Here's Thomas Mario, Playboy Magazine's food and drink editor, fucking up the basics of sloe gin in 1954.

Sloe gin is made by macerating already distilled gin with sloe berries and adding sugar (or syrup).

If you distilled the gin with the sloes as Mario describes you'd lose all the colour and some of the flavour.

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