Plum gin!
05 January 2010, 04:47 PM
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Plum gin!
Made some of this to the same recipe as sloe gin last September, and bottled it up yesterday.
We drained the liquor and removed the plums around mid November, removed all the plum-stones and replaced the fruit back into the liquor. My wife had read somewhere that this avoids the plumstones making the finished liqueur bitter.
And boy, has it worked. The stuff is tarter than sloe gin, with the same warming as it goes down and the same bite/kick.
We have kept the liqueur-soaked plum fruit in a large screw-topped jar and are serving it with ice cream.
Weird how you add 2 litres of gin to the mix, but end up with 2 litres of plum gin, half a litre of extra thick plum gin and loads of liqueur-soaked fruit. Unless my Mrs has added extra gin............
We drained the liquor and removed the plums around mid November, removed all the plum-stones and replaced the fruit back into the liquor. My wife had read somewhere that this avoids the plumstones making the finished liqueur bitter.
And boy, has it worked. The stuff is tarter than sloe gin, with the same warming as it goes down and the same bite/kick.
We have kept the liqueur-soaked plum fruit in a large screw-topped jar and are serving it with ice cream.
Weird how you add 2 litres of gin to the mix, but end up with 2 litres of plum gin, half a litre of extra thick plum gin and loads of liqueur-soaked fruit. Unless my Mrs has added extra gin............
05 January 2010, 05:05 PM
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i nearly bought some mulled wine earlier in the week, but didnt trust myself to drink it sensibly !!! 
- so i didn't
- and now i fancy some !!
- so i didn't
- and now i fancy some !!
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05 January 2010, 05:40 PM
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Mate did it with some damsons last year , quite good
might have been better if left 12 years like Les did , but didnt have that sort of willpower !
might have been better if left 12 years like Les did , but didnt have that sort of willpower !
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nice one... seen them on the web so will give this a go me thinks !!
might drop a jar off at my folks for long term storage as i'll crack into it the first time my beer supply runs out !!
might drop a jar off at my folks for long term storage as i'll crack into it the first time my beer supply runs out !!
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The old glass sweet jars are ideal for making it, if you can find them still.
I usually mix a few damsons with the sloes and sometimes make it with all damsons. As Alcazar says it is very nice. I usually make 3 or 4 bottles at a time amd put one away for posterity.
It is important to use good gin-cheap stuff is never so good.
Les
I usually mix a few damsons with the sloes and sometimes make it with all damsons. As Alcazar says it is very nice. I usually make 3 or 4 bottles at a time amd put one away for posterity.
It is important to use good gin-cheap stuff is never so good.
Les
