Sloe Gin. Like other flavoured gin, sloe gin is relatively easy to make, although it is a long process. Meike Beck, Good Housekeeping's Cookery Director shared with us her go-to recipe for homemade sloe gin. Sloe gin was traditionally drunk in the depths of winter, as a warming drink, until the Americans got a hold of it and summer-ified it with citrus and soda water.

Learn why it's gaining popularity again and mix up refreshing fruit cooler known as the sloe gin fizz. Make this simple sloe gin from BBC Good Food in advance and leave to mature for a richly rounded, fruity flavour. It makes for a perfect homemade gift. You can have Sloe Gin using 2 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sloe Gin

1. You need 500 ml of Gin.
2. Prepare 250 g of Sloes.

Wikipedia Article About Sloe gin on Wikipedia. Sloe gin is a red colored liqueur flavored with sloe berries, the fruit of the blackthorn, a relative of the plum. Our mission: to find the best sloe gin available in the UK. Here are the results of our expert taste test, just in time for the Christmas period and our recipe for how to make sloe gin.

Sloe Gin step by step

1. Gather all your ingredients together. I'm reusing some old rhubarb gin that didn't quite work out, which is why it looks dodgy. You'll need 50% of your gin volume in sloes..
2. Rinse your sloes.
3. Prick the skins. This lets the gin permeate the fruit and take on the flavour. Some people freeze the sloes to do this, but that can make the fruit a bit mushy. I've rolled a grater over the tops of the sloes instead. Quick and easy..
4. Add the sloes to the bottle and pour over the gin.
5. Give it a shake. You should shake it once a week for the first few weeks..
6. Now leave it in the cupboard for at least 3 months. Someone recently told me that 1-year gin is nice, 3-year better, but 5-year is super smooth. 10-year becomes something else entirely. So it's down to you and your patience now! When you come to finish or decant your gin, don't throw out the sloes. Apparently you can use them in chocolate! Recipe to follow in a year 😂.

The Sloe Gin Fizz is certainly the most famous and craft-focused cocktail to utilize the colorful spirit Another easy way to experiment with the cocktail is by splitting the base between sloe gin and dry gin. Making sloe gin is slow but not laborious. There's no cooking required, just patience as the Strain the sloe gin through muslin into a sterilised bottle. Berry-rich tweaks on other classic cocktails—including a Sloe Gin and Lemon Tonic , a Sloe Gin Negroni. Sloe gin comes from across the pond in England and has everything to do with "sloe berries." They're small wild berries found across England.