It will turn a deeper and deeper berry red colour as the weeks go by. You can drink it after a couple of months but I like to lay it down for a year to allow the flavour to develop. This blog was… how do you say it? Many thanks! Pingback: Christmas-ready liqueurs from the hedgerows!
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Skip to content. Posted on October 1, by Janet Davies pigeoncottage. Sloe berries in blackthorn hedgerow. Thanks for this. Am considering switching to vodka instead of gin this year as i have a bottle nearly full.. Any thoughts on the difference in flavour? I'm trying to anticipate it Hi Eleanor Both taste so intensely fruity it's hard to tell the difference.
They're just delicious! Oh my sloe vodka is amazing Thanks for the suggestions, Emma. They sound worth a try. I'll be out and about collecting sloes sometime in the next few days to start this year's batch ready for Christmas. The sloes are bigger than I've ever seen them this year. Thanks, John. Not recommended, Cobweb. I doubt if the fruity taste will seep out into the vodka.
Any sloes you collect now will be hard until the first frost. If you're in the south of England this might not happen until December or January. Just follow step 1 under 'Method' and put a bag of sloes in the freezer for a few days. I made sloe vodka 2 yrs ago, I added almond essence to the brew, I don't drink alcohol myself but the smell was wonderful, it smelled like liquid bakewell tart, in the end I had to try a very small amount and it was lush, I have to say just that tiny tot made me tiddly, it went down very well as gifts and I have been pestered for more, so this year I am doing it again,.
Where is the best place to store whilst making it ie warm or cool conditions? Normal room temperature is fine. Mine is currently stored in the dining room. Hi John, I have two kiln jars of sloe gin currently on the go which I made last month.
Never tried doing this before so I wondered what is the optimum amount of time I should keep my sloes in the liquor? I have no intention of drinking the gin this year and would like to save it for next year so I can be very patient. Thanking you in advance Hi Bex Normally I keep mine going for a year and the end taste is wonderful.
But this year I'm going to try drinking in the same year to see if there's much difference. Additionally, the sloes in Cambridgeshire have been bigger and more abundant than I've ever seen, so I'm hoping they're also more fruity. You can start and drink within three months. We have found that most fruit recipes work equally well with gin or vodka. With a few exceptions. Raspberry gin is sublime and dessert gooseberry vodka is to kill for.
Their cousins, Raspberry vodka and dessert gooseberry gin are companiable and gluggable but not the super stars of the cocktail cabinet. We traditionally always make sloe gin. Lots of it. This year I has so many sloes that I decided to give sloe vodka a whirl. A litre of vodka made two ml bottles of grog. One for the cellar and one for testing and tasting.
I need to clear a space on the shelves in the barn to put our sloe gin and vodka out of reach. When I do this, it matures quietly, without being disturbed. It has also had an impact on using the toaster which sits behind the bottles and jars.
A careful, crane like movement is needed to operate the toaster. It was wonderful. Clean, crisp, punchy and absolutely delicious.
It was barely three weeks old. Then other visitors were introduced to this ambrosia. Reviews were good and glasses refilled. I am ashamed to announce that our tasting bottle is almost finished but delighted that I tried sloe vodka this year.
I hate to admit it but I think that sloe vodka is better than sloe gin. I had a g of sloes in the freezer so Jalopy and I rumbled over to Tesco on Saturday and bought an extra large bottle of medium priced vodka. Made 2 x 75ml bottles as per the above recipe and was left with ml of vodka. I added the remaining sloes g and topped up with just over a kilo of sugar.
This is the bottle in the photo with the white label. The label is actually the sugar -scary stuff! If we have a super party and a tasting, the sugar lovers will not be left out for years, as they have been in the past.
We like the sharp taste of our grog. This bottle will be for sweet toothed visitors only. I ran out of vodka to cover my damsons and put in some gin as well. Just wondering if this will cause any problems…slightly nervous. Hi Pat I believe you are right about it being illegal to distill or re-distill alcohol without a licence in the UK. However, sloe gin is made by soaking the sloes in the gin maybe with sugar to infuse the sloe flavour into the gin.
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