If you want to drink a sloe gin fizz in “a booth in the corner with the lights down low,” well, you will need to find a place with booths and sloe gin fizz. Which is harder than it may sound.

Summer is here, which means we're looking for the perfect cocktail to sip in the heat. This retro gin tipple fits the bill and is ripe for variation.

Mother’s Ruin Sloe Gin Fizz. 1½ oz (50ml) Sloe Gin. ¾ oz (25ml) freshly squeezed lemon juice. ¼ oz 12.5ml sugar syrup (buy or make your own) Sparkling water.

Born a regular gin, the booze used to make sloe gin is steeped with sugar and sloe (a rouge berry from the Blackthorn plant) to sweeten the spirit and lower the proof to as low as 15%.

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Pour in the sloe gin, fresh lemon juice, and simple syrup. Shake the mixture vigorously for about 15-20 seconds to chill the ingredients.

While sloe gin is traditionally drunk over ice as a digestif, it is also versatile in modern cocktails. How to make holiday cocktails with sloe gin - Chicago Sun-Times ...

You can swap gin with sloe gin in cocktails, but sloe gin isn't actually a type of liquor. Find out what sloe gin is made from and how to use it in drinks.

LONDON (AP) — Sloe gin is a festive old English drink that's especially well-suited to the winter holidays. You can drink it over ice, try it in a cocktail, or forage for sloe berries and make a ...