How To Make SLOE GIN! DELICIOUS!!!
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- How to make Sloe Gin using Fresh or Dehydrated Sloes.
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250g sugar
1L Gin
1. Rehydrate the sloes by adding just enough boiling water to cover them slightly. Allow them to sit for 24 hours.
2. Add sugar and gin, then allow it to sit for a month or more. Shake jar once a day for a week, then once a week for a month.
3. Filter the liqueur and bottle.
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Looks like a pole of goat droppings… or should I say Sloe droppings😝
As an Englishman it's so refreshing to listen to an American who is not shouting his opinion while at the same time thumping his chest.
I found your channel today and have binge watched several episodes already and am convinced I'll watch tons more. You can put over a point with an accent of comedy, naturally, where so many people try to be actors, failing miserably, to achieve a similar outcome.
Glad to hear you love our Sloe Gin. Sorry can't help with frozen supplier for you but I do wish you all luck in your efforts. It'll be worth it as you're now aware.
Best compliment I've had so far this year. Thanks, brother:-)
recommendations: harvest after first night frost or put the sloes in the fridge a few days. Improves the taste as it reduces the harsh bitternes. Use dark rum at 54%, add a bit of cinnamon or vanilla (tonka is a good match as well). Dial a bit back on the sugar and go for brown rock candy. Leave on the shelf at least until the alcohol bleached the sloes.
Goes well with vanilla ice cream if you're not into sweet drinks...
This is great! Thanks!
I mashed in a blue corn and fig today. Figs are little sugar bombs. My little secrete.
Oh, nice!!!
Happy New Year from Randy, Still Works and Brewing
Happy new year, brother!
Excellent video full of great information. I think Ill add this to my list of stuff to do in teh new year.
Happy new year and Happy distilling
George
Definitely worth doing, brother! Happy New Year!
Great tip someone told me before. To save yourself having to shake the bottle daily, leave the bottle in the trunk/boot of your car and let it roll about a bit. So everyday when you go to work it gets shaken up
I might try that, but I'll put it in an ice chest cuz I have to hit my brakes all the time to avoid crazy people:-)
Sloe gin fizz, the Shirley Temple of cocktails. I haven't had one in over 30 years when I was overseas.
Yeah, it's been around a while. I think it was a prohibition era cocktail.
I often use sloes. Made an Absinth with sloes. You can make a good Brandy of them, but the seeds contain cynanide
Sloe infused absinthe sounds interesting!
I tried the same thing but with blueberries and my wife says it’s one of the best spirits I’ve ever made. Probably a lot sweeter than Sloe berries.
Sounds delicious!
Bearded, if you have any in your area any of the wild prunus species, blue (purple) plum, damson (small blue plums and plum shaped) bullace smaller than a damson but larger than a sloe (blackthorn) and more round also they inter cross really easily so you sometimes get a blackthorn with huge off round berries.
As kids we had the job of pricking the sloe with a wine bottle cork with pins stabbed and then cut pin heads off and we couldn't havest until there had been at least 2 hard air frosts. Where i live now that is rare in early winter so now freeze them but try to leave on trees as long as possible they change flavour and develop more sugars
There are several species of wild plums that supposedly grow around here, but I've never come across them. If I do, it'll be my next project to use them in every way I can:-)
Sloe glad you have done this I'm lucky I've got loads of sloes up my field and have been doing this for years everything from gin, malibu, peach snaps,vodca and moonshine all very good my recipe is slightly different
250g fruit
220g sugar
70cl alcohol (can be cheep shop brought)
And leave for 6 weeks
Happy New year everyone
Thanks so much for sharing the recipe! Happy new year!
Back in the day sloe gin was referred to as panty remover. Definitely going to give this a try. Thanks for the inspiration.
😂
I think I'll try this with my vodka. SloVodka! Sounds perfect.
It'll be tasty for sure:-)
I did a Oat Vodka (45%)ABV, mixed in a 1qt Jar: 2Tbsp Brown Sugar, 1/4 Cup Dried Cranberries, 4 dried Orange slices and 1/4 stick of Cinnamon. Shake and put in the fridge for two days. Filter and you have a cocktail in a Jar.
Nice!
Found your channel only yesterday and clicked on that video without any expectations. But after your description, I will definitely try this, already got an idea to distill gin before, but now I should save some to fall, since we have plenty of those bushes near country house. Thanks for your content and information.
You are very lucky. Hope it turns out delicious:-)
Hi Broer,
I just pop my fruit infusions into the fridge for a couple days and then normal coffee filter will pickup all the pectin.
Cheers
Awesome tip! Thanks broer!!
I will definitely be giving this a try; happy new year and look forward to all you share in 2024.
Happy new year!
@@BeardedBored Well, thanks buddy, some 4 weeks later and utilizing a Gin I made I now have some Sloe Gin and it is amazing, like you said now I can't wait to locate and use some fresh berries for the process. I do believe I'll go a little lighter on the juniper berries and a little more citrus forward next batch. Look forward to your next creation.
I'm working on my "BourGin" I took some of my gin and have had it maturing on a mixture of heavy charred white oak and Hungarian oak; 6 months in and it is appearing it might be amazing, would like to see what you could do with the idea.
We’ll have Davidson Plums fruiting in a month or so. I might try them. Very tart and tasty.
I looked them up, sounds like they'll work very well. Good luck!
Happy New Year to everyone!
Happy new year!
Home made sloe gin - primo shit!... especially when made with sloes from your own hedgerows. I'm intrigued by the flavour profile you got from the dried sloes. Fresh sloes produce a bright, super dry almond / fruity note, and the deeeep purple colour is just awesome! The biggest problem I face is picking the ripe sloes before the birds get them all. Lousy, thieving birds... grrrr! Many thanks for your always awesome videos, and a Happy New Year from the Emerald Isle ☘
Birds got my blackberries this year. I feel your pain:-)
If I had friends, which I don't, they'd be just like you
I mKe sloe gin with a Christmas spice gin. In the UK we usually make sloe gin for next year and keep it on the berries for a full year.
Mine is so deep a red colour you can't see through it and we use a lot more sloes than on this episode. I fill 2L kilner jar to the top with sloes then 80% fill it with gin. The remaining space gets filled with as much sugar as I can shake into it. Once it desolves (can take a fortnight) I top it off with gin and leave it a year.
Adjust sweetness with brown sugar when bottling next year.
That sounds amazing!
My cousins ex-husband picks sloes from just up the road.He then puts sugar and the sloes in a store bought Gin leaves said mixture one year best booze I ever had!
Happy New Year! 😎 After you made Sloe Gin, Imagine how Sloe Brandy will taste, destilled from Sloe Wine! 😉 Sloes will grow nearly everywhere. get some Cores and bring em out. Harvest them after the first frost, or put em in the fridge after harvest. Otherwise they taste bitter!
I'm hoping to get a sloe plant and see if it'll survive here.
Happy New Year! Thanks for all the content and inspiration in 2023
Thanks and happy new year!
I could never find anyone that could name that berry that grew in a tree right onto my back deck!, that is what they were in UPstate Ny
It would be fun to see how freeze dried vs dehydrated fruit differ! Keep up the great work
I had the same thought. Might get a fresher fruit flavor with freeze dried.
I first heard of sloe gin then Hugh Fernley Whittingstall made it in his river cottage series 20 odd years ago. I've been meaning to make blueberry vodka by the same method but haven't got around to it yet.
Do it! Blueberry gin sounds awesome:-)
Happy New Year from Guam!
Thanks for what you do!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks and Happy New Year!
Sloe Gin Fizz used to be my go to drink when I was younger before the "Heartburn" years began. Ugh! So now I Only grab one once a Blue Moon. But becaude I'm a Gardner make lots of home remedies & some home liquors till now isually just throwing some fruit in a jar with some vlear liquor honestly lol. I think ill give this a shot now would be a great time to start a bunch of these items vanillas & or other infusions that we all rhink of last minute at Christmas if we start now then everything is ready for the seaon. Glad I watched this today. So in advance Happy Holiday's lol & Much L❤VE from Kentucky!
That is the problem with Sloe gin, it tastes so good you can really get messed up quickly if you don't pace yourself. Happy New Year!
Too true! Happy New Year:-)
Happy New Year's from a Michigan maker...
Happy new year!
That looks dangerously good. Happy New Year Bud!
Happy New Year brother!
That was a good video, good seeing you. Happy New Year.
Happy new year!
Happy New Year Brother Bearded! Have a great year.
Happy new year!
Sloe nice to sea your having a nice holiday mush ❤
Happy new year!
I have good luck making sloe gin with dried sloe berries by macerating the berries in gin at the strength it comes off the still (75% ABV or so.) After around 6 weeks I strain off the sloe berries, proof down the gin and mix in rich syrup to sweeten it. This method works great with fresh mulberries too.
Very cool, thanks for the tip!
HNY mate from Sydney. Thank you for this, just bought a few Sloes to make gin and then your video popped up. Will let you know how it goes.
Good luck on it!
Happy New Year, I have some sloe`s in my freezer ready to do a gin and vodka both are awesome when ready, defiantly better after 3 months or more.
Happy new year! I actually saved my fruit after straining it. They went right back into the gin after I finished the video. I'll strain them out in a few months. I wanted the full experience:-)
Yeah, man.
HNY, from all we hobbits in our shires: Hertfordshire; Leicestershire; Worcestershire; Devonshire; Lincolnshire; Ayrshire; Lanarkshire - those last two are in Scotland, but what the hey? - and all the other shires.
;)
Back at the end of the sixties, a mate of mine and I were down in Kent, picking hops and he came across a sloe bush - and filled his pockets with sloes, for sloe gin.
I didn't get a chance to taste it, by the time he'd gotten it together.
You might try planting the stones from your dehydrated ones, but I imagine you'll have quite a long wait.
All things come to him who waits, eh?
There's an old saying that "he who plants sloes, plants them for his sons, he who plants damsons, plants them for his grandsons". I'm still going to try it;-)
Happy new year from France Bearded! Thanks for all the great information from the last 12 months, help and encouragement. Looking forward to the next 12months. Happy 2024 to you and your family. 😊
Thanks so much, mon frère. Happy new year!
Well happy new year to you sir..... love seeing everyone getting into the spirit.... even though I'm seeing it.3 weeks too late.
and a Merry New Year to you too, B&B!
Did you see the cool shout out you got from Jesse while interviewing that reality TV moonshiner? That guy used your malted corn video to make his winning recipe. Cool stuff. Well, I don't know about using peanutbutter in a drink, and the winning moonshiner didn't know about diastatic power... but cool anyway.
I've been working on some cool-ish rum stuff. Anxious to see what you've got.
I drank sloe gin once, it was back in college and everybody thought I was barfing blood. I'll skip making this infusion. Nothing personal.
Do what now?!?! No I haven't caught up on my watch list yet. I'll give it a watch. That's cool. Thanks brother, and thanks for the visual of barfing blood, hahahahaha!
Happy New Year, Bearded!
Happy new year!
Really Appreciate Your Video , Thanks ! 🐯🤠
Thanks Pat!
I make it every year for my own consumption and to give out as Xmas presents. It's definitely better the longer you leave it - I bottled a 2yr old jar and it was awesome. My ratios are different to yours (1lb/1lb/1pint) but it's whatever floats your boat. I've got Sloes in my freezer if you can't get any elsewhere, I'll have a crack at sending them across the Atlantic. As you mentioned, Damsens are also superb for Gin.
I'm going to see if I can find some wild plums that supposedly grow around the area. Shipping over here would be a nightmare, but I appreciate the thought. Happy New Year!
@@BeardedBored the Sloe is the fruit of the Blackthorn Tree, so although a cousin of a plum etc doesn't grow on what you might suspect a traditional fruit tree might look like. That might help in you finding something similar - sure there's plenty of thorny trees your end
I’ve never been sicker than the day I drank too much sloe gin in my well-misspent youth. 😂
Yeah, it tastes like it could be a teenagers first mistake with alcohol:-)
Damsons are awesome - smaller than plums but with much more flavour. I've made plum brandy and damson brandy and the damson has soooo much more flavour than the plum. Shame you don't get them in the US...
Supposedly they grow wild here, but I haven't come across them yet.
Happy new year. There was once “hypothetically” I was really high watching your videos and seeing what fun but weird ideas you have. I just thought. “Man, his beard is my spirit animal”. And that has stuck ever since. I have to make Gin now and then this Sloe gin. I have to get a rum/whiskey bastard, blueberry whisky/sake, and a Penella rum done first. But soon!
That must be why my beard seems to have a mind of its own:-)
Happy new year, Bearded! Now I’m ordering Sloes!
If you can't find them on amazon, I put a new ebay link in video description. I think they sold out on amazon for now. Happy new year!
Thanks for the video and inspiration. I'll be searching for Sloe seeds or starts tonight.
There's an old saying that "he who plants sloes, plants them for his sons, he who plants damsons, plants them for his grandsons". Still worth it. Good luck!
@@BeardedBored I follow "The best time to plant a sloe was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
Happy New Year BnB. I think it would be a blast to be your neighbor and friend. The things we could concoct. That would be a good time for sure.
Haha, I know, right!
Whoa sloe down man!! Lol super awesome vid as always!! Merry Christmas and happy New Year and thanks for checking out Fuzzy builds ( product condenser a long while back ). Drink looks tasty as all get out! Keep up the great work!!
Thanks brother! Happy new year! BTW I still remember that video:-)
Happy new year man! Love your work, you've inspired me to start my own channel this year 😉
Congrats!
Great to see you coming up with great stuff! Happy new year mate! Hope you post more stuff 👊👍
Lots of videos on the way, Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, brother!
Back at ya!
Merry X-Mas and happy New Year to You and yours 😊 and to all reading here 🥂🥳 My favorite are 1 liter Odins Easy Gin 45% abv 500 gram Sloe berry and 200 gram sugar sitting for 2-3 month. Way more ruby red than yours🏮 The berry's have been frozen for at least 48 hours and every single one has been poked with a fairy's silver needle before going in the jar with Gin. And yep, up here in the north we have them fresh of the bush😃 Can't wait to see more videos from you in the new year 👍 See ya
I'm so jealous! Happy new year:-)
Mmmm... sloe rum... now, you need to give that a go! I much rather like the rum variant over the gin one... and yes, I've made both! I have to admit though... last year was a sloe harvest disaster, I wonder if I managed to get a small handful! I'm already out looking at my usual harvest spots... this year may be better!
Happy new year buddy, I did a version on my channel. Nice to see the differences 🤙
Very nice!
@@BeardedBored cheers buddy 🧡
The link seems to take me to elderberries? This is an excellent idea, as we love sloe gin. I'll have to try it if I can find some sloe berries.
I think that seller on Amazon sold out. I can't find another seller that has 200g packs, so I put a link for a high rated eBay seller in the recipe as an alternative.
Damsons are small plumbs , shire lol im welsh we dont have shire,s :-0 sloe,s on the other hand grow in almost every hedge down to my last 30 pints of 80proof :-) merry new year !! hic
You're very lucky!
I've heard that tart cherry and cranberries combined make something similar. Definitely not the same, but similar.
Sounds like you need to test it...for science;-)
Looks like a challenge. We’re in. Happy New Year. Link in the description brought up elderberries. Are they the same??
Not the same. Amazon seller has run out and switched my link, but I added a link for a high rated eBay seller. Make sure you get 200g of sloes per liter of gin. But the elderberry might make an awesome drink, too.
Happy new year and thanks for the info 🎉
Happy new year!
That would sound better than "Cold Gin" as the title of that ol' KISS song, eh?
*Edit l wonder if you can use the North American native 'beach plum' as a sloe sustitute?
I believe you can. Read that somewhere.
I have experienced difficulty in dissolving sugar in alcohol. I try to dissolve it in water if possible then add the alcohol. Have you experienced this too?
It took about a day to fully dissolve.
I wonder how well Freeze dried fruit would do with something like that. Also curious how freeze dried fruit would do with making a mash.
I'd love to find some to test it. Might have more of the fresh flavor.
Shire is just an old word for county :)
I just learned something new. Thanks!
Do you think American Plum would be a close substitute?
It's certainly worth a try. If I can find any of the half dozen species of wild plums that supposedly grow around here, I'm definitely going to try it.
Can you do a Japanese inspired koji whiskey?
I've done a Chinese baijiu rice whiskey with a version of koji mold. Came out good. Might try one with koji and whiskey grain bill to see what happens:-)
I'll stay tuned! Love the content.
You have a P.O. box? I have some good bitters (for flavor) id like to send you.
Have you got a jaggery video coming?
Very soon, but I'm using panela sugar. Pretty close.
Sloe gin and orange many well be one of the most dangerous drinks in existence, you probably shouldn't try it :p
Thanks for the warning:-)
Hello quick question can I use a huge aluminum pot for making mash I’ve had it for years could be useful
Can I get some help?
I have a gin basket, a true basket not a thumper style, and I don’t seem to be getting any discernible flavor (or nose) from it what-so-ever. Any idea what I can be doing wrong?
Happy new year brother. Don’t drink that whole bottle. lol.
Happy new year back at you, brother! I hope you have a better 2024!
What would the strength of your product be? The abv of a commercial product in our store is 26%
Probably a bit over 30%. I have to guess because I didn't measure the water. My guess is that I added about 250ml of water. The gin was 45%. Proofing calculator says that's roughly 35%.
Btw.....
Your hat wasnt on backwards. You were just facing the wrong way. 😂
That makes more sense:-)
Honestly check out mine, made with vodka and gin botanicals. Would post a link but I feel that ride 😉
Good video, brother!
@@BeardedBored thank you fella, means a lot.
NOPE!!!
can’t even get gin to my nose much less lips! merry new years and happy christmas
Try vodka. It'll still be delicious!
Hey guys check your sub