[outmowed]

Hi all
I recently pickled some beetroot , about a month ago to be nearly precise, when i opened it the other day it just smelt and tasted of the vinager, not nice at all. Anyway, i have used the correct jars and i sterilized them first but i used just normal white distilled malt vinager, is that the wrong sort. 

[tode]

I think that's pretty rough stuff. It's worth paying a bit more for a decent malt or wine vinegar.  You're going to be eating it, after all   

[Ice]

Give it more time, the vinegar matures and mellows out.

[titch]

i added sugar to mine when i pickled them to sweeten it up a little and so far so good i think.......... vinegar tends to take my breath away 

[Spana]

I add sugar to mine as well, tastes much nicer to me.  I use malt vinegar for pickled beetroots and distilled vinegar for red tomato chutney as it help to keep the colour bright.

[scabs]

B*gger, I bought white distilled too and my beetroot is boiling away right now. How much sugar do you guys put in?

[Spana]

I put a tablespoon of sugar to a pint of vinegar.  It sounds a lot but i dont drink the vinegar

I cant see why the distilled vinegar wont be ok.  I would use it if it was what I had.

[scabs]

Thanks Spana, I'm on it, pink fingers and all!

[tode]

Just tried some of ours, that we made about a month ago. Wife's reaction (never having tastef pickled beetroot before) :    " Ah, la vache ! "        

[scabs]

The cow?  

I know it needs to settle, but I had a little taster this morning and it's fine.

[tode]

Don't like puyying sugar in everything, but maybe it could do with just a hint of something sweet . . 

[scabs]

I must admit I wasn't keen, but it certainly seems to have worked.

[tode]

Must be cat's hairs in the keyboard now. Its a long time since I've puyyed sugar.   

[Spana]

I just thought it was a french word for added

[tode]