What is sloe gin ?

[Jack Gooding]

I personally prefer our homemade sloe vodka, but that's because gin tastes like bloody perfume.

 

We never freeze the sloes, or do anything to them after picking them and before putting them into the bottle.

 

Take 1 mug of sloes, 1 mug of sugar, and put them into a vodka/gin bottle. Top it up with your preferred tipple, then after a while (which could be a month, could be a year - up to you how much sloe taste you want), decant it out through some muzzlin. The extra sugar makes it quite syrupy, but much better than the fizzy stuff you'll buy in the shops, like Gordon's.

 

Mix it with some champagne for a "Slowgasm", guaranteed to make you feel a little light-headed.

[josharb87]

You cant have a competition because i would enter my mothers sloe gin which would win hands down.......(he says throwing down the gauntlet...)

 

 

 

Each berry should be pricked with a hawthorn thorn really, and ideally the gin should be left for years adding gin/ sugar as necessary, the end result ho[pefully being a sweet almost syrupy liquid that is mighty strong!

 

my dads got some in his cellar from 30years ago

[Mesterh]

The thing about sticking them in the freezer is because they are supposed to be better after the first frost. This is only because they are at there ripest then. It doesnt burst the skins either (just had a look at mine in the freezer and there still intact, btw there only there to stop them going off before I bottle them)

 

You are supposed to prick them so the juice can come out better, although I wouldnt bother with a thorn just use a fork.

 

The sugar not only adds sweetness but also helps extract the juice out of the berry.

 

BTW I only got this info from stuff I read on the net, have only made sloe gin a couple of times, so you may not want to believe a work I'm saying

[DN22 Gardening]

did 6lts three weekends ago.

 

used a recipe from an old lady used to live near us.

 

half ltr of the cheapest nastiest gin

 

half ltr of red wine the same nastiest cheapest

 

6oz sugar

 

6oz sloe berries (blackthorn fruit for all you townies)

 

leave for as long as possible

 

cant into bottles. leave as long as you can sit on your hands

 

drink

 

guarenteed p:ss@d

 

guarenteed no hangover

 

if you're really feeling in the christmas spirit you can dip the used sloes into melted dark chocolate.

 

:lol::lol:

[Hogs Breath]

the freezing should split the sloes so no need to prick,then add equal amounts of sugar and sloes to the gin.how much is up to you!!