Hipster Gin (Rosehips in Gin)

I've walked roads and lane ways looking for sloes this year to make sloe gin, but haven't found any. I have an old fashioned, wild rose bush (Rosa canina), well actually it's more like a tree, at the back door and it's dripping with rose hips.

I searched the web for ideas and found a recipe for rose hips in vodka.

This is adapted from it.

All you need is an empty litre bottle, a funnel, approximately two thirds of a 75cl bottle of gin (enough left over for a few G&Ts), 50g sugar and 500g rose hips.

Top and tail 500g of hips and rinse them under running water. Dry them off on kitchen paper.

Push the rose hips into the clean, sterilised bottle. Pour in the sugar using a funnel. You will have to make sure it's dry and keep tapping it to make it flow. Finally add enough gin to cover the fruit. Seal the bottle and leave for a month.

After a month strain the liquid off and transfer into another clean, sterilised bottle.

Leave for at least two months to mature.

Should be ready on time for Christmas - a perfect Hipster Gin.


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