They look like Sloe/Blackthorn. Relative of other prunus varieties. Look for a single pit to help i.d.
FurryTabbyTomcat
Almost: not schnapps but sloe gin / schlehenlikör. You don’t ferment them but rather throw them into a bottle of gin or vodka and add sugar.
urc2pid
They look like Sloes, you can pick them now and freeze them to simulate frost to breakup their skin. I had a few fresh off the tree today and they were nice.
Schlehe, yes you can make them into a fruit brandy, they usually grow on the edge of forests and you can eat them directly from the brush, but they’re very tart and make your mouth feel fuzzy.
Sweaty_Garden_2939
Look up “freeze jacking” it’s a process for making applejack or any other type of “jacked” beverage from fermented items and freezing out the water then draining the remaining liquid. It will give you the worst hangover on earth.
Criticus23
I’ve been bottling some sloe gin and other sloe-flavoured alcohols today that have been steeping for four years (I forgot about them!). The sloes need to be bletted (frost-overripened) before you do it, or they will be too astringent. Plenty of recipes/guides on line. I’ve done the traditional gin, but also rum, vodka, cider (that’s nice!) and red wine – that makes what my book calls ‘sloe port’, and is a very thick viscous drink which is amazing as a marinade for venison!
If you like plummy drinks, or things like Cherry Heering, you’d like the sloe drinks.
benNachtheim
You make wine from them. Schlehenwein / sloe wine. I guess you can distill it thereafter
flavouredicecubes
I don’t know if it’s an urban myth but mother always used to give me a measure of sloe gin if I had a cold
Aztec_Aesthetics
You can harvest now, as long as they are not too ripe and put them into the freezer for a few days. After that let them thaw thoroughly and then make sloe gin.
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They look like Sloe/Blackthorn. Relative of other prunus varieties. Look for a single pit to help i.d.
Almost: not schnapps but sloe gin / schlehenlikör. You don’t ferment them but rather throw them into a bottle of gin or vodka and add sugar.
They look like Sloes, you can pick them now and freeze them to simulate frost to breakup their skin. I had a few fresh off the tree today and they were nice.
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Schlehe, yes you can make them into a fruit brandy, they usually grow on the edge of forests and you can eat them directly from the brush, but they’re very tart and make your mouth feel fuzzy.
Look up “freeze jacking” it’s a process for making applejack or any other type of “jacked” beverage from fermented items and freezing out the water then draining the remaining liquid. It will give you the worst hangover on earth.
I’ve been bottling some sloe gin and other sloe-flavoured alcohols today that have been steeping for four years (I forgot about them!). The sloes need to be bletted (frost-overripened) before you do it, or they will be too astringent. Plenty of recipes/guides on line. I’ve done the traditional gin, but also rum, vodka, cider (that’s nice!) and red wine – that makes what my book calls ‘sloe port’, and is a very thick viscous drink which is amazing as a marinade for venison!
If you like plummy drinks, or things like Cherry Heering, you’d like the sloe drinks.
You make wine from them. Schlehenwein / sloe wine. I guess you can distill it thereafter
I don’t know if it’s an urban myth but mother always used to give me a measure of sloe gin if I had a cold
You can harvest now, as long as they are not too ripe and put them into the freezer for a few days. After that let them thaw thoroughly and then make sloe gin.