Saturday, March 21, 2009

New Style: Gluten Free Beer




Commerical Gluten Free Beer



The most common Gluten Free (GF) beers available domestically are extract-based using Sorghum. I've included a picture of some of the bottles.



The plan as discussed at the March meeting is to develop a new style for the BJCP Style Guidelines. However, first I would like to characterize some of the commerically available brands with the help of the club members. I will be posting progress on this blog under the topic "Gluten Free Beer".



As an example a new category could be:



XX. Gluten Free Beer.


XXa. American Sorghum Ale GF.


Commerical examples:


AB Redbridge, Bards, New Grist


XXb. Belgium Sorghum GF.


Commerical examples:


Greens


XXc. Light Ale GF.


Commerical examples:


La Messagier




During one of our meetings I will also give a presentation on ingredients that are acceptable for Gluten Free beer. Hopefully I can also set up a tasting.



Please feel free to comment.

Harold



1 comment:

Nom DePlume said...

hi harold -

have you considered using gluten-free base-grains other than sorghum?

these will make for some interesting brews!