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San Francisco (Café Royal)
Fruity, aromatic and complex. This is one of my favourite sloe gin cocktails, made all the more appealing by its bijou serve
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8th December 2024 at 17:35
Currently out of sloe gin but made a very nice drink with damson gin. Also recommended with patxaran instead of sloe gin.
30th September 2024 at 23:37
I appreciate this little gem of a sipper and was able to open an Irish sloe gift. Used: Minke Sloe, Cocchi VDT, Dolin Dry, BT Orange and 1821 Prohibition Aromatic. Lovely. I love an “around the house cocktail” something for whilst cooking or doing house work, unwinding etc. this will certainly be part of my Rolodex of around the housers. Smoothing but not one that will get you shnockered, so you can still run to the market for a missing ingredient for your braise/roast.
31st January at 17:53
This idea of “around the house cocktails” got stuck in my head. I love it. Read it the first time I tried this cocktail a few weeks ago and was thinking about it this evening when I wanted an easy and comforting drink for unwinding after work. I really should make myself a list of around the housers too.
24th August 2024 at 13:03
By "bijou serve", do you mean small and elegant?
29th August 2024 at 05:42
Yup, that's what I was trying to convey. Perhaps I should have said "small and elegant"?
20th August 2024 at 01:34
So much flavor from a simple, equal parts cocktail! Quite sweet, with cinnamon-spice notes. Excellent!
23rd March 2024 at 13:42
A perfect little cocktail. The Internet sweetness and fruitiness of the sloe gin is opened and balanced by the herbal and drying characteristics of the vermouths. Beautiful! I served in a mini martini glass xx
23rd March 2024 at 14:01
Intense, not Internet 🙄
31st December 2023 at 22:44
Very vermouth forward. Not unpleasant but I think I would double the gin next time - probably perfection for me then.
2nd May 2022 at 00:18
This is a lovely, soft sip. Not too boozy, just a hint of sweetness.
26th February 2022 at 21:33
This was very mellow and vermouth-forward (which will suit some drinkers, like my husband, perfectly!) For my part, I missed some of the punchiness / bite of gin. I’m going to try adding in some additional London Dry next time to try to sharpen it up :)