Name: Sloe Gin Fizz
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 30 ml Lemon juice; 1 barspoon Powdered sugar; 120 ml Brut sparkling wine

Sloe Gin Fizz
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Serve in a Highball (max 10oz/300ml)

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin
1 oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1 barspoon	Powdered sugar (white sugar ground in mortar and pestle) or use 5ml of 2:1 sugar syrup per spoon
4 oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Highball (max 10oz/300ml) glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon slice wheel.
SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass. (No ice in the glass.)
TOP with sparkling wine (or soda if you're cheap). Some like to add egg white to enhance foam. (The drink photographed here is without egg white and we prefer without.)
Garnish with lemon slice on rim.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

With the right brand of sloe gin and champagne, this citrusy berry cocktail is just on the dry/tart side of balanced (add more sugar or choose your sloe gin according to taste). Obviously, when made with soda rather than sparkling wine this is a quite different but still tasty cocktail. There is no need to add egg white, and its addition detracts from this cocktail.

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History:

"Its haunting pink color and fruity opulence are topped with a handsome collar of natural foam which, if the sloe gin be of first quality, is gladsome aplenty." We have David Wondrich to thank for uncovering this quote about the Sloe Gin Fizz by Lawton Mackall in the August 1941 issue of Esquire.

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Frank Bartholomew

21st January at 01:39

Been serving with soda and both sloe & Plymouth gins along with egg white. Tried this recipe with only sloe gin, champagne and no egg white. My folks say NEVER go back. This is it!

Yuting Jiang

20th June 2024 at 03:19

30 sip smith sloe gin + 30 dry gin + 15 lemon juice + 3-5 syrup + soda water

Sean Baron

25th August 2023 at 19:23

Why isn’t this called Slow French 75?

Calvin Grant

17th January 2023 at 04:34

Made this again with prosecco , this time with lime juice. excellent.

Calvin Grant

20th July 2022 at 01:51

I'd like to think I'm any thing but cheap but I didn't know there was a better way to make a sloe gin fizz than with soda. Consider me among the converted. Spreading the word. Also, tried with prosecco. Preferred brut.

John Hinojos

5th June 2021 at 20:10

This was a great addition to our brunch today. The cocktail is a bit on the sour side, so you may want to increase the sugar. I like sour drinks and this was perfect as written.

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