Should I just throw the sloes away?

[stella]

Just finished the first bottle of sloe gin, really lush. I have 1/2 a bottle of soaked sloes left in the bottle can I use them for anything? Seems a waste just to throw them out

[zazen999]

I made damson gin and have saved the damsons [I actually used them for a second brew]; I used the first 1/3 of them in damson and chocolate flapjacks which we polished off today.

[stella]

Mmmm I was thinking along those lines but Damsons are edible dont think sloes are very tasty are they?

[Jeanied]

I made sloe and apple jelly this year, Stella - using cooking apples and ordinary sloes. I reckon the gin flavoured ones would work just as well.
I also froze some sloes last year - and forgot to label the bag. So I defrosted them thinking they were frozen blueberries. It took a bite of one to prove to me it was no blueberry - it had a tooth jarring stone in the middle. However it was not bitter at all.

[Two_Sheds]

I've frozen the sloes out of my sloe gin, and will add them to my next batch of homemade wine (elderberry)

[Flummery]

I tried scraping off the flesh and adding it to melted chocolate one year. Would have been better with damsons!

[Mell]

I've frozen the sloes out of my sloe gin, and will add them to my next batch of homemade wine (elderberry)

frozen elderberries as well ?

[shirlthegirl43]

My sloe gin still smells of sulphur it tastes nice enough if you hold your breath though

[stella]

Sulphur.....why? how strange, mine is like an tipsy ribena drink very lush. Have used the sloes in 2 jars of compost jam

[shirlthegirl43]

I am unsure if it is coz I have a rubber bung in it but can't think why that would affect it.

Hey ho, I have damsons (or bullaces) in the freezer so may have another go with those.

[Mell]

Did you chemicall sterilize the bottle ?

[shirlthegirl43]

I used Milton the same as I do for all my brewing.

[Mell]

That shouldn't do it I've known campden or sodium metabisulfite cause suphur smell.

Does the smell go if you have it in the glass for a while ?

[shirlthegirl43]

I don't know, I thought maybe it wasn't ready so we haven't tried it much and haven't left any in the glass for any time. Will try later.

[wellie]

I like Jeanied's Sloe Gin & Apple Jelly idea rather quite a lot, and will prolly play around with my Whisky Sloes in a similar vein once they've finished 'mashing', so thanks for that tip.