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 has a ...

Let's be clear: while it may seem like gin by any other name, sloe gin is technically a liqueur. The berry-pink drink is born a regular gin, but the booze is then steeped with sugar and sloe (a rouge ...

What’s startlingly red, has a biting astringency and a soft sweet finish? There are a surprising amount of candidates that fit that description, including the new Fords Sloe Gin expression. The fact ...

The last few years has seen our nation gripped by a cocktail craze. Alternating between classic ingredients like bourbon, rye and gin, and liquors so obscure that the recipes used to create them need ...

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 home batch.

“Sloe is to England what limoncello is to Italy,” remarks Jared Brown, drinks historian and Master Distiller of Sipsmith Gin. “But then it hit me: limoncello is palatable.” While arriving at the final ...

Any memories from sloe gin's doldrums are probably sickly sweet, with a throbbing head to boot. Like me, you probably tried to forget such things as a Sloe Comfortable Screw. Not only did the sloe gin ...

Growing up in the 1980s, one thing an all-American kid with a basement bar could count on were the old-timey bottles way back on the shelves. Crusted shut by their own syrupy nature, these neglected ...

Buckingham Palace is launching its own brand of sloe gin. The Royal Collection Trust (RCT) have announced the launch of the latest addition to its drinks collection following the success of its own ...