Monkey 47 Schwarzwald Sloe Gin

Created 60 years ago, Monkey 47 takes its name from its composition: 47 handpicked plant ingredients prepared in a soft spring water from the Black Forest.

Wing commander Montgomery “Monty” Colins was posted in Berlin after World War II and became devoted to the rebuilding of its Zoo, through which he came to sponsor an egret monkey by the name of Max. He then moved to the northern Black Forest region where he opened a country guesthouse, “The Wild Monkey”. Nostalgic of British long-standing traditions, chief among them a good glass of gin, he developed a natural and regional basis recipe of Black Forest gin : juniper, pure spring water and a variety of special herbal ingredients.

Taking the award winning combination of 47 botanicals that makes up the Schwarzwald Dry Gin, Schwarzwald Sloe Gin uses handpicked Sloe berries which are macerated to achieve that distinctive Sloe Gin flavour and then water is added prior to bottling to bring the alcohol content down to 29%.