How to drink sloe gin

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I've been given a bottle of sloe gin.
Other than knocking it back neat, what are your preferred ways to drink it?

With prosecco or aromatic tonic water

Only like it neat but have seen it mixed with prosecco for a Christmas drink

try it with lemon / orange tonic water and lots of ice I quite like that.
or a fruity tonic water such as rhubarb?

slices of orange or raspberries are quite nice with it if you wanted a garnish

Neat as an aperitif.

Sounds ace, thank you 🙂

Neat from a hip flask on a cold day

Bitter lemon. I was dubious at first, but it tastes lovely.

With Prosecco.
I normally won’t touch Prosecco as it’s way too dry for my taste, but with a bit of sloe gin in it? Beautiful 🙌🏻

With fevertree gold tonic but strong on the gin, more than a double.

Lemonade

Or ginger ale - sounds odd but really makes a nice zing.

Bitter lemon.

Ginger beer or hot apple juice. Wishing I had made some this year now.

I've been having it with prosecco today, very nice!

Hot buttered toddy nonesuchdistillery.com.au/blogs/news/hot-buttered-sloe-gin-toddy-recipe

With prosecco!
or decent tonic, ice and loads of orange. You could even throw in some orange gin if you want something strong! Yum!

Bitter lemon and lots of ice. Lush

With Prosecco is my favourite because it makes it taste extra Christmassy, but I also like it with that Fevertree aromatic tonic water, with bitter lemon, with ginger ale, or with lemonade. It depends upon how sweet you like your drinks - lemonade is best for fans of sweeter drinks, followed my ginger ale, but bitter lemon and tonic water are better for lovers of drier drinks.

Sloe gin French 75 = dangerous. Delicious but dangerous.

Shake gin, lemon juice and sugar syrup with ice (to taste, I think it's normally 2:1:1 when you use straight gin but sloe gin is sweeter and sweetness varies so you need to adjust.

Add a good slug to the bottom of a champagne flute (maybe 1/3 of the flute?) and top up with prosecco/sparkling wine of choice).

Slowly.

I like it with lemonade but it's also nice with cream soda as I found out on a camping trip when I ran out of lemonade.

It’s nice in a Negroni - normally I’d do equal parts Campari/red vermouth/gin, but as sloe gin is sweeter I’d scale back the Campari or do half sloe, half regular gin.

Topped up with boiling water.

Related: I have a cold.

Like wine. But then that’s me… I do like it a lot though.

With champagne or Prosecco! 😋

Elderberry gin is really good for colds.