Where do you buy bottles from to make homemade gin etc?

[ComeWhineWithMe]

I want to make sloe gin but wondered where to get bottles from.

TIA

[Meow75]

Buy some bottles of wine for their screw capped-ness rather than the quality of their wine. If it IS good wine, that's a win win!!!!

[childrenofthecornsilk]

what is sloe gin? I may want to make it too

[ComeWhineWithMe]

Thanks I think I might try this instead.


Cornsilk- this is sloe gin.

[Meow75]

will these do?

[childrenofthecornsilk]

that sounds lush

[Indith]

here is great. The bottles are perfect and very good value. I got some last year for chiristmas presents and most of them have already been used several times over.

[overmydeadbody]

jamjarshop.com is good

[overmydeadbody]

I love their swing top bottles

[childrenofthecornsilk]

so grolsch bottles would do then?

[childrenofthecornsilk]

are sloes big? will they fit in a wine bottle?

[ComeWhineWithMe]

The swing top bottles look really good :).

Thanks aswell Meow have bookmarked both links.

Could do grolsch also :).

[ComeWhineWithMe]

People are selling sloes on ebay .

[Indith]

Sloes are tiny, they would happily fit in a wine bottle. I've got a load of small bottles going in the little cordial bottles from the jam jar shop for presents and then I just shoved a load of sloes into the gin bottle for the rest! You could just remove the need for bottles by drinking half the gin......

[childrenofthecornsilk]

Indith that's a brilliant idea. Drink the gin it is then.

[ComeWhineWithMe]

I don't like gin or vodka ...dp is going to have to be chief tester .

[Indith]

It completely changes the taste though. SLoe gin is beautiful. I've made some elderberry vodka this year and it is so smooth.

[ComeWhineWithMe]

Now this would tempt me www.wikihow.com/Make-Christmas-Pudding-Flavoured-Vodka.

[ProfYaffle]

I make chutney so deliberately choose pretty, slender necked bottles of vinegar (Tesco's own I think). I use the vinegar for chutney and keep the empty bottles for sloe gin. Our local hardware shop also sells those swing top bottles which are nice.