The Beast Mini Blender Plus is a personal blender meant for smoothies and other single-serve drinks. It's a smaller, lighter version of the Beast Health Blender with the same modern-looking design. Unlike that blender, all variants of the Mini come with at least one reusable straw and drinking lid.
Our Verdict
The Beast Mini Blender is okay for multi-purpose use. It's well-built, easy to clean, and comes with dishwasher-safe components. It's good for smoothies since it quickly makes a smooth blend with fibrous ingredients like fruit and kale. It can also process thicker mixtures like nut butter, although you have to stop and stir or shake the jar, so it's not the easiest to use for that purpose. Unfortunately, it struggles to crush small batches of ice, so if you make ice for cocktails, it'll have unprocessed chunks left over.
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Fantastic for processing fibrous ingredients.
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Excellent build quality.
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Struggles to crush ice.
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21.6oz maximum capacity.
The Beast Mini Blender is great for single-serve smoothies. Since it's a personal blender, it's meant for making smoothies and other drinks. All three of its jars are a good size for smoothies, and it comes with a drinking lid and straw so you can bring a drink on the go. It smoothly blends common smoothie ingredients like leafy greens and fruit. However, some blenders, like the original Beast Health Blender, make a smoother blend.
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Fantastic for processing fibrous ingredients.
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Personal jars and drinking lid included.
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Excellent build quality.
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Struggles to crush ice.
The Beast Mini Blender is a decent option for multiple servings of smoothies. It's a personal blender, and its biggest jar holds about 22oz, so you might need to work in batches, depending on how many smoothies you're making. However, it makes a mostly smooth blend with fibrous ingredients like kale and fruit in just a few minutes. It comes with at least one additional jar, making it easier to make a couple of smoothies. However, the Beast Health Blender makes an even smoother blend and has a bigger 34oz maximum capacity.
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Fantastic for processing fibrous ingredients.
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Excellent build quality.
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Struggles to crush ice.
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21.6oz maximum capacity.
The Beast Mini Blender isn't a good ice crusher. Even if you use smaller batches of three or four ice cubes, it struggles to crush all of them, so you end up with crushed ice with unprocessed chunks left over.
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Excellent build quality.
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Struggles to crush ice.
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21.6oz maximum capacity.
You can't use the Beast Mini Blender for hot blending, so it's not really suitable for soups. However, if you want to blend room temperature ingredients for a soup recipe, it makes a mostly smooth blend with fibrous vegetables like kale or broccoli. However, the biggest jar's 22oz capacity likely won't fit an entire soup recipe in one batch.
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Excellent build quality.
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Can't hot blend.
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21.6oz maximum capacity.
The Beast Mini Blender isn't good for professional use. Since it's a personal blender, its biggest jar has a relatively small 22oz capacity, so it's not ideal for serving a crowd. It's not the easiest to use for tougher blending tasks—thick recipes like nut butter require some stirring or shaking, and it has a hard time completely crushing small batches of ice cubes. It can also overheat if you run several cycles in a row. However, it makes a mostly smooth blend with fibrous ingredients like kale. It's well-built and quiet for a blender.
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Excellent build quality.
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Can't hot blend.
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21.6oz maximum capacity.
- 6.7 Multi-Purpose
- 8.4 Smoothies (Single Serving)
- 7.3 Smoothies (Multiple Servings)
- 4.7 Ice Crushing
- 3.4 Soups
- 5.7 Professional Use
- Updated Jul 22, 2024: Added a note that the Beautiful Personal Blender also comes with a straw lid in our Lid section.
- Updated Feb 28, 2024: Review published.
- Updated Feb 23, 2024: Early access published.
- Updated Feb 20, 2024: Our testers have started testing this product.
- Updated Jan 26, 2024: The product has arrived in our lab, and our testers will start evaluating it soon.
- Updated Jan 15, 2024: We've purchased the product and are waiting for it to arrive in our lab.
Differences Between Sizes And Variants
This blender comes in several colors: 'Mist,' 'Terra,' 'Sand,' 'Carbon Black,' and 'Cloud White.' We tested the Beast Mini Blender 'Plus' variant in 'Mist,' which comes with three jars. You can see the label for the unit we tested here. There's another variant, the Beast Mini Blender, that only comes with the motor base, the 21.6oz (640mL) main jar, a storage lid, and a drinking lid with a straw. We expect our results to be valid for that variant as well.
If you encounter another variant, let us know in the forums, and we'll update our review.
Compared To Other Blenders
The Beast Mini Blender is a personal blender. It's a smaller version of the Beast Health Blender and doesn't perform quite as well overall. However, like the original Beast and other personal blenders like the Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO and NutriBullet 900, it's fantastic for blending common smoothie ingredients like kale and fruits. It has a sleeker, more modern-looking design that you might prefer. It also comes with a straw and a lid with a hole for the straw, which is different from most personal blenders, which usually come with drinking lids with flip-open spouts. Like the Beast Health Blender, it's quieter than many personal blenders.
If you're looking for a recommendation, check out the best personal blenders, the best bullet blenders, and the best blenders for smoothies.
The Beast Health Blender has a better blending performance than its smaller version, the Beast Mini Blender Plus. While the blenders look identical except for size, the Beast Health has a more powerful motor and bigger jars. It makes a smoother blend with fibrous ingredients and struggles much less with difficult blending jobs like making nut butter or crushing ice. That said, you might prefer the Mini if you want a smaller option, as it still does a fantastic job blending common smoothie ingredients like fruit or leafy greens.
You might prefer either the nutribullet Ultra or the Beast Mini Blender Plus. They're both personal blenders that are mainly intended for single-serve smoothies, and they both do a fantastic job of blending common ingredients like leafy greens and fruit. The nutribullet is easier to use for recipes like nut butter since you don't have to remove the lid to stir the recipe. However, it's not meant for crushing ice. The Beast can crush ice in the jar without liquid, but it can't handle many ice cubes at once and leaves unprocessed chunks, so it's not ideal for crushing ice. You might prefer it if you want a quieter blender or a more premium build quality.
The Beast Mini Blender is better than the Ninja Nutri Ninja Pro for most purposes. The Beast has a better build quality and makes a smoother blend with fibrous ingredients like leafy greens. It's also easier to use for thicker recipes like nut butter. It makes less noise when it's running. However, if you want to make crushed ice for cocktails or blended drinks like slushies, the Ninja does a much better job of crushing ice cubes.
The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO has a better blending performance than the Beast Mini Blender Plus. It makes a smoother blend with fibrous ingredients, and it's much easier to use for making nut butter and crushing ice. You might prefer its controls, which include a countdown timer so you know how much time is left in a blending cycle. However, the Beast performs similarly when blending common smoothie ingredients like kale or fruit. It's much quieter when running and has a sleeker design that you might prefer (or not).
Test Results
The Beast Mini Blender Plus is a small personal blender. It's a smaller, lighter version of the Beast Health Blender, and it's around the same size as the NutriBullet Pro 900.
It has an excellent build quality. The gears on the base and jar are made of metal, which is more durable than plastic. The grips and lids for the blending jars are made of grippy rubber. The bottom of the motor base also has rubber feet to keep it from moving around on your counter. All the components are easy to assemble, and the jar locks into place on the motor body. The lids are also interchangeable, so they each fit on any jar.
The main jar holds just under 22oz. Since it's the 'Plus' variant, it comes with a 529mL (17.9oz) jar and a smaller 14oz (415mL) jar. The basic Beast Mini Blender variant only comes with the 21.6oz jar. All the jars are a good size for single-serve smoothies.
All of the jars have the same ribbed plastic design. They're a bit wider than typical personal blender jars. The inside of the jars isn't ribbed in the same way, which makes cleaning a bit easier. The jars and lids are all dishwasher-safe.
There's one blade assembly that twists onto any of the jars like a lid. The assembly has a different design than the original Beast Health Blenders: it has four blades angled in different directions instead of six. A greater number of blades can help with grinding ingredients like nuts, although a blender's performance also depends on factors like jar shape and motor power. The assembly is dishwasher-safe, along with the lids and jars.
It comes with a variety of lids. The blade assembly twists onto the jars like a lid, and then you flip the jar over to put it on the motor base. There are also three lids you can use once you're done blending: a lid with a handle to help with carrying the jar around, lid with a hole for a straw (the straw is included), and a couple of flat lids for simple storage. All of the lids fit on any of the jars. A straw lid is a relatively rare feature for a personal blender, but the Beautiful Personal Blender is another option with one included.
The cord is long enough to reach a nearby outlet. However, there's no place to wrap it up or store it when it's not in use.
- Beast Mini Blender motor base
- 21.6oz jar
- 17.9oz jar
- 14oz jar
- 2x straws
- Drinking lid and carry cap
- 2x storage lid
- Blade assembly
- Straw cleaning brush
- Blade cleaning brush
- Manuals
It's fantastic for small batches of fibrous ingredients. Pressing the button on the front of the motor base for at least one second starts a one-minute cycle. The blender automatically slows down the speed a few times during the cycle. This is to allow the ingredients to settle around the blades and is meant to help it blend more efficiently. After one minute of blending, it makes an almost perfectly smooth blend with difficult fibrous ingredients like kale. You could also run it for another cycle to eliminate the last few visible specks.
It's fantastic for processing fibrous ingredients at full capacity. Unlike with smaller batches, running a single one-minute cycle results in a fairly grainy blend. However, running a second cycle makes a virtually perfectly smooth blend with ingredients like kale.
It's not a good ice crusher. If you use four ice cubes at once and run a regular blending cycle, it quickly forms a ring of ice around the blades and stops processing the ice cubes further. You can use pulse mode with better results, but it still doesn't do a very good job. You have to stop the blender often and either shake the jar or remove the blades and use a spatula to dislodge any ice stuck away from the blades. This is tiring, and even after nearly 10 minutes (or three minutes per batch), there are plenty of chunks and unprocessed ice cubes left over.
The results are better if you use three ice cubes at once. It's still a tedious process since you must continuously press the pulse button for nearly three minutes per batch, but it does a better job of crushing a smaller amount of ice at once. You can see the process and results with three ice cubes at once in this video and photo.
It's good for making nut butter. Unlike many personal blenders, you can add a 'full batch' of 2 cups of nut butter. Running four one-minute cycles, stopping between each to shake the jar or scrape the sides with a spatula, makes very smooth, spreadable nut butter. There are a few small grains left over, so it's not perfectly smooth, and it's less creamy than nut butter made in the Beast Health Blender. The process is more difficult since, with the bigger, more powerful Beast Health Blender, you don't have to stop and stir or shake the jar. You could run another blending cycle for better consistency, but the blender's heat sensor blocked us from starting a fifth cycle. The manual says when the heat sensor is triggered, unplug the blender and let it sit for an hour before using it again.
Since processing thicker mixtures can cause the blender to overheat after a few cycles, you might want to use smaller batches of ingredients or let the blender cool down for longer between cycles.
It's quiet for a personal blender. While all blenders are pretty loud, it's not as irritating as the NutriBullet Pro 900 or Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO, which is a plus if you like early-morning smoothies or make recipes that need several minutes of blending.
It has only one blending speed. It's quite fast, which can be a downside for some recipes since you can't start at a lower blending speed to avoid over-blending.
The blender has one main control button on the front of the motor base. Pressing rapidly (for less than one second) pulses the blender, while a longer press (at least one second) starts a one-minute blending cycle. During the one minute cycle, the blender seems to run at maximum speed for 20 seconds, slow down briefly, and then repeat the process before shutting off automatically. However, you can't manually adjust the blend speed. There's also a orange power button on the back of the blender that has to be set to 'on' before the blender will start.
It's easy to clean by hand, although its design means you'll probably have to use a brush to reach all the way into the jar, since the opening may be too small to fit your hand into. If you're working with sticky ingredients, you have to scrub the jar walls and blades, but overall, it's a quick and easy process.