i find it so awesome that so many regions have their own version of this same drink. I drank this in Japan when I was young (ACV, honey, lemonade) and mixed up a recipe of it recently and had one of those blast-from-the-past moments.
Our
local version would use sugarcane juice, which is full of minerals (it`s hard to store, so the local whole molasses may be a good substitute. It`s only boiled, no other refining). I made some strawberry vinegar last year and this seems like the perfect way to use it.
the honey thing is interesting- I brew beer and generally use dextrose or table sugar as the primer (to get the beer to carbonate in secondary fermentation). Honey is hard for me to get so I generally don`t use it and prefer molasses, but a few years ago I had a special beer I was making and I used an unusual local honey as the primer (bracatinga honey, the
bees harvest secretions from honeydew kind of insects, it is rare and very special, with an interesting flavor
https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/ark-of-taste-slow-food/bracatinga-honeydew-honey/ ). The beer carbonated just fine but to a lesser extent, but at a low concentration (don`t remember the numbers but it would have been no more than 3% by volume, i assume). I rememeber thinking afterward that honey might not have been the smartest idea for a fermentation!