Few Americans have much of an acquaintance with sloe gin, outside of the syrupy sweet and infamous Sloe Screw (sloe gin and orange juice). That’s a shame, because whether you pick it up at your local store or make your own, sloe gin shines in a surprising number of cocktails.
Sloe Gin Cocktail
- 2 oz. sloe gin
- ¼ tsp. dry vermouth
- 1 dash orange bitters
Stir all ingredients with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass and serve.
Born on the 4th of July
- 1 ½ oz. blue curacao liqueur
- 1 ½ oz. sloe gin
- heavy cream
Pour blue curacao into an ice-filled collins glass. Carefully layer both the sloe gin and the cream on top of the ice. The result should be a blue and red drink with tendrils of white shooting through the colors.
Bitter Christina
- 1 oz. dry vermouth
- 1 oz. sloe gin
- 4 oz. bitter lemon soda
- 1 splash Pisang Ambon liqueur
Pour dry vermouth into a highball glass filled with ice. Add sloe gin and Pisang Ambon, and stir well. Top off with bitter lemon soda.
Cape Cod Cooler
- 2 oz. sloe gin
- 1 oz. gin
- 5 oz. cranberry juice
- ½ oz. fresh lime juice
- ½ oz. orgeat syrup
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes, and shake well. Strain into a collins glass over ice. Garnish with a slice of lime.
Sloe Gin Collins
- 2 oz. sloe gin
- juice of ½ lemon
- carbonated water
- 1 slice lemon
- 1 slice orange
- 1 cherry
Combine sloe gin and lemon juice in a shaker with ice and shake briskly. Strain into a collins glass, add several ice cubes, fill with carbonated water and stir. Add slices of lemon and orange, top with the cherry, and serve with a straw.
Chekhov Cooler
- 2 oz. raspberry vodka
- ½ oz. sloe gin
- 4 oz. cranberry-raspberry juice
- 6 fresh raspberries
- mint sprig
Pour the raspberry vodka, sloe gin, and cranberry-raspberry juice over several ice cubes in a double old-fashioned glass. Add fresh raspberries and garnish with the mint.
San Francisco Cocktail
- ¾ oz. sweet vermouth
- ¾ oz. dry vermouth
- ¾ oz. sloe gin
- 1 dash orange bitters
- 1 dash bitters
Shake all ingredients with ice, and strain into a cocktail glass. Add a cherry for garnish.
Flips and fizzes are seldom seen in bars these days, and require a certain touch. Make sure to shake very vigorously to make sure the egg is emulsified. (Pasteurized egg products can be substituted for the raw egg.)
Sloe Gin Flip
- 1 tablespoon sloe gin
- 2 teaspoons light cream
- 1 teaspoon powdered sugar
- 1 whole egg
- nutmeg
Combine all ingredients except nutmeg with ice in a shaker, and shake briskly. Strain into a whiskey sour glass. Sprinkle nutmeg on top to serve.
Merry Widow Fizz
- 1 ½ oz. sloe gin
- juice of ½ orange
- juice of ½ lemon
- 1 egg white
- 1 tsp powdered sugar
- carbonated water
Combine all ingredients except carbonated water with ice in a shaker, and shake briskly. Strain into a highball glass over two ice cubes. Top off with carbonated water, stir, and serve.
Ruby Fizz
- 2 oz. sloe gin
- 1 tsp. grenadine syrup
- juice of ½ lemon
- 1 tsp. powdered sugar
- 1 egg white
- carbonated water
Combine all ingredients except carbonated water with ice in a shaker, and shake briskly. Strain into a highball glass over two ice cubes. Top off with carbonated water, stir, and serve.
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