Sloe Gin is not Gin, that is the first thing you should know. And this sloe gin rickey will give you a nice cocktail for the weekend and a conversation starter as well.

I recently stayed overnight at Thornbury Castle, now a hotel but once owned by one of our most notorious kings - in fact, you can stay in the room he used to share with Anne Boleyn.

With its zesty homemade lemon sugar rim and smooth citrusy kick, this cocktail is an absolute favorite to make at home. Perfect Lemon Drop Martini. ... Easy Sloe Gin Fizz. I’ll never get tired of the ...

Marksologist Sloe Gin Sour. £18, 50cl, M&S; 4/5; 9. ... It first became popular in the 18th Century when we began to add sugar and sloe berries from blackthorn bushes to homemade gins.

The most popular use, however, is to make sloe gin - versions of which exist all over Europe, including the Basque drink patxaran. Where to find sloes.

Sloe gin has a complicated reputation. In the U.S., it is perhaps most associated with the famous Alabama Slammer, which ruled the college drinking scene in the '70s and '80s. However, sloe gin ...

The sloe gin story starts in hedgerows ... “British country life is all about the harvesting and homemade ethos, and sloe gin-making is popular in the south-west of England and across more ...

The Sloe Down Mckay is named after Jiplin and the cocktail’s alcohol base. It is a combination of sloe gin-infused black truffle, strawberry liquor, homemade raspberry puree, ...

While my experience of foraging extended to picking raspberries for a crumble in my childhood and sampling my mum's homemade sloe gin, I was keen to learn what eating from the land truly meant.

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 ...