Thanks to the magic of the interweb, we have gotten our hands on a bottle of Plymouth Sloe Gin, which is not yet available in Texas.

I have to interject something here about an interesting, if uncreative, fellow that I met at Savers house of thrift last week. I was purchasing this vintage cocktail shaker with classic drink recipes on it and he says, "They don't have Sloe Gin--that's my favorite drink!" I was excited to meet a sloe gin afficionado, and explained my adventure with the bottle of Plymouth. I asked him what he liked to do with it. "I like to drink it!" he said enthusiastically. I meant that I wondered what he liked to to mix with it. "I don't mix it with nothin'! I just drink it." At that I wondered why he needed a recipe on the side of a cocktail shaker...

Today I decided to make a Sloe Gin Fizz from the Dale: equal parts gin and sloe gin, with lemon juice and simple syrup.