UK Gluten Free Beers

How is gluten free beer made?¹

There are currently two ways to manufacture gluten free beer. The first is to use a malt from naturally gluten free cereals or pseudocereals such as sorghum, millet, buckwheat, rice, quinoa, or maize. These beers often have slightly different aromas and flavours to regular beer.

The second method is to produce a beer using a gluten containing malt (wheat, barley or rye), and then introduce a process to reduce the gluten content so that it complies with the law on gluten free and contains 20 ppm or less of gluten. One way of doing this is to use an enzyme at the start of the fermentation process to break down the gluten protein. These type of beers have been made from barley, so by law the labelling must also state 'contains barley'. This allows people to identify gluten free beers made from barley separate to gluten free beers made from naturally gluten free cereals or pseudocereals.

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^{1. www.coeliac.org.uk/frequently-asked-questions/gfbeer/
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