hist-brewing: "An Arab Mead"

[Angus]

--- Jeff Renner <JeffRenner at mediaone.net>
> wrote:
>"Bruce R. Gordon" <obsidian at raex.com> wrote that Owen Hutchins wrote:
>
>>  vinager, specifically
>>>  acetic acid, is biologically oxidized methly alcohol, and can only be formed
>>>  from methyl alcohol.
>
>No, no, no, no, no.  Sorry to be so hard on what you've written, 
>Owen, but I'm afraid you've simply got it wrong.  After all, the word 
>"vinegar" comes from the French "vinaigre," meaning sour wine.  And 
>that is what it is - soured wine (or cider, etc.).

I'm not sure Owen missed the mark completely.  Isn't industrially produced vinegar made with methyl alcohol ?  I can't remember the other reactants though.
/Angus MacIomhair

==
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