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A but late but, some comments on the thread. The Finnish beer that claims to be gluten free cannot be labelled as gluten free in Australia. The problems is that it will not be gluten free, the currently used test does not detect gluten from barley malt properly. If you are looking for...

Gerard, Its really nice to consider Gluten free beer, but you can't make an all grain gluten free bee using just an infusion mash. The gelatinisation temperature of the gluten free grains is about 75C, so with an infusion mash, you either extract bugger all from your malt, or kill off all your...

Just to let you know that in the beerfest this year, there were 5 gluten free beers entered, brewed by Andrew, and me. Andrew got the best score of 124 for his Gluten Free Wit which is quite esceptional. My best beer, the Raspberry Ale got 107 which I was vey pleased with. Just goes to show...

Looks like I left a bit of the specs out. The iidea is to brew something like an Australian Pale Ale. What you are talkig about would end up like a Belgian Wit - which you can do very well with gluten free beer. I will edit the specs Robert, the gluten free brewer

Normakl cleaning proecdures should be good enough, except that beer stone should be removed from mash tuns and kettles, malt mills must be cleaned very carefully, and wooden mash paddles that have been used for normal beer should be avoided. Flaked rice is fine,. What other non grain adjuncts...

About 1% of the population has Coeliac Disease, there are no drugs etc to cure it, they must avoid anything made from wheat, barely, oats and rye. This means normal beer must be avoided. Surprisingly enough, some people are not that happy with this. The solution is gluten free beer. Robert...

The only gluten free extracts that I know of are corn syrup (if it is actually made from maize) and rice syrup (not all rice syrups are gluten free). The rice syrup is excluded, the corn (maize) syrup is allowed as it is a maize based sugar. Robert, the gluten free brewer

Hi brewers one and all, One of the difficulties facing gluten free brewers is that it is difficult entering gluten free beers in a competition - gluten free beers are always out of style except for the experimental category, and judges really don't know what a gluten free beer should or could...

Brewing a decent gluten free beer is can be done. The main problem has been finding information on how to do it, and finding the ingredients. Information on malting gluten free grains, and brewing gluten free beer will be available on the OZ Craftbrewers website soon. In the meantime, a...