Simple Sloe Gin Recipe - in 3 minutes flat!
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- In this video, we provide the instructions for how to make Sloe Gin - a super easy Winter treat!
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Here is the outskirts of Seattle in the US we have sloes. I was shocked when I moved to my new place to see them growing wild.. I’m going to make some Sloe gin based on your recipe tomorrow. 😊
Definitely worth trying, it's an interesting taste
Freezer tip is genius ❤
@@skafazzation666 Thank you 😁
Ahhhh, the recipe I had seen for sloe gin she stood there and pierced each one with a knitting needle. Freezing sounds much better!
I don’t drink much. I suspect that will change once I have my smallholding and need to use lots of fruit! You’re a bad influence 😂😂
You have friends in low places 😁
@@EnglishCountryLife the best place for them 😂😂😂
I have TONES of Sloe here at home and thank goodness I found something to do with it.
@@EdgarMunizBerlinck Definitely worth it 👍
Hello from Dublin Ireland very nice video sharing
Thanks John!
Cant wait to try this !!! I made a batch last year from a recipe which called for 500g sloes to 500g sugar....it was extremely syrupy...,..
I do find many recipes too sweet for sure
Absolutely amazing like the rest of your videos Hugh
Thank you so much !
cool video, thank you
@@markkashchenko628 Glad you liked it 🥃
I don't drink but after living in your country for a few years I know you guys like the odd port, merlot, beers and other alcoholic drinks. However I don't remember meeting anyone who made their own. I knew a elderly lady near me here who made her own wines, for medicinal purposes of course 😉.
Sloe Gin is very much a country thing, very popular with rich & poor alike - rather like an old Land Rover!
I haven’t had sloe gin in years, must give it a go!
Oh definitely!
No Sloes at all this year for me. I even looked down in Cornwall where we were staying to see if I could locate any. The only ones I saw I could not get too. So none made this year sadly. However, I did find an old unforgotten bottle of Sloe Gin in the cupboard when I was looking for the Brandy for the Christmas cake. It is very pokey but extremely warming. However, I very much make my liqueurs this way on. Gone have the days where I patiently pricked the fruit. Having no freezer at the moment perhaps it is a good job I did not find any. Next year however is going to be very different! Lovely presentation as usual. Tricia x
Thanks Tricia. It's been a funny year for fruit. It's was a very patchy Spring & I think pollinators were affected.
So jealous,went hunting for sloes after your jelly recipe looked in all the usual places but all of them stripped of fruit, nice recipe will try it next year, thanks for the vid.
It does seem variable! Are you in the South?
@@EnglishCountryLife Up in the north east, normally we have trees bending under the wieght of the fruit, this year nothing, will have to make a huge batch next year, gin and jelly.
@@Andrew.Croft. It was a weird Spring, I think pollination was the issue
I'm not the only one to use a coffee filter then! I usually add sugar at the end, rather than at the beginning. I also add some glycerin which gives it a thicker texture and nicer 'mouth feel' in my opinion at least. My gin, my rules :-D
Cheap, widely available, effective!
Love the video thank you. Can I do more in a bigger jar as I have a 5 litre Kilner? If so do I add same amount of sugar per litre or just add 1 measure of sugar? Thank you in advance.
Hi Tina !
You can definitely do more (in fact you should, I was trying to look restrained 😉). Add the same amount of sugar per litre. The sugar is purely a taste thing so you can add sugar at the end, a little at a time until it tastes just right. You have to taste it each time though. We had a neighbour help with the tasting once. We had to carry him home 😁
I love this. Made me chuckle this morning! I’m off to buy gin..thank you and enjoy your Sunday x
@@tinatowler3623 You too Tina 🙂
Oh goody I need to know this thank you, ill watch after me tea :)
I hope you enjoy, it's super easy!
@@EnglishCountryLife Looks like ill be out berry hunting tomorrow lol great video love things simple......cheers Fiona ;)
@@ASmileAdayful She's always a willing tester 😁
@@EnglishCountryLife lol the things us wives have to do in the name of love bahahaha
@@ASmileAdayful It's a dirty job 😁
No sloes at all in Valencia and although the road side down to the village has brambles for several kilometers, there have been no blackberries this year, just tiny dried up fruits. Fortunately the Co-op in the village sells wine they make from the local vineyards from taps in the wall, at less than €2.00 per litre. Last year's was excellent.
Now that's what I call environmentally friendly!
Over 30 degree and fruit finds it hard to grow..
A shaded area may yield fruit or dig one up and transport it near a shaded river bank.
How big of a bottle of gin are you using? They come in different sizes.
Standard 70cl size 🙂
I prefer sloe gin or vodka but its all too weak. My gran made it as a liquer..superb.
This stuff is pretty much neat gin with flavour!
Then drop the sloes in to sherry for 2 / 3 weeks, awesome!
I've had that done with port, but never sherry!
@@EnglishCountryLife well, not the like the present to try! Just made another one as the first is evaporating!
@@robfnet It would be rude not to make more...
This looks amazing. I have never had a sloe ..... they look relative of plums?
They are indeed a member of the Prunus family (plums, cherries etc.). They are the fruit of the Blackthorn tree (very thorny!) commonly used for stock proof hedging here 🙂
If there is a glut of sloes ,,bullace ,, or damsons any year freeze what you dont use
Good plan - but always leave plenty for wildlife too
Hey, thanks for such an easy viewing experience!
I do have an ask.. I am 8 days in now and somebody has mentioned maggots! Do I need to worry about this because I rinsed and froze but definitely never looked for maggots? Complete rookie in this, I'm on the verge of tipping it away!
Hi Kirk! In half a century of doing this I've never seen a maggot in a sloe? In fact I cannot conceive of any insect larva that could survive immersion in 40% alcohol. You have nothing to worry about 😉
@@EnglishCountryLife that's so refreshing to hear! As I say, complete rookie to all this and somebody had mentioned maggots, knowing very little, I didn't challenge such. Great to know though, thank you so much for the quick response, it is much appreciated.
Videos are brilliant and insightful, keep up the amazing work!
Are Sloes Plums? If the answer is yes, than maybe I can make this yummy(hic)recipe, thanks for sharing, 👍and greetings👋from Mexico. 🤤
Hi Joe, they are a member of the plum family - but small & bitter . You could definitely substitute plums
It's cherry season downunder so the glass jar is filled with roughly chopped cherries in vodka - I've not added sugar at this point - thought I'd add a simple syrup at the time of consumption. Not certain if there's any issue with that approach?
lol - I bothered to go back and watched a few of your earlier vids and of course, you've addressed this question! ;-) It should stick now ...although waiting 2 months could be an issue!
As you noted, no problem. It will be delicious although....you could try maple syrup instead of syrup...
Every Store i go to they do not have Sloe Gin. Every Liquor store i go to does not have it either. I live in Illinois.
It isn't hugely common in the UK but you can find it occasionally. It's something most country people make for themselves here. Does blackthorn grow there?
@@EnglishCountryLife I don't know
@@mr.garlicman3134 It's a good time of year to gather some if it grows there.
@@EnglishCountryLife oh ok
I’ve picked and frozen some sloes in readiness to make some sloe gin. The only question I have is how big is your “one bottle” of gin? 500ml? 750ml? Or a litre?
750ml 🙂
@@EnglishCountryLife Thanks.
@@nigelkthomas9501 No problem 🙂
Can you use bullace instead ?
You can it's very good, and even better in vodka
have you tested the alcohol level with a hygrometer for a final volume %? I'd like to know what that is. thx.
Hi Steve, clearly that depends on the original ABV of the gin. If you start with a 40%ABV it ends up around 35%
I think the old advice of "dont pick them until after the first frost" was spread by people that wanted to scoop them all up before anyone else!🤣Anyway we have freezers these days
Exactly right!
Are they Damsons? 🤔
Definitely sloes from a very thorny Blackthorn but, we do have Bullace here so it may have hybridised as Prunus sp. do.
Hello Hugh, are these otherwise known as Bullaces? We have loads growing wild in nearby hedge rows
Hi Nathan, same family but different fruit. Bullaces are small wild plums whereas sloes are the fruit of the Blackthorn. Smaller and sharper. Both give a fabulous flavour though, so the recipe will work fine with Bullaces!
@@EnglishCountryLife Thank you for taking time to reply. Going to have a try to make some flavoured gin. Best wishes.
@@nathanhendry9845 They work really well Nathan. You can also make a fantastic savory jelly if you follow our sloe jelly recipe.
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Cheers :0)
I'm more for sloe vodka so needed a glamorous assistant 😁
Doesn’t look like sloes thats a tree 😅
Blackthorn is a tree 🙂
@@EnglishCountryLife bullace
No,seriously,it is...😉
Your sloes look rather like bullace to me.
Very definitely sloes. We grow both and indeed plums, damsons, greengages and golden gages. These are sloes.
@@EnglishCountryLife they are a good size for sloes and they seem to be growing in clusters, made me think of the bullace but they are far less common than the sloe
@@Defender200tdi It's very fertile ground - all stone fruit do very well here
No sloes up here round my neck of the woods; but I made blackberry gin, earlier this year, in a similar manner using the leftover pulp from jelly-making with added fresh blackberries. It's very nice! Cheers!
PS: blackberry port made from purchased puree presently racking prior to Calvados-ing
Let me know what you think of the finished port?
GOOD SHIT. THANKS.
Its a good time of year to do it!
Hi Hugh, I’ve made something very similar this year with damsons since we had a bumper harvest. I froze them first for a few days then placed them in neat vodka to see if the absence of sugar would allow the ethanol solvent to extract better since the solution isn’t saturated with sugar - no idea if it makes a difference yet. Plan is to add the sugar to taste at the end.
I bet good money that it works, that's exactly how I make many flavoured spirits. Look out for my next spirits video in a few weeks, there's a side by side comparison. Hugh
@@EnglishCountryLife Post Christmas update - neat vodka then post sweetened worked a treat. The colour of the damson vodka was stunning and it went down a storm with house guests over the Christmas / New Year break - 3 bottles gone 😊. I’ve just started another 5L jar of it with the rest of my frozen damsons ready for Easter. Thanks again for the inspiration.
Is the point about having a lot of sugar or honey not to draw out all the juices by osmosis?
That is simple! I love the ending! You've done all the work and guess who gets to enjoy?! Ha!
I have a other recipe that I will put up shortly that is vodka based - that's my sloe drink of choice 😉
We'll be watching for that vid. I'll have to look to see if sloe will grow in Minnesota.
Thanks again. Two weeks to pickle onion testing time also. Will update
I am confident in my onions 😁. I hope you like them as much as we do - but you may never eat another commercial pickled onion 😉
Nice! Would this recipe work with other berries?
Hi Pete, it definitely does and other spirits, but you may need to adjust the ratios. Take a look at our cherry brandy recipe
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