Flavourings for beer brewing

Whether you are making home brew or you're an established brewery requiring commercial quantities, Universal flavours has what you need to create a truly unique flavour to your beer.

We have over 800 flavours to choose from!

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When to use BEER FLAVOURING CONCENTRATES?

Adding flavourings works very differently from adding fresh fruits, herbs, or spices. Unlike those ingredients, flavourings don’t contain any sugar, so there’s no benefit to adding them before fermentation. You also don’t need to go through the process of extracting flavours — that step is completely replaced by simply adding the flavouring at the end. This means there’s no need to boil, steep, or perform a “dry hop” style ethanol extraction during the later stages of fermentation.

The ideal time to add flavour extracts is right at packaging, whether that’s in the bottling bucket or directly into the keg. This approach also makes recipe adjustments a breeze, allowing you to tweak and perfect your blend without having to redo the entire fermentation process.

How much flavouring to use

The amount you use will differ between flavours and vary according to the type of beer and ingredients in your brewing process. As a guide, start with 0.5ml to 1ml of flavour per litre of beer and adjust to taste.

flavour concentrates for home brew and beer breweries

Flavour Consistency & Stability 

These professional flavours are created to impart accurate tastes to your beers/seltzers. Whilst using some raw materials like fruits, berries or spices can prove unpredictable, flavourings/flavour extracts are extremely stable and provide consistent taste profiles.

 Usually the best types of flavouring for beer are “water soluble” flavourings. Carriers such as ethanol or Propylene Glycol are commonly used in such flavourings.