Beer Botanicals
To make every brew taste great, you need the right ingredients. An increasing number of breweries and microbreweries are turning to nature to create unique, thirst-quenching flavour profiles. From warming and sweet spices to delicate floral and fruit notes, Mimea has all the beer botanicals you need to elevate your recipes.
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What are the Best Beer Botanicals?
Explore our popular beer botanicals below—ideal for brewing alcoholic beverages, including IPAs, ales, lagers, stouts, fruit beers and more.
Nettle (Urtica dioica): In its raw plant form, nettle has thousands of tiny hairs that sting when touched. However, it is also nutritious, with a high vitamin C content. Dried nettle herb offers a light, mellow taste. Brewing with nettles can even be a thirst-quencher, offering a cider-like consistency.
Juniper berries (Juniperus communis): The berries of the juniper tree resemble black peppercorns and add a punchy taste sensation. This quintessential gin ingredient can also be added to beers for a refreshing, bitter flavour that emulates the taste of gin.
Lemon peel (Citrus limon): Craft beers often use the zesty flavours of lemon to create a tongue-tingling, refreshing, summery taste profile.
Chamomile (Matricaria): Originating from Western Asia, this flower offers a pleasant apple-like aroma. Chamomile tea may be a firm favourite for relaxing with a caff-free cuppa before bed, but it can also add a light floral note to beer. It’s not to be overused, but as a background flavour, it adds a crisp, slightly citrus flavour that’s ideal for a craft brew. It pairs well with other citrus ingredients, including orange, grapefruit and lemon peel.
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis): This fragrant herb is a popular addition for potato-based dishes and is also becoming an experimental—yet tasty—addition for IPAs. Part of the mint family, rosemary is native to the sunny climate of the Mediterranean, including Portugal and Spain. Why not capture the taste of the Mediterranean with the rich aroma and pungent pine-like taste of rosemary in your next beer?
Lavender (Lavandula): Synonymous with the Provence area of France, lavender also grows across Europe and even in the UK. Lavender adds a subtle, floral aroma and taste.
Fenugreek seeds (Trigonella foenum-graecum): Popular in Indian cuisine, fenugreek seeds are often added to curry powders and chutneys. This might not immediately stand out as an enticing flavour for beer. However, when roasted, fenugreek tastes like burnt sugar—ideal for adding a naturally-derived caramelised flavour to beers.
Grains of paradise (Aframomum melegueta): Popular in Belgian-style ales, grains of paradise pack punchy, peppery notes with hints of ginger. In their raw form, they are dark-brown berries that release their spicy notes when ground.
Elderflowers (Sambucus nigra): Growing across the UK and Europe, elderflowers offer a slightly tangy floral, fruity taste profile. It’s a refreshing flavour for the spring-summer season.
Peppermint (Mentha piperita): A cross between water mint and spearmint, peppermint is indigenous to Europe and the Middle East. In brewing, it offers a refreshing, cooling taste, popularised by the classic mojito cocktail.
Heather (Calluna vulgaris): Sourced from an evergreen shrub, the heather herb predominantly grows in moorland across Europe. It’s closely associated with Scotland, getting its name from the Scottish term haeddre, meaning heathland. Its raw form offers a pleasant mix of earthy and floral notes.
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Make every sip count with Mimea.
Find all the dried botanicals you need in one place. We strive to provide great customer service with every order, taking great care and pride in the products we supply. We know and trust our suppliers, and, by extension, our customers trust us too. With over 140 years of sourcing and supplying beer botanicals, we’ve created a reliable service offering for our customers. Most of our products can be delivered within 2–3 working days.
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