MadHouse Vinegar is committed to two things—creating world-class artisanal vinegar and making it using products that would have been poured down the drain.

Go back in time 150 years ago and you would find small batch vinegar production happening in every small town. Vinegar was local and the flavors were as varied and specific to the place in which they were created as we expect wine to be. But mass production ended all of that. Today those varietal vinegars are rare—lost in a sea of large-scale homogeneous vinegars made mostly from corn and wood pulp and flavored after fermentation to taste like red wine or white wine or apple cider.

Here at MhV, we’re returning to the old ways, while replacing an important component that’s been missing in the Ohio River Valley culinary ecosystem.

Southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky are filled with breweries, cider houses, vineyards, distilleries that all pump out delicious drinks that speak to the taste of this region. But they create waste, too--wort, skunked beer, wine or cider that misses the mark, spent grains, aging barrels that can’t be reused—waste that can end up in our water reclamation system and in our dumps.

So at MhV, we take it off their hands and make the tastiest vinegar you’ve ever tried. Vinegar that only needs a little salt and pepper to make the world’s best salad dressing. Vinegar bartenders are using to craft killer shrubs. Vinegar that brightens any food and makes any dish exponentially more complex. 

Vinegar that could only be made right here and right now—while simultaneously creating a more flavorful and sustainable community.

Phone

(513) 967-1106

Location

2872 Lawrenceburg Rd.
North Bend, Ohio 45052
United States

Hours

M-F: By Appointment Only
Sa:    9 am - 5 pm
Su:    10 am - 4 pm

Flagship Vinegars

Red Wine Vinegar

Hints of cherry and black currant with a long smooth finish  

Perfect for: Shrubs, Cocktails, Vinaigrettes, BBQ Sauces, Meat Glazes, Meat Marinades

Base Provenance: Wine culled by Cutting Edge Selections

Dark Malt Vinegar

A nose of toffee leads to flavors of roasted malts and toasted barley with a hint of sorghum 

Perfect for: Fish & Chips, Vinaigrettes, BBQ Sauces, Meat Glazes, Meat Marinades

Base Provenance: Bircus Brewery, Listermann Brewing Company, MadTree Brewing, Rhinegeist, Streetside Brewery

White Wine VINEGAR

Crisp, fruity, and clean on the palate with the balance of a fine chardonnay 

Perfect for: Vinaigrettes, Shrubs, Cocktails, Marinades, Pickling, Salads

Base Provenance: Wine culled by Cutting Edge Selections

Light Malt Vinegar

Rich and nutty with a hint of sweetness

Perfect for: Fish & Chips, Vinaigrettes, BBQ Sauces, Meat Glazes, Meat Marinades, Shrubs

Base Provenance: Bircus Brewery, MadTree Brewing, Rhinegeist

Apple Cider Vinegar

Tart and crisp with hints of granny smith and a smooth finish

Perfect for: Drinking Vinegar, Vinaigrettes, Shrubs, Cocktails, Pickling, Marinades, Salads

Base Provenance: Hayfields Orchard, Rhinegeist

ROSÉ VINEGAR

Soft on the palate, perfect balance of fruitiness and acidity.

Perfect for: Vinaigrettes, Shrubs, Marinades, Cocktails, Pickling, Salads

Base Provenance: Wine culled by Cutting Edge Selections

Small Batch Vinegars

We've never met a sugar/flavor profile we didn't immediately want to try to ferment and then convert into vinegar. As a result, we always have small batch vinegar experiments aging in-house alongside the flagship vinegars we have on hand consistently. These vinegars are some of our most popular, but are often seasonal--here one day and gone the next, as ephemeral as sweet corn season in the Ohio River Valley.

If you see a vinegar you're interested in, snap it up. It may be months before there's more in stock.

Peppermint vinegar

Smooth on the palate, balanced acid and a nice peppermint finish

Perfect for: Shrubs, Cocktails, Drinking Vinegar, Vinaigrettes, Sweet & sour sauces

Base Provenance: Doscher’s Candies, Co (candy canes)

Bogbeast Vinegar

Notes of butterscotch, toffee, pepper and peat.

Perfect for: Fish’n’chips, Reduction Glaze, Vinaigrette

Base Provenance: Rhinegeist Wheatwine Aged in Scotch Barrels

SWEET CORN VINEGAR

Well-balanced and smooth with a mild corn finish.

Perfect for: Vinaigrettes, Marinades, Finishing Vinegar, Shrubs, Cocktails

Base Provenance: Weber’s Farm sweet corn

Spicebush Vinegar

Notes of pink peppercorn, mace, and allspice.

Perfect for: Vinaigrettes,  Reductions, Cocktails, and Marinades

Base Provenance: Carriage House Farm Spicebush Berries

Coffee Vinegar

Notes of dark fruits, cocoa, and sweet smoke.

Perfect for: Shrubs, Cocktails, Drinking Vinegar, Vinaigrettes, BBQ Sauces, Meat marinades, Meat Glazes

Base Provenance: Deeper Roots Coffee (cold-pressed)

Ramp Vinegar

Notes of wild garlic and onion in a smooth vinegar with a ramp tang  

Perfect for: Finishing Vinegar, Marinades, Soups, Sautés, and Bloody Mary’s

Base Provenance: Foraged by MhV locally

acid alchemists

The faces of The MadHouse Vinegar Co. 

Justin Dean, Co-Owner

Born in Asheville, NC and raised in the backroads of Kentucky’s farmland, it was only natural that he follow the winding contours of the terrain from Field to Fork. Beginning at his parents’ farm in Mason County where he attended high school, his path led to Providence, RI where he graduated from Johnson & Wales with a degree in Food & Beverage Management. From there, he honed his skills at the Maisonette, a restaurant with the longest running streak of five-star awards from the Mobil Travel Guide.

With an accumulated 30 years of experience in the food and beverage industry, he helped open more than a dozen concept restaurants and collaborated on countless side projects, including working with Woodlands Pork and Black Oak Holler Farm. It was in these wooded mountains of West Virginia where he got a taste for carving up perfect, porcine samples of woodlands mast finished hogs nearly 15 years ago.

These days, when not ensconced in with his kids’ sports activities, he spends his time working with schools to improve the quality and nutrition of meals being served, keeping the vinegar bubbling, giving new life to food waste, and continuing to spread the good food gospel to those that like to eat.

richard stewart, co-owner

richard@carriagehousefarmllc.com

An Ohio native and former illustrator and designer, he has managed historical Carriage House Farm for the past sixteen years.  During this time he has helped support the local food and brewery scene in the Cincinnati region by shifting from commodity crops to native plant and fruit/produce production.  With a focus on intense, but sustainable production, he has turned what was once an unknown, family-owned Ohio Century Farm, into a community leader, helping local not-for-profits and reestablishing old breeds of native plants such as pawpaws, spicebush, and elderberry.

Carriage House Farm currently supplies a wide range of regional chefs and upscale retailers and offers an on-farm dinners series that brings the local food concept full-circle, with the chefs the farm supplies coming out to the countryside and doing dinners for small groups of guests.

He partnered with Justin Dean in 2013 to begin working on vinegar production.  Carriage House Farm will act as host for the MadHouse Vinegar Co. once it enters full-production and become the single source for a majority of the herbs and fruit used in the process.