I have a question: does anyone make a good sloe gin? I'm not criticizing the drink. I'm talking about the fact that the only sloe gin I can find is a bottle of Leroux that was collecting dust in the discount corner. It seems like the majority of liqueurs leave me only two choices: Leroux or Hiram Walker. I assume both are highly sweetened and chemical-ized.
G said that the Blackthorn was somewhere in between candy and cough syrup. The sloe gin has a bit of a fake cherry quality, and an aftertaste, which I think explains the cough syrup feel. It's not bad though. It's hard to know what to do with a description like, "oh, kind of like cough syrup, but in a good way," but that's more or less the way it is.
Not a bad drink, but I need to find somebody else's sloe gin to really know. Otherwise I'll just assume that sloe gin is kind of an also-ran spirit.
Difford's recipe for the Blackthorn is nothing like this at all. It's much more like an Appetizer--all Difford's recipes with Blackthorn in the name have gin and Dubonnet. The color and taste are extremely similar, which makes sense. None of the ingredients are the same, per se, but all the ingredients are similar. Both are simply gin, plus a sweetener, plus an apertif wine of some sort.
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