Build all ingredients in a large wine glass with cubed ice and mix well. Garnish with mint and an orange slice. Why has this happened? Well, craft gin is relatively easy to make meaning an awful lot of distilleries have popped up not just here in the UK but globally. Now with a huge line of products, Spirit of Harrogate is best known for its fantastic, flavoured Gins. These aren’t your regular Gins though. Each bottle uses water drawn straight from the Harrogate springs that William Slingsby discovered 400 years ago.

Clipstone Park Distillery

Centuries later the estate was sold to Royal supporters, most notably the Dukes of Portland and the Countess of Oxford, who ran it as a farmed estate and their own sporting retreat, hosting royals and aristocrats from all over Europe. This continued into the mid 20th century, when it was auctioned off to local tenants and farmers alike in 1945. With our craft production system, we are able to blend and bottle a variety of liqueur products for both ourselves and third parties. If you have a product you would like us to manufacture and bottle for you, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Walk into any supermarket and you will be greeted with a huge array of different colours and flavours from all over the world. Red ones are definitely sweeter than the green ones and you might want to take this into consideration when adding sugar to the gin.Using a funnel, add the fruit mush to a clean bottle/jar so that the mix is about half way up the container. One is to make 5 gallons (IMP) of pineapple wine. The required pineapples were trimmed and sliced over a couple of weeks and are waiting in the deep freeze for a free fermenter. Later today I shall use a newly fresh pineapple to start off a “Pineapple Liqueur” using brandy this year as opposed to Vodka I am not giving you the amount in cups as gooseberries can vary very much in size, some are really small, some are huge.

How to Make Gooseberry Gin - Where Is My Spoon

Refreshingly different. Tastes very strongly of gooseberries. Like a chewy gooseberry jam, yet not sweet. I always wash all the gooseberries after topping and tailing and then freeze them for a least a week before I use them. Hello! Where Is My Spoon is a blog where you will find delicious and family friendly recipes, all made from scratch. From simple healthy soups to sumptuous cakes for special occasions, all our recipes have been tried and loved by our family and our friends. There has been no summer so far this year in England. May, June and so far in July has been the wettest time since records were started over a hundred years ago. In fact it is raining right now as though it hasn’t rained for a month — simply tippling it down. Elderflower is synonymous with a sunny British picnic, so why not elevate it with the addition of Slingsby Gin. Share it with your friends and family and watch their faces light up inthe afternoon sun.We have added the optional addition of a little sugar in the recipe below to help counterbalance the tartness of the gooseberries, although this is not strictly necessary. The best of these red varieties is called “Whinham’s Industry”, which sounds eminently Victorian and North of England and probably is.) And that leads us onto our good friends at The Spirit of Harrogate, who have developed some amazing, flavoured Slingsby Gins.