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Ingredient 74 · Vinegars & acids

South African brown spirit vinegar

The traditional single vinegar of South African biltong. A 5% acetic spirit vinegar coloured and softened with caramel, so it carries a malty sweetness that plain distilled vinegar does not. Replaced the five-vinegar blend at revision 7. Not easily found outside South African importers in Europe.

Item no. 74
Aisle Vinegars & acids
Density 1.01 g/ml
Recipes 1
Also called
brown spirit vinegarbruinasynSA brown vinegarspirit vinegar, brown

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Substitutes

two

Black malt vinegar

Ingredient 77

Apple cider vinegar

Ingredient 76
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Recipes using it

one
Recipe

Baumy Biltong

Seven batches. The first one cut to a spec rather than to the seam.

South African · Seventh revision · 11 SEP 2026