How to make sloe gin: a quick and easy recipe for this delicious homemade gin liqueur - Craft Gin Club | The UK's No.1 gin club

While there are some lovely sloe gins available, nothing could be more satisfying than making your own batch of this stunning, deep purple flavoured gin.And with the blackthorn bushes around the country heaving with an abundance of sloe berries almost ready for you to pick, then now - September - is the perfect season to try your hand at this lovely recipe.Not tried sloe gin before or new to the whole homemade gin thing? Let’s cover a few of the basics first!What is sloe gin?Sloe gin is not, in fact, gin! Technically, it’s a flavoured gin liqueur…Sloe gin is a ruby-red liqueurOk, so now you’re wondering, what does that mean - what’s the difference between gin and sloe gin? And what does sloe gin taste like?Well, while ginis made from distilling a base spirit with juniper and additional herbs and spices to create a clear spirit that’s about 40% alcohol, sloe ginis made by combining an existing gin with lots of sugar andsloeberries. Over time, the flavour of the sloe berries steeps into...