Sloe Gin

[janzbro]

enough for 1 litre bottle of spirits or a just 750ml?

Oh Ill just get a litre and see if more sloes are about LOL

[Shadylane]

I'd say 750.

[janzbro]

I have a few 1 gallon demijons in the garage, would these be too large for a brew (to much air space) - would this allow it to spoil?

Could I use an old plastic milk carton (cleaned and sterilised of course) as there shouldnt be any fermentation going on.

[Shadylane]

I don't think the excess air space would cause a problem and I've heard of people using plastic bottles. I tried sterilising a squash bottle with boiling water and the heat distorted it so it wouldn't stand up. Depends on the plastic I suppose.
Personally I use wine bottles as we... er drink quite a bit of wine.

[smallblueplanet]

Blimey there's a lot of sugary recipes about...

Our fruit alcohol recipes are somewhere around a

3 : 2 : 1 ratio

3 parts alcohol : 2 parts fruit : 1 part sugar

So our latest 'sloe gin' - Pacharan (Spanish sloe gin) was:

400 ml ouzo
200g sloes
125g sugar
1 cinnamon stick

Although our Raspberry Gin was:

350ml gin
300g raspberries
115g sugar

Because we had loads of spare raspberries!

Last years Christmas Gin (very popular!) was:

300ml gin
200g sloes
100g sugar
2 cinnamon sticks
3 cloves

[Hilary B]

My sloe gin only uses about 5 oz sugar per lb sloes (sometimes less). I do use rather less gin than the typical recipe. Last year I used a litre of gin to about 3lb sloes, made over 1½ litres liqueur, which is enough for us.