quick vinegar

English

Noun

quick vinegar (uncountable)

  1. Vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material.
    • 1848, Andrew Ure, “On Acetic Acid”, in Pharmaceutical Journal‎, volume 7, page 330:
      Dr. Kastner prescribes the following manner of making a malt wine for the quick vinegar process […]
    • 1905, Bertram Blount, Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers‎, page 236:
      In the other, a large surface of the liquid is exposed to the air, which is cause to circulate over it, so that the process is completed in a far shorter time, on which account it is called the "quick vinegar process."
    • 1914, William Theodore Brannt, A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Vinegar‎, page 39:
      His experiments proved successful, and soon after the quick vinegar process was generally adopted.
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