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Spirit-forward · Stirred · Historical · complexity 2/5

Sloe Gin Cocktail

Applegreen's Sloe Gin Cocktail folds berry liqueur into the stirred aperitif family with dry gin support.

berry · red_fruit · botanical · aperitif · formal

Served in Cocktail glass. Ice: Ice.

Family

Variants (3)

Applegreen's Bar Book by John Applegreen (1904, p.17) — Applegreen 1904

1 piecelemon peel — lemon peelacid
0.5 jiggerLondon dry gin — dry ginbase
1 dashorange bitters — orange bittersbase
0.5 jiggersloe gin — sloe ginbase
  1. Stir the orange bitters, sloe gin, dry gin, lemon peel, and ice.
  2. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Garnish: Lemon peel

Ice: Ice

Nose
Berry fruit and gin botanicals rise together.
Palate
This is useful because it shows sloe gin appearing not only in long drinks but also in compact stirred cocktail service.
Finish
The finish is fruity, bittered, and lightly dry.
Summary
A berry-laced stirred aperitif from the sloe-gin branch.

Jack's Manual by J. A. Grohusko (1910, p.80)

0.75 portionsloe gin base
0.25 portionItalian vermouth modifier
ice — Fill glass with ice.other
  1. Stir the sloe gin and Italian vermouth with ice.
  2. Strain into a cocktail glass and serve.

Ice: Ice

The Barkeeper's Manual by Raymond E. Sullivan (1910, p.5) — Sullivan 1910, cocktails section

2 jiggersloe gin — Sloe Ginbase
1 dashorange bitters — Orange Bittersbitter
to tastegum syrup — Gum Syrupsweetener
  1. Strain through ice and serve.

Ice: Ice

Lineage reconciliation

See also: Sloe Gin Fizz, Sloe Gin Rickey