Gluten and yeast free alcohol?!

BeerNut wrote: »

Not for the coeliac owner of 9 White Deer it won't.

Bear in mind that for a lot of brewers, going gluten free was just a matter of getting the certification: they didn't have to change the beer.

I wasn't talking about coeliacs when I was referring to the passing fad but the 95%+ of people who have been been pursuing gluten free diets over the last decade or so in the belief that it's healthier for them, the majority have never been tested but "know", I work with a few of them and they're a joke on a night out turning their nose up at everything but then taking bread from the basket when they think no one is looking, when I corned one her response was "oh I can have small amounts, or oh that's rye bread that's ok, (no it wouldn't be if genuine issue with gluten as rye contains it). In the last few years the number of people choosing GF has decreased and has been replaced by a shift to plant based (being vegan AND GF would be quite difficult and very restrictive). I know someone who for several years never tired of telling people that she was gluten intolerant, now she's on a plant based diet and is eating seitan several times a week, I haven't the heart to tell her that seitan is almost pure gluten.

I might be open to correction here but GF beers are not made in the same way as AF beers, it's not a case of making it as per usual and then extracting the gluten from it, they're made with different grains like rice or millet or even maize so it's different product. I do genuinely feel sorry for anyone who has the misfortune to be a coeliac but not those who have jumped on it as a fad.

BeerNut wrote: »

Mostly it is, and certainly in any Irish breweries it is. The Greens brand Belgian beers are made without barley or wheat but I don't know of any others on the market here.

A clarifying process that has been used for beer for years was discovered to strip enough gluten out to qualify the beer as gluten-free. If you're a brewer and your beer already qualifies as GF, there's no reason not to badge it as such: it's an extra market.

But is a genuine coeliac is not supposed to be able to tolerate even the most minute trace of gluten?

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Cop on will you.

Many people like my wife, who gave up gluten for a trial period on her doctor's advice, aren't willing to go back on it and be bloated/sick just so they can get an 'official' diagnosis. They're not coeliacs, but they do have an intolerance. It's only come to light recentliy for many of them. It's not just a fad. In my wife's case she tolerated gluten well for 40 years but then it started to cause problems. There are more bacteria in your gut than there are human cells in your whole body, and medical science is really only starting to investigate this area.

Read my my later posts before going off into a rant. I'm not talking about people with genuine issues, I'm talking about people who latch on to the latest fads, the sort of people who worship at the altar of people like Gwyneth Paltrow.
I have a brother who is coeliac (at the severe end of the scale) and while he welcomes the much broader range of GF products available to people like him (and your wife) he also feel that his condition is not taken as seriously in some areas as self diagnosed gluten intolerance has become so common, it was estimated in 2016 that something like 28% of the population of the UK were pursuing gluten free or low gluten diets.
15 years ago it was the Atkin's diet and since then all manner of fads have come and some gone, keto, paleo, and what ever your having yourself, pardon me if I'm a tad sceptical but in 10 years time we'll have a whole string of new diets with all manner of claims, many of which will not be true and there will be people gullible enough to latch on to them, these are the people I'm talking about, not my brother of your wife.