Show us your...... homemade Sloe Gin
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Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Some of this year's haul.
We have also been growing hops
For our Community Beer. We have just harvested 75kg between all the households and the local brewery is making it as I type
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
From a couple of years ago....
Top lesson learned - it's not worth using only strongly flavoured sugar because it tends to mask the flavour of the fruit.
I'm looking out at another good year of rowan berries, although sadly I think most of the easily reachable ones have been eaten already. Rowanberry gin is delicious as a bittering agent - I've made a very nice cocktail with it, rum and fancy orangeade. The rose bush isn't doing as well this year as it did in 2015, but we've got quite a lot of apples again.
We've also got very good crops of holly berries and pyrocantha berries. But I don't think it's a very good idea to use either for drinks....
Top lesson learned - it's not worth using only strongly flavoured sugar because it tends to mask the flavour of the fruit.
I'm looking out at another good year of rowan berries, although sadly I think most of the easily reachable ones have been eaten already. Rowanberry gin is delicious as a bittering agent - I've made a very nice cocktail with it, rum and fancy orangeade. The rose bush isn't doing as well this year as it did in 2015, but we've got quite a lot of apples again.
We've also got very good crops of holly berries and pyrocantha berries. But I don't think it's a very good idea to use either for drinks....
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Living with a food scientist has it's advantages. I'm discussing proper Gin production with local botanicals.
If all goes well I may be back for crowd funding.
If all goes well I may be back for crowd funding.
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
View: https://youtu.be/F1_6yCHnSI4
Never tried sloe gin myself but it must be good gear/anaesthetic if, as Joe sings it washes away the pain inside!
OP
OP
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
I can't wait for Christmas so I can have a taste. Why does it take so long?
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
You can have fruit gins all year round if you continue to make them all year round.
OP
OP
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
I've been given a bottle of rather smashing-looking sloe gin (from an expensive firm of lawyers so I assume it's pretty decent stuff)
What's the skinny with drinking it? Is it mainly for sippin' or is it mixed or is it good for cocktails or summat?
What's the skinny with drinking it? Is it mainly for sippin' or is it mixed or is it good for cocktails or summat?
OP
OP
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Straight from the bottle in my house, then wince and stamp your foot several times.......
