Sloe Gin

Got to making the sloe gin today.

First I spent two hours pricking 1kg of sloes with a fork (they are marble sized). Then I half filled a number of bottles with the sloes and added 1oz. of sugar for every 250ml of gin. Having written this, I'm now not sure if that means 10z. sugar + 250ml gin (+ sloes) or 10z. sugar in 250ml gin/sloes. I've done the latter but will now double check those quantities and report back.

I had an official check of the gin and it tastes very sweet, which I quite like. However, the sloes are very acidic and will probably counteract this sweetness in time. It now has to sit for two months, handily ready for Christmas.

Next up . . . Sloe jelly or sloe wine, depending on if I can be bothered to bottle the apple wine and free the demijohn in which to make the sloe wine! Decisions, decisions.