The lake in the local park in Jinzhong, North China's Shanxi Province holds over 15,000 tons of vinegar. Photo: Screenshot of Pear Video

The lake in the local park in Jinzhong, North China's Shanxi Province holds over 15,000 tons of vinegar and a submission to the Guinness World Records is being considered.

The lake is referred to as vinegar lake because it contains fermenters to brew vinegar.

The lake is 300 meters long and 24 meters wide, with seven vinegar pools winding around it. It is estimated that the lake contains 15,000 tons of vinegar in various staging of fermentation, China News Services reported Tuesday. 

Vinegar has to undergo five brewing steps, including steaming, leavening, fuming, spraying and aging before it is good enough to consume. The drying takes place in the lake where the vinegar fermenters are placed, this is the last step in the brewing - the aging stage. 

Guo Junlu, an inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage vinegar brewing skills, told the reporters that drying the vinegar in the lake could sterilize and evaporate water. 

Vinegar lake is open to the public. Many visitors rushed to see the huge fermenters. 

One of the visitors said the smell of the lake is extremely pungent. 

In order to prevent the vinegar from being contaminated, the vinegar lake is covered with a glass roof, where the temperature under the roof can reach over 50 C. 

According to Guo, he plans to submit the vinegar lake to the Guinness World Records. 

Global Times