Vinegar salts

[Bolverk]

Howdy all,

Diving back into the Cousins process for high ester rums and I started thinking....

Has anyone tried using regular distilled white vinegar, hitting it with CaO to get it to precipitate out the acid salts, dehydrating that and adding it back to a retort/thumper with a high alcohol solution like heads or high tails with sulfuric acid like in the Cousins process?
If so what were your results?

I suppose it would just be easier at this point to use straight acetic acid, but I'm curious...

Thanks in advance
B