it is about time you start. If there isn’t enough research on ACV benefits that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have enough benefits.  I have a friend who religiously puts it in her hair and her hair is always looking healthy, long and vibrant.  I make my husband soak his gross ass toenails into ACV when and if we can find the time to make him do it but consistency is the key. And If he cared he would do it everyday and it would work faster but I’ll take what I can get with him and his “self-care” time.

ACV isn’t a quick fix to any of your health problems but she sure is a good side kick to have in your medicine cabinet. 

I have even cured an eye stye and Chalazion by applying ACV on a q-tip religiously until it was gone. Use this tonic to your advantage by incorporating into what your body needs when it needs it. Let your intuition be your guide. 

The following vitamins and minerals are naturally occurring in apples, so they should be present in ACV as well: Apple cider vinegar is fermented juice from crushed apples; Like apple juice, it probably contains some pectin; vitamins B1, B2, and B6; biotin; folic acid; niacin; pantothenic acid; and vitamin C. It also contains small amounts of the minerals sodium, phosphorous, potassium, calcium, iron, and magnesium. Source: (https://www.rxlist.com/apple_cider_vinegar/supplements.htm#Overview)

If this isn’t enough for you to believe in miracle of homemade ACV, than maybe you should consider that the Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom became stockholders in the biggest apple cider vinegar company Braggs. Checkout this article and see for yourself but there are litigations that they did some recipe tweaking to make the ACV “more sustainable.” But she isn’t involved in the day to day operations so this is just the media taking advantage of a situation in terms of ACV sales increasing over the last two years during the pandemic. If you do look into it Cult-like customers of the brand have started to complain about the difference in color, flavor and consistency. It might of been just a batch that was difference in color and flavor but this is also a sign of shittier, pestcide ridden apples which is another blog post entirely . So it makes you wonder what type of sustainability measure did they take or are they watering it down to save on costs. You can see for yourself in this photo a customer posted comparing the two bottles after the change in ownership in the article link above.

More than ever being in control of what goes in your body matters. Start by making your first batch of ACV this year.