how do i make sloe gin?

Answer 1

I have been making sloe gin for years and without overcomplicating the process, you need an empty (sealable) bottle.

Fill the bottle to a third full of sloe berries, add another third full of sugar and then top up with gin and seal.

Turn the bottle every week to mix up the gin and if you start now the gin will be ready for Christmas, but will keep indefinitely.
I have heard of people keeping it for the following year, but mine never makes it that far !!!

Answer 2

SLOE GIN

1 lb. (450 g) sloes
3 cups (710 ml) gin or vodka
1 1/2 cup (350 g) sugar


Wash and dry the fruit, remove all stems, and freeze the sloes for at least a couple of days (not necessary if they are picked after the first frost). Place the fruit in a suitable container, add gin or vodka, and shake twice a week for 4-8 weeks. Transfer most of the liquid to a bottle. Add the sugar to the remaining sloes. Shake twice a day until all sugar has dissolved; this may take up to two weeks. Mix this sweet syrup with the first unsweetened liquid. After three months strain the liqueur thru a muslin cloth. Add some more sugar if necessary. The liqueur should mellow for 6 months before used.

As an alternative you can mix the sloes, gin/vodka and sugar at the same time, but then use slightly less sugar. If preparing the sloe gin/liqueur this way you will also get a delicious flavor, however, the total volume of liqueur will be less because more liquid will remain within the fruit.

Sloes are the fruit of blackthorn and are actually a wild type of plums. The flavor of the fruit is bitter, so the small plums are not suitable for eating. However, the effect of frost makes them milder. The bitter flavor is lost when making liqueurs.

Sloe gin is traditionally made in Ireland and Britain. Sloe liqueur is also made in Scandinavia, Germany, France and Spain. This delicious liqueur has a flavor similar to plum liqueur and the color is dark red. It is best served in small amounts as an after-dinner drink with or without ice.


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Answer 3

To make Sloe Gin you need to prick each sloe berry a couple of times with a sharp needle or skewer. Put the berries in a large container with a bottle or two of Gin and a generous serving of sugar, say 2 cup fulls. leave in a dark place such as a cupboard but remember to give it a shake once a day for the first few weeks. In about 4 mths you will need to strain off the liquid from the berries and you will have Sloe Gin. The longer you can leave it the better it gets!

Answer 4

Place the bottle of whatever type of Gin you like best in your hand, and, very, very slowly, pour Gin over rocks, very slowly is the best way to make a Sloe Gin.

Answer 5

You can just buy sloe gin, you don't have to make it. It's usually near the schnapps stuff.

Answer 6

Wash sloes
Prick every one
Weigh
Put in a bucket
Add same weight of sugar and stir
Put in a dark place.
Stir every two days until you have a pink syrup with skin and pips floating in it.
Strain through muslin. (Do not squeeze too hard as the pips are poisonous)
Measure and add equal amount of gin.
Bottle and leave for a couple of months.

Answer 7

Things You'll Need
1 oz. almond syrup
3-1/2 oz. cherry juice
chilled collins glass
cracked ice
lemon slice
maraschino cherries
soda water
Steps
Stir cherry juice, almond syrup, soda water and cracked ice in a chilled collins glass.
Garnish with lemon wedge and maraschino cherry.

Answer 8

Ignore Tinks, it's very slowly!

Answer 9

slowly