Sloe Gin

[Lightspeed]

This evening while walkig the dog, we collected a couple of pounds of sloes from the hedgerows.

Sloe Gin making activities to start any day now. hee hee

[Stevew]

i`ve noticed theres a good crop of slows this year i`m thinking of incorporating some into my next batch of mead

[Barneyboy]

can anything else be done with them ?

[Steve]

Lots of sloes around here, but folklore says not to pick them until they have been touched by frost. I have some cheap vodka on standby for them.

[Lightspeed]

(11 September 2013, 09:22)Steve Wrote: Lots of sloes around here, but folklore says not to pick them until they have been touched by frost. I have some cheap vodka on standby for them.

If hey are ripe, pick them now, before the birds/ foragers get them.

The old way of making sloe gin was to hand prick the sloes with a pin.... a couple of years a go a friend shoewd me a trich to get around this horribly messy chore.....simply deep freeze the sloes, this bursts their cells when they thaw out, this 100% pricking them :-)

Folklore once again has the answers before modern technology was even tought of eh?

[Scythe13]

Didn't people used to run their cars on Sloe Gin?

[Lightspeed]

(11 September 2013, 10:24)Scythe13 Wrote: Didn't people used to run their cars on Sloe Gin?

The stuff I make could stun an elephant, but I think it'd gum up the works of a car in pretty short order!


Definitely not one to try on your new Ferarri Scythe!

[Scythe13]

(11 September 2013, 10:48)Lightspeed Wrote: Definitely not one to try on your new Ferrari Scythe!

What about the old one? haha

[Lightspeed]

(11 September 2013, 11:10)Scythe13 Wrote:

(11 September 2013, 10:48)Lightspeed Wrote: Definitely not one to try on your new Ferrari Scythe!

What about the old one? haha

Thought you'd slipped a Defender TD3 powerplant and transmission into that one to use as a BOV??????

[Scythe13]

(11 September 2013, 11:29)Lightspeed Wrote:

(11 September 2013, 11:10)Scythe13 Wrote:

(11 September 2013, 10:48)Lightspeed Wrote: Definitely not one to try on your new Ferrari Scythe!

What about the old one? haha

Thought you'd slipped a Defender TD3 powerplant and transmission into that one to use as a BOV??????

Thanks LS! Total OPSEC F**K!!!! Now I've got to write it off and start again haha.