Learn how to make my favorite sloe gin fizz cocktail in minutes with sloe gin, lemon juice, and club soda. This pretty pink cocktail is incredibly delicious and so refreshing!
If you already love the classic gin fizz, then you’ll really love this sloe gin fizz. Sloe gin is a liqueur made by infusing gin with sloe berries, which makes it pink, fruity, tart, and delicious.
I love this simple sloe gin fizz cocktail recipe. It’s refreshing and delightfully balances sweet against tart. For more fizzes, try my rosemary gin fizz!
Key Ingredients
- Sloe Gin: Sloe gin is a popular drink originating in England. It is made from sloe berries (small wild berries found across England). While they do not taste great alone, soaking these berries in gin and sugar transforms them into a flavorful liqueur. You can find two varieties of sloe gin in the US. First, there are higher-quality bottles made by soaking sloe berries in high-quality gin. Examples include Plymouth and Bitter Truth. Second, there more inexpensive, lower-proof sloe gin made with a neutral grain spirit instead of gin. This liqueur requires adding regular gin to your cocktails for better flavor. I’ve included tips for both kinds of sloe gin in the recipe below.
- Gin (Optional): Depending on the kind of sloe gin you have, you may need to add gin in addition to the sloe gin. I choose a mid-to-high-shelf gin. A London dry gin (such as Beefeater) or Plymouth gin works well. London dry gins are more straightforward in flavor, while Plymouth gins are more aromatic.
- Powdered Sugar: I use a bit of sugar to balance the gin and lemon juice. Powdered sugar dissolves quickly into cocktails, which is why I’m such a fan, but you can also use homemade simple syrup.
- Lemon: Fresh lemon juice is key to making this gin cocktail taste so refreshing. I highly recommend using fresh lemon juice over bottled lemon juice but use what you have available.
- Club Soda: I love club soda in cocktails because it adds a bit of salt, enhancing the flavors of the other ingredients. You can use sparkling water or seltzer water, but they often don’t have the same salt or mineral content as club soda.
Easy Sloe Gin Fizz
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We love this pretty pink sloe gin fizz cocktail recipe. It’s super simple to make, fresh, light, and perfect for warmer weather. Sloe gin is a liqueur with an alcohol content typically ranging from 15% to 30% (proof ranging from 30 to 60). If your bottle is on the lower end, I highly recommend using a 50-50 blend of sloe gin to regular gin (1 ounce of each).
You Will Need
1 ounce (2 tablespoons) sloe gin
1 ounce (2 tablespoons) gin
1/2 ounce (1 tablespoon) fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon powdered sugar or simple syrup
3 ounces (6 tablespoons) club soda
Lemon slice for serving
Directions
1Add sloe gin, regular gin, 1/2 ounce of lemon juice and sugar (or simple syrup) to a cocktail shaker filled half way with ice.
2Shake vigorously until chilled. Taste then adjust with additional lemon or simple syrup/sugar (I usually add a bit more lemon). Shake again, and then strain cocktail into a glass filled with ice.
3Top with club soda and garnish with lemon wedge.
Adam and Joanne's Tips
- Note on sloe gin: The recipe above assumes that you are using the less expensive 30 proof variety of sloe gin (15% alcohol content). If you are using the more expensive, higher proof option, do not add additional gin, and instead increase the amount of sloe gin from 1 ounce to 2 ounces.
- The nutrition facts provided below are estimates.
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Love Love love this drink not too sweet
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This is hands down my favorite drink. I’m obsessed! I’ve tweeked the recipe some to my own liking and use equal amounts of gin, sloe gin liquor (Dekuyper’s the best), fresh squeezed lemon/lime juice, and simple syrup with a generous float of sparkling water to finish. Mmmmm. I’ve converted many of my friends as well.
Thank you Adam and Joanne!!
In the 60’s the bartender at the club I went to, used brioschi for the fizz!
I love it
Sorry to be picky, but I just wanted to mention that the 1 to 1 1/2 oz. of lemon juice would be 2 to 3 tablespoons (not 1 to 2 tablespoons.) But I liked this recipe, and the background and extra info. Thanks!
Great catch! We just fixed the recipe 🙂
My dad always used grenadine for these. From the pictures it appears that these recipes do as well.
I agree that simple syrup is simple to make. If you don’t feel like making it though you could use ginger ale instead up soda and simple syrup. I would probably still at the fresh lemon juice though. Just a tip from an ex bartender;-)
Great recipe, I like that you added the regular gin too for a little heat, most bars (including those that I work at) use cheaper, sweeter sloe gin and I always add the regular gin like your recipe called for.
One problem though… This drink is flat and textureless and borderline ‘girly’ without the addition of an egg white. It is essential for this cocktail, it’s what gives body and texture to the ‘fizz’ and is an absolute must. Skye gin fizz without egg white should not be called by the same name.
Add one egg white to the above recipe, and toss something for agitation into your shaker (the spring from your strainer is what I use) before shaking VIGOROUSLY for at least 45-60 seconds. the end result will make you never want to even touch this drink without egg white.
It looks refreshing and appetizing indeed!