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Re: RIP 15 year old sloe gin
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:51 pm
by Milims
Apparently that came us as a word on Countdown recently!
Andy - you did give our fruit gins and vodkas a fair appraisal
Re: RIP 15 year old sloe gin
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 10:53 am
by ina
1977? That must have been just before I arrived in Britain for the first time... Otherwise I'm sure I would remember! I remember the eerie emptiness of the country on the day of the royal wedding....
Anyway - how come you all have ancient alcohol in your houses? It never seems to keep that well in mine! ;)
Re: RIP 15 year old sloe gin
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 11:11 am
by Odsox
ina wrote:I remember the eerie emptiness of the country on the day of the royal wedding....
I remember an eerie emptiness on the day of the coronation
But I didn't drink any alcohol at all THAT day !
It was very memorable for the fact that I watched it on TV (and then had to wait another 8 years before I saw my next TV program)
Re: RIP 15 year old sloe gin
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:42 pm
by roger ramjet
Over Christmas and New Year I have been drinking sloe vodka that I started at the end of last September; it was pure nectar. It is great on a really cold frosty night; a real winter warmer. I only used vodka because I could get it cheaper than gin; the taste is much the same though. For this type of drink I don't believe that it improves much at all with long term keeping. As the berries were of terrific quality last season I am using the same ones again to make a second batch.
A friend told me that she sometimes uses the soaked berries to make sloe muffins. It sounds good, but I think to remove all the stones must be laborious.
Roger Ramjet