Slows are ripening. What is your Recipe for Slow Gin?

[Tony.Price]

Slows are plentiful this year. I add 1lb fruit to 1lb suger to 1l Cheep Gin. To start with any way. I then start experimenting.

 

What recipe do you use?

[eagleye]

sloe vodka

 

450g sloes

450g sugar

500ml good vodka

wack it all a big container

shake daily for 2 weeks

and wait for christmas

 

and by the way chunks allergic to it ha ha

[kevwrenn]

i use a 1:1:1 ratio with pounds for fruit n sugar and bottle for the spirits. however i am not a fan of gin so i tent to use cheap whisky (any blended really), but try the same mix with gooseberries and vodka..... now that is nice, or damsons and brandy......

[ben lightfoot]

Does anyone wait till the first frost before picking or is that those old wives talking stories again?

[Tony.Price]

Does anyone wait till the first frost before picking or is that those old wives talking stories again?

 

I Think the seasons are to variable now. I pick em if they feel soft.

[Sam Thompson]

Does anyone wait till the first frost before picking or is that those old wives talking stories again?

 

My Grandmother does, I don't

 

 

1lb Sugar

1L Gin

1.5lb Sloes

 

 

[s.varty]

Freeze your sloes ,then let them thaw before adding them to your gin. 1 part sugar, 1 part sloes , 2 parts gin.

[miker]

chuck a cinnamon stick into the mix aswell

[Andrew Reed]

One bottle gin, drink a 1/3 of it. Meanwhile put sloes on a tray in the freezer overnight (to help break down the slow to release the juice). Add 20% of the bottle with of sloes, add 10% of the bottle with sugar. Shake each day for a several weeks. Add more sugar to suit your taste if required. Decant after a month, if any left.

[Graham]

The part I can't understand is: how does it last to christmas? Surely you have to keep testing it:001_smile: