Born a regular gin, the booze used to make sloe gin is steeped with sugar and sloe (a rouge berry from the Blackthorn plant) to sweeten the spirit and lower the proof to as low as 15%.

Sloe gin is a festive old English drink that’s especially well-suited to the winter holidays. You can drink it over ice, try it in a cocktail, or forage for sloe berries and make a home batch.

While sloe gin is traditionally drunk over ice as a digestif, it is also versatile in modern cocktails. How to make holiday cocktails with sloe gin - Chicago Sun-Times ...

It's fascinating how one liquor can inspire such different nostalgic connections for different people. Take sloe gin. For Simon Ford, brand "ambassador" for newly imported Plymouth Sloe Gin, the ...

LONDON — Sloe gin is a festive old English drink that’s especially well-suited to the winter sipping. You can drink it over ice, try it in a cocktail, or forage for sloe berries and make a ...

I f you're looking for the perfect balance of sweet, tart, and refreshing, impress your friends with this low-ABV, easy-sipping summer cocktail: the sloe gin fizz.This retro beverage is made with ...

Pour sloe gin, absinthe, lemon juice and simple syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker; shake until chilled. Strain into a flute glass. Slowly pour Champagne into flute to fill.

Plymouth Sloe Gin, revived from its original 1883 recipe, landed in the States last year in a batch of just 1,000 cases. And according to the folks we talked to, it’s the end-all, be-all for ...