The invention provides a method for fermenting a vinegar by adding a
starter propagation Chinese herbal
medicine. The method comprises the following steps: (1) preparing a rhizoma polygonati extracting solution and red-knees
herb extracting solution; (2) washing and soaking rice, performing
filtration, cooking rice to be free from white cores, spreading for cooling, adding a koji mould
spore suspension and the rhizoma polygonati extracting solution, performing stacking cultivation, and then performing ventilating cultivation to obtain rhizoma polygonati koji; (3) activating a brewer's
yeast; (4) washing and soaking sticky rice, performing
filtration, cooking sticky rice to be free from white cores, adding the rhizoma polygonati koji and an activated brewer's
yeast suspension, performing
fermentation till the alcoholic degree is stable, performing
filtration, and performing
wine boiling to obtain a fermented
wine; and (5) adding the red-knees
herb extracting solution into the fermentedwine, adding water to dilute the fermented
wine, performing
pasteurization, performing cooling, then adding an activated acetic
bacteria suspension, charging into a
fermentation tank, performing
fermentation under stirring and ventilating conditions till the acidity no longer rises, performing filtration, and performing blending and disinfection to obtain the
starter propagation Chinese herbal
medicine. By adoption of the method, the vinegar fermentation production efficiency and the
flavor of the vinegar are improved, and the health value of the vinegar is also improved.