Sloe gin has a complicated reputation. In the U.S., it is perhaps most associated with the famous Alabama Slammer, which ruled the college drinking scene in the '70s and '80s. However, sloe gin has a ...

What’s startlingly red, has a biting astringency and a soft sweet finish? There are a surprising amount of candidates that fit that description, including the new Fords Sloe Gin expression. The fact ...

The last few years has seen our nation gripped by a cocktail craze. Alternating between classic ingredients like bourbon, rye and gin, and liquors so obscure that the recipes used to create them need ...

“Sloe is to England what limoncello is to Italy,” remarks Jared Brown, drinks historian and Master Distiller of Sipsmith Gin. “But then it hit me: limoncello is palatable.” While arriving at the final ...

Growing up in the 1980s, one thing an all-American kid with a basement bar could count on were the old-timey bottles way back on the shelves. Crusted shut by their own syrupy nature, these neglected ...

If you’ve never heard of the sloe berry, we don’t blame you. The jammy, plumlike fruit is common mostly in Western Europe, where it grows in bluish-black bunches on the prickly branches of blackthorn ...

Sloe gin's origins go back to the hedgerows of blackthorn bushes that served as fences all across England when common farmland was divvied up in the 17th century. Their plum-like, inky blue-purple ...

Are you looking for a way to honor Loretta Lynn’s legacy today, after learning of her death at 90? Here’s a plan: First listen to the song “Portland, Oregon” and then find (or make) a sloe gin fizz.