My hop head newly gluten free wife has requested for me to brew a gluten free IPA. I would prefer an all grain recipe. I know there are plenty out on the web, but is there one that doesn’t suck? I have yet to try a gluten free beer that measures up to the non-gluten free varieties.
Does she have celiac disease or gluten intolerant. Makes a difference. I think you have to make rice beer and hop the hell out of it if you want no gluten. Someone wants me to make one but haven’t gotten to it. I had something in my head with rice malt and maybe some Asian sweet rice or flaked rice for some body. Lotta hops
Don’t forget corn is gluten free. So, you could just make a macroAmerican lager with lots of corn and rice, and hop the heck out of it. Might have to use some amylase enzyme to make up for the lack of diastatic malt.
If you can find it, Uinta brewing company makes a surprisingly good gluten-free IPA. I don’t know how widely distributed they are, but with as lacking as gluten-free beers tend to be, this is one that I’d drink over a lot of other IPAs. Might be a starting point?
Bump to this thread. I was considering making a Gluten Free beer for a friend. My LHBS doesn’t carry Sorgum because that cannot sell it they say. I hear it doesn’t taste that great anyway. I would just use the ClarityFirm and be done with it but I really would love to get as close to gluten free without it.
So that would leave the following grains.