The jar is then filled with gin, sealed, turned several times to mix and stored in a cool, dark place. A modern variation is to pick the sloes earlier and freeze them overnight, to mimic the effects of frost.Ī wide-necked jar is filled half way with pricked sloes and 4 ounces (110 g) of sugar is added for each 1 imperial pint (570 ml) of sloes. An alternative folktale says that one should not prick the sloes with a metal fork unless it is made of silver. Each sloe is pricked, traditionally with a thorn taken from the blackthorn bush on which they grow. Sloe gin is made from ripe sloes, which are traditionally picked after the first frost of winter (late October to early November in the northern hemisphere). US distilleries often use close relatives of the sloe, such as the beach plum, or more distant ones such as the Aronia berry, to produce a domestic version of sloe gin. Many commercial sloe gins today are made by flavouring less expensive neutral grain spirits, although some manufacturers still use the traditional method.
The addition of sugar is actually likely to inhibit the passage of flavour compounds from the fruit into the spirit, due to a reduction in osmotic pressure a common criticism of sloe gin is that it is much too sweet. The drink develops sweetness when the fruit is left in the alcohol and is allowed to mature. Most recipes call for the addition of sugar, but this is not required. The traditional way of making sloe gin is to soak the sloes in gin.
Sloe gin is technically a gin-based liqueur, but due to historical prevalence at the time of writing the EU spirit drink regulations, the colloquial name 'sloe gin' was included in the legal definitions and as such is the only gin-based liqueur that can legally be called gin without the liqueur suffix. However, the European Union has established a minimum of 25% ABV for sloe gin to be named as such. Sloe gin has an alcohol content between 15 and 30 percent by volume. Sloes are the fruit ( drupe) of Prunus spinosa, the blackthorn plant, a relative of the plum.
Sloe gin is a British red liqueur made with gin and sloes.
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