Is spirit vinegar halal?
I don’t know actually. but the chips vinegar is known as Malt Vinegar. I researched the question you asked seeing as you aren’t getting many answers. Question: Is spirit vinegar lawful to consume? A:Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah, In the Hanafi school, it is permitted to consume wine vinegar—whether it transformed by itself or through intervention. [Shaykh al-Islam al-Marghinani, al-Hidaya] Imam Akmal al-Din al-Babarti (Allah have mercy on him) explains in al-`Inaya, his commentary on al-Hidaya, that the texts that would seem to indicate the prohibition of wine vinegar are understood to be abrogated by later texts establishing permission. The wisdom behind the temporary prohibition was to reinforce the dislike of wine in the hearts of those morally responsible, as the hadith commentators explain. And Allah alone gives success. Wassalam. Faraz Rabbani.
