What device to remove pulp from sloe gin

I've made my sloe gin and like the taste, now I want to strain off the berries and residue to leave a clear product that wont keep getting a stronger flavour.

There are all sorts of filters and strainers available. I've seen coffee filters and muslin cloth. I'm not looking for specific product recommendations, but to know what class of product is ideal for leaving a crystal clear gin.

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Best Answer

I think following should do:

first: coars filter to get out the big stuff
second: coffee filter to remove the finer stuff
optional: you could leave the gin standing for a few days in cold, this should cause the remaining sludge to settle. Then siphone off the clear part with a food safe tube into the bottles.

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What can I use to filter sloe gin?

If your sloe gin is a little murky it is possible to filter out the offending particles using filter paper placed in a funnel. Buy some good-quality wine filter papers (coffee filter paper does not work) and fold them repeatedly to form a pleated cone.

How do you drain sloe gin?

Line a plastic sieve with a square of muslin set over a bowl and strain the sloe gin through it. Decant into clean, dry bottles, then seal and label. The sloe gin is now ready to drink but it'll improve and mature over time \u2013 so, if possible, make it one year to drink the next.

Do you need to filter sloe gin?

While soaking, sloes release quite a lot of sediment, so before doing anything with the sloe-infused gin, you typically need to filter it. We usually do this twice, first catching the sloes in a sieve, then pouring the liquid through a finer filter like cheese-cloth, coffee filters or anything similar.

How do you strain gin?

For the Gin, I strain it with a paper coffee filter in a kitchen funnel so that the fruit particles are removed. This can be done using muslin or a clean J-cloth, but a coffee filter works much better \u2013 provided you are patient. I had to wait a few hours for my Gin to pass through it.

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