Sloe Gin
Sloe GinI spotted a very large patch of sloes while walking the dog and have been checking them regularly and today decided they were just ripe enough so picked them quick before someone else nabbed them.
Can't wait until Christmas Lucy x
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut - Ernest Hemingway Re: Sloe GinMmm! Love sloe gin!
Helen xx
3 children, 3 grandchildren, 3 chooks, 3 fish, a shrimp that thinks its a prawn and a dappy dog. http://www.acountrygrandma.blogspot.com Re: Sloe GinSloes are such a strange fruit. They taste awful and have an almost dry taste.
Sloe is great though. When we have made it, we've always used cheap gin. Do you think it matters given the sloes and the sugar in it??? Michael
Re: Sloe GinNot after the first bottle
Helen xx
3 children, 3 grandchildren, 3 chooks, 3 fish, a shrimp that thinks its a prawn and a dappy dog. http://www.acountrygrandma.blogspot.com
Re: Sloe GinWe've made it with three different gins - Gordon's, Bombay Sapphire and a cheap unbranded one. Looking forward to taste testing them all Lucy x
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut - Ernest Hemingway
Re: Sloe GinShould be good Lucy. We picked a couple of lbs yesterday and they are at the moment in the freezer. I heard that sloes are best after a frost and freezing is the next best thing. Also supposed to save pricking them.
It will be interesting to hear if the quality of the gin makes any difference. A lovely treat for Christmas I am now a widow and live with my memories.
Re: Sloe GinI must admit I only have used cheap gin and it's tasted lovely so I'm not sure it matters. Hopefully Mad Chick's taste test will prove conclusive!
Karen
Alpha chick to: Smudge, Matisse and Bluebell Chief servant to Marley the cat Remembering Weeps, Rexie, Sage, Cassie, Toffee, Captain Gabby, Commander Nugget, Ronnie, Juno, Special Poetry and Reading Casper, Tigger, Tophenanall Rembrandt, Chestnut, Tiddly, Willow, Mango, Coco, Dorian Grey and Pokey. Also my lost furries Charlie and Jasper Re: Sloe GinTime to resurrect this post from 5 years ago now! I was cutting the hedge at our old house last week and noticed the sloe berries are just perfect for picking. At the weekend we bought a cheap bottle of gin from Lidl and will bottle our sloe gin in the next day or two. Incidentally, it was me that planted a few blackthorn on untended land land at the back of our land over thirty years ago and now they are all over the place. Michael
Re: Sloe GinYears ago I noticed some 'damsons' in the hedge and tried to make a pie of them.
Took the skin off your teeth! Then someone said they were sloes Dance caller. http://mo-dance-caller.blogspot.co.uk/p/what-i-do.html
Sunny Clucker enjoyed Folk music and song in mid-Cheshire Re: Sloe GinI wouldn't mind trying that, if you could make sloe vodka. I hate the smell of gin.
Someone left me a jar of home made damson jam on the doorstep, a friend possibly, I don't know. However, I gave it away. I don't eat jam because of the high sugar content. If someone asks me if I liked the jam, I will have to lie. ilona Re: Sloe GinHa ha - very true. Sloes belong to the same genus as plums, damsons and greengages. They are what is termed astringent, a chemical that shrinks or constricts body tissues - in your mouth if you eat them :-) Michael
Re: Sloe GinI don't like the smell of gin either - smells like perfume - but a mature sloe gin seems to have a fruitier aroma. I see no reason why you can't substitute with vodka instead because a lot of different fruits go well in vodka. a sloe gin / vodka is more like a syrup / liqueur than just fruit + spirit (sloe in particular is low in sugar so would taste very dry without the sugar to sweeten it) Re: Sloe GinDH was given a kit last christmas to make our own gin from vodka & flavour it with various botanicals. Every few months we make some from the cheapest vodka we can find, its been very good so far. I also recommend Raspberry vodka, and blackberry whisky.
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
--Immanuel Kant Re: Sloe GinInteresting never heard of a gin making kit before. Does make sense though, vodka is simply alcohol distilled from almost anything and as such doesn't taste of anything but alcohol. Gin on the other hand is traditionally flavoured with Juniper berries but the trend nowadays is to add other 'botanicals'. Michael
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