Botanicals, etc.

Also known as "Englishman's grape". Dried elderberries are used as a wine flavoring to add color, tannin and complexity.

Brewers Garden Bitter Orange Peel

Also called Curacao orange peel these green-gray peels are one of the most popular specialty herbs on the market. They are used commercially by domestic brewers to duplicate the beer styles that put Belgium on the brewing map. 

While a cousin to the Florida orange, this sweet variety will not give your beer a metallic taste like the domestic version. 

If you're familiar with the taste of Cointreau or Grand Marnier then you will be thrilled with the flavor that sweet orange peel can add to your Belgian style strong ales and special holiday brews.

Elderflowers can be used on their own for making wine or can be added to Elderberry wine to enhance flavor. On their own, they produce a wine compared to a muscatel.

Hot elderflower tea, like chamomile, can make a soothing nightcap and is said to offer natural relief for the common cold.

Juniper berries have a strong pine-like, resinous flavor that is slightly bitter, however, as they mature their flavor becomes fresher with notes of citrus. When crushed their pungent aroma is cedar like.

Juniper berries are a very strong spice and should be added to beers very sparingly, sometimes just a few crushed berries is enough to impart a distinct juniper flavor. 

Spruce tips from Spruce on Tap: sustainably wild-harvested, immediately vacuum-packed and frozen. Use spruce tips for brewing, tea making, culinary, herbal and countless other uses. Bright spruce flavor with slight mint, pine, melon, and citrus notes.