Review

The House of Bruar
Original Sloe Gin

The House of Bruar, Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland, UK.

The House Of Bruar. 

The House of Bruar is a prestigious independent country-clothing store, with a broad spectrum of high quality clothes and accessories including Scottish knitwear, and is known as the “Harrods of the Highlands”. The company was founded by Mark & Linda Birbeck in the 1990’s and was sold in 2012 to Mark Birbeck & Sons Ltd, with the new owner Patrick Birkbeck, the son of the founders, as Managing Director.

The locally sourced and hand picked sloeberries are infused with an undisclosed London Dry Gin, made to a personalized recipe. It is made and bottled locally and we suspect (although not confirmed) this is by the Scottish Liqueur Centre, also based in Perthshire.

The red colored Gin is presented in a round clear glass bottle with some unusual features: a soft square foot with a lip, slightly tapering from the bottom (thinner) to the shoulders (wider), the shoulders are curved with a slightly bulbous neck. The bottle sports an off white rectangular label with navy blue and gold colored text plus an image of a sprig of hawthorn with sloeberries.

Flavored Gin - Sloe.

26.5% (53 Proof).

$$$ - $$$$. Not available in the USA as it is sold exclusively at The House of Bruar Store in Scotland. It may be purchased online from their website but posting and shipping is only available within the UK. 

Unknown but includes juniper berries and sloberries.

Named after the nearby Bruar gorge and falls (and the key ingredient in the Gin, Sloeberries).

Unfortunately we have yet to sample this Gin and therefore have no details to describe its taste, not even from the producers or any other Gin reviewers!

Unknown.