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Please see a couple of Shoot Elevenses recipes below...

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Conservation - Charity Donation

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Conservation research and communities that implement sustainable wildlife management is a very important part of what we represent.

Sybarite Sporting, together with sister companies, Sybarite Safaris and Sybarite Cellars donate the sales profit of the following, to The Country Food Trust and the Big Life Foundation.

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•       Sloe & Damson Gin-Vodka

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•       Elephant Gin

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•       Tusker Lager

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History

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The England and Wales Enclosure Acts of the 17th century, in many ways was responsible for the first history of sloe gin. The Enclosure Acts transformed open common land into individual farmsteads and properties, whereby hedgerows were laid to form a natural fencing.

Blackthorn, amongst other hedging plant varieties, was and still is used today to establish hedgerows due to its dense, spiny branches. The consequences of these new hedgerows were new, bumper crops of sloe berries.

Sloes on their own are notoriously tart and astringent, and country living folk soon learned that the best way to take advantage of these berries, as with so many things in life, was to add alcohol.

It was in the later stages of the 19th century, when more established distilleries began to produce their own sloe gin, when sloe gin’s revival began. But it was the beginning of the 20th century when cocktail bartenders began to take notice - 1920s was Waldorf-Astoria in New York City use sloe gin in the Charlie Chaplin cocktail, and 1960s was the famous sloe gin cocktail The Sloe Gin Fizz popularised.

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Shoot Day Elevenses

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