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[John Fenna]

No sloes at all here...
I would not worry about the stones - I have drunk manys a bottle and it has done me no harm yet!

 

[TallMikeM]

the longest I can generally make any amount of sloe gin last is about 10 months, I never bother to take the stones out and I'm still (more or less) here.

 

[addo]

I'm getting withdrawal. Not only have I stupidly had a break from making it, now that I want to again there's a draught on berries.
Had scout around my area and the farmer has done his best to kill the hedges with a flail too, so there's Bob hope!

Still I reckon there's enough for at least a litre on one of the healthy hedges, but as said is loads nicer if you leave it a year or so.

 

[Harvestman]

Plenty of sloes near me. I tend to make 2 harvests; a pre-frost one, which gives a lighter and sharper flavour, and a post-frost for maximum fruitiness. The second crop tends to be the main one.

Currently I have the following on the go:
First crop sloe gin
Blackberries in white rum
Rowan in vodka
Elderberry & blueberry in vodka
Pineapple weed vodka
Pineapple weed gin
Wild thyme in vodka
Raspberry vodka
A mix of elderberry, blackberry and sloe in white rum
(just the one bottle of each)

I also have beech leaf liqueur in gin and vodka left from the spring

 

[mountainy man]

Thanks folks, will chance it so, yes cyanide I couldn't think of it at the time. If it kills me I'll come back and haunt ye

 

[johnnytheboy]

There are no sloes here at all, I heard a bad frost or cold killed all the buds!! there is nothing on our shoot ground and there is piles of bushes, looks like the ebay dried ones will need to go in this years batch!!