Sloe advice please

baz_chaz

Typical of my impatience after posting about the cheeze grater idea I just tried it on a few as they are.... it works brilliantly, just pricks through the skins nicely without any squishing, so no need to freeze 'em tonight :T

Going to head off in the morning and get the cheapy booze hope I bump into some of the more 'straight lace' members of the village in the supermarket as I'm there with half a dozen bottles of vodka and a couple of bottles of gin :beer::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

looks like there's going to be some winter warmth somewhere about christmas :j

Lotus-eater

My OH soaks off the labels and makes up a nice new one, with our house on it and the date.

Mind you, I normally keep a couple of bottles with the old cheapy label, then anyone who I think is a bit undeserving of my hard work, home made infusions, gets offered some from this. I am usually correct and they don't want any
Just the same, I tell those people when they come round and admire my tomatoes that I fertilise them with my own pee, that usually stops them asking for a taste.

buddywitch

Can anyone enlighten me on the cheapest prices of gin please?

baz_chaz

I've checked Teco and Asda price checker, they both have Own Label Dry London gin @ £8.18 and O/L Imperial Vodka @ £7.98, they're the handiest for me (although thats 10 miles south to Tesco or 12 miles north to Asda) village post office/shop don't do bhooze

Possibly Aldi or Lidle might do cheaper, but it's a three day camel ride for me out in the sticks here to either of them ... and I want to make it in the morning how am I going to wait 2 or 3 months before it's ready

buddywitch

The best thing is that sloe gin matures the longer you leave it (after you have removed the fruit). Stumbled across a bottle in the cupboard from 1998, and that was almost syrupy and smooth, buddy beautiful.

Thanks for doing the price checker for me.

baz_chaz

Well that was a very satisfactory mornings work, the sloes were washed and rolled around with the cheeze grater to p-rick the skins, it worked a treat :rotfl: now have 3 bottles of sloe vodka 3 of sloe gin 3 of bramble vodka :beer: all I need now is some patience

Thanks all for tips and encouragement :T

Charco_2

Is it all just as simple as that?

Buy cheap gin
Wash and pierce all your fruit
Immerse Fruit in your liquer for a few months then distil back into nice bottles!

Whoops, forpot the sugar!

muppet83

I still freeze my sloe cause it apparently breaks them down more so releases more juice. No idea if its true though. Wish I read the cheese grater idea before I spent hours pricking them last night. although 3bottle and 2 jars of pure yummyness its all worth while. Cheapest Gin I found was Sainsurys own £7.48.

spugzbunny

My OH insisted we used Bombay Saffire - I kid ye not! It's not done enough for 2 litres so I'll be topping it up with the cheapest gin I can find!

baz_chaz

Went and gave all the bottles a shake this morning


the last bottle I did I was a bit heavy handed with the cheeze grater, deliberately rolled the grater round on them with more pressure to split the skins rather than just puncture them. Theres no difference in colour between the 'heavier' split ones than the gently pierced ones, both are colouring nicely already :j