When you say “maturing”, do you mean to say the drupes are still in the bottle? I’d normally have them out within a few months, but then again I tend to add sugar to the sloe / gin mixture when I’m bottling it initially.
I don’t profess to be an expert on this, but having made it both ways (with sugar at the start, and without), I do know that the addition of sugar speeds up the extraction of the juice and flavours from the sloes.
Yes, still in the bottle. Many years ago I had the pleasure of sharing a fresh bottle with a hippy dippy type lassie who incidentally had the hairiest fanny I’ve ever seen, live or on screen, and we ate the drupes as we drank.
I went all Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall last year and made a syrup from scratch but the end product was a disaster. I guess now I’m left with only the second of your options, sugar second, and need to figure out how to do it right.
Presume once the syrup is right you just add a bit, mix and taste… and repeat until you’re happy…?
Sounds like a reasonable approach.
Sipsmith have a recipe online for sloe gin via the addition of syrup. Maybe give that one a shot?
Sound. I’ll take a gander.
The sloe gin fortified wine matured for a little longer than 8 months, but the current lock down has been the perfect opportunity to crack it open. I’m pleased to report that it was worth the wait. Every cloud, etc.
About time you showed up. I think we are playing with a full deck now, the days of SARS-Cov-2 are numbered.
I had a G&T at the weekend with the first lime of the year from the dwarf lime in the garden and it was delicious.
The lime is the friend of gin.
Quinine is your friend mate.
you’d have to be drinking 8 litres a day.
Whatever the fuck it is, it sounds disgusting.
It’s in the tonic water you’re drinking mate.
It’s not malaria we are trying to combat, a low dosage may be sufficient.
Not from tonic water ffs. It’s very disappointing that you are leading posters on and preying on their hopes … have you shares in fever tree or something?
Are you a chemist? The quinine in tonic water is exactly the same as the quinine prescribed for Malaria. The tans in India invented tonic water as a palatable way to drink quinine.
Come out of the fog will ya
I’m drinking half a litre daily and I haven’t died once
Christ, do you have to take the joy out of everything?
Bombay Sapphire 22€ a bottle in SuperValu.
What’s this pink gin in cans that’s all the go lately?