Can you get a bottle of Bragg's apple cider vinegar, or any other brand of unpasteurized vinegar? The blobby stuff in there is a mother, and you can pour it into your homemade concoction. OR you can pour about a tablespoon of vinegar into wine and leave it for about 2 months to form a mother. OR you can simply skip the mother altogether, and your vinegar making will proceed but may take much longer. A mother will eventually form!