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Home Made Sloe Gin Recipe

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Sloe Gin Recipe

Sloe Gin Recipe

Sloe gin one year on! Our sloe gin recipe is continuing to prove popular with visitors to our Waterloo Farm blog, so I was keen to give an update one year on.

However, I must confess one year on it still tastes pretty disgusting to me. Now, this could be for anyone of the following reasons:

  1. I don’t actually like gin
  2. I don’t know what it is supposed to taste like having never drunk any before
  3. It is very bitter – perhaps more sugar?
  4. It tastes too much of sloes – perhaps we used to many?

I think I shall amend our sloe gin recipe to use more sugar and less sloes. Oh, I also think it might be a good idea to taste someone else’s sloe gin and see if it is meant to taste like this.

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Sloe Gin Recipe – progress

Saturday, October 10th, 2009
Sloe Gin Recipe - Progress

Sloe Gin Recipe - Progress

Since I have my first post on the sloe gin recipe we have had a significant influx of visitors to the site, clearly there is a high demand for sloe gin this year!

I guess now we have started to have some ice on the cars in the morning the traditionalists who pick their sloes after the first frost will be stripping local off-licences and supermarket shelves of gin by the basket load!

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Sloe Progress – Gin Recipe

Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Sloe Gin Recipe Progress

Sloe Gin Recipe Progress

As reported in this post on of me trying to follow my first sloe gin recipe, I wanted to give you a progress report! I have been shaking the sloe gin every day since it was bottled, and it has now turned a very impressive colour.

The sugar took quite a few days to dissolve, and to start with there was this incredible shimmering within the bottle where the alcohol was increasing in strength due to the sugar.

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Sloe Gin Recipe

Monday, September 21st, 2009
Sloes - (Blackthorn / Prunus spinosa)

Sloes - (Blackthorn / Prunus spinosa)

Woo hoo! I am really excited (I know sad!) to share my first attempt at making home made Sloe Gin! We went for a walk on Sunday afternoon around the very quiet country roads around the village, something we have not really found enough time to do since we moved in, so it was great to get out.

Not wanting to miss an opportunity I took a bag with me just in case I came across some sloes. I had almost given up hope until I spotted some hiding away in a hedgerow. So we all dived in and picked about a pound and a half. Now some people would say they should not be picked until after the first frost. BUT it has been so dry here, my fear if I leave it that late the sloes will have shrivelled up like raisins!

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