If you want to try an alcoholic recipe sloe gin has to worth your time. If you enjoy drinking gin, you will likely have tried various mixers over the years, partly as experiments to make your tipple more like a cocktail, and sometimes to mask the taste of a brand that was a little bitter.
Sloe gin is simply gin that has been flavoured with pierced sloe berries soaked in sugar – this adds a strong fruit flavour to the gin. You are adding berries to berries here, so alternatives also work – you can try raspberries, strawberries or blackberries. They all provide a distinctive flavour.
Sloes provide a distinctive additional bitterness, which is why the sugar is necessary. The resulting drink mixture is very high in calories, so you should only sip a little at a time, but that is all you need to enjoy the warmth and exotic taste.
This is an easy recipe and you can make four to ten bottles in a single day.