 throughout the vinegar-making process. Vinegar mothers are nothing more than bacteria that feed on alcoholic liquids.
With your vinegar mother, you have several choices. Use a coffee filter to drain it out and keep using the vinegar as-is. Alternatively, you shouldn’t even try straining it out because the vinegar mother won’t do you any harm.
You can start your own batch of vinegar if you want to get rid of it and use it for something. You can start afresh by adding the mother to white wine. When allowed to run for years, this homemade vinegar process can result in some really amazing, richly flavorful vinegar.