gluten free home brew kit

[prodigal2]

I'm sure you'll be fine if you work on her, it doesnt sound like you are taking up that much room....well then again...

But DL does have a kiln, your halfway there

[Aleman]

The GF malt, was it barley malt with the gluten some how removed or was it a gluten free product ie sorghum, buckwheat

It was a GF alternative to Barley, not quite sure what the alternative was to be honest as I couldn't handle a tonne of it. I'll contact the guys and see if I can get some more info, just bear in mind that it is an awful lot of batches at 5kg per batch

Regards

TJB

[oblivious]

Could you used dry beer enzyme to mash flaked millet or sorghum to provide some fermentables and the rest made up with rice syrup and maybe a little sugar?

[duncan incapable]

Could you used dry beer enzyme to mash flaked millet or sorghum to provide some fermentables and the rest made up with rice syrup and maybe a little sugar?

Can you get pure 'beer enzyme', I think its called amylase, without the barley that it comes from?

I'll admit its not something I've tried looking for.

That's tomorrow lunchtime's googling session sorted.

[oblivious]

I am not a 100% sure the enzyme will do the job full, but maybe some out there will know on it own.

There is another product you could use is beano it will break down dextrin’s, some time use in very high gravity (21%) beers. But may be used in conjugation with the beer enzyme to produce a fermentable wort

[duncan incapable]

Could you used dry beer enzyme to mash flaked millet or sorghum to provide some fermentables and the rest made up with rice syrup and maybe a little sugar?

Can you get pure 'beer enzyme', I think its called amylase, without the barley that it comes from?

Answer: Google, she say yehes. You can get fungal amylase, normally used by home brewers for clearing starch haze from wine. So in theory thats a great idea. As I have never mashed anything but spuds I'll leave that for the experts.

[oblivious]

Its really not that hard, it’s a bit like making porridge!

[oblivious]

Here is a episode of basic brewing about Gluten Free brewing January 18,2007


There is also some sites for gluten free brewing the basic brewing supplied

http://glutenfreehomebrew.blogspot.com/

http://www.mrgoodbeer.com/gf/

http://www.fortunecity.com/boozers/brew ... gfbeer.htm

[duncan incapable]

This morning I recieved an email telling me about a company that sells a gluten free homebrew kit.

www.boskbeer.com

I've ordered one and will report back in due course.

It arrived on Thursday and contains :-

4pints of brewing concentrate. Ingredients 'sorghum, caramel and malt syrups'.
50g Goldings hops.
1 Teaspoon Irish Moss
250g Glucose priming Sugar
1 Sachet Safale s-04 Dry Ale Yeast
Instructions.

So doesn't look like it is based on any type of malted grain.

[prodigal2]

that looks like the kit has been put together by someone who knows what they are doing What are the kit instructions like?

If you could post picture of your brewday it would be appreciated, it sounds like you could have found a winner

I have friends that are gluten intolerant that visit and if I can treat them to a brew just like anyone else I would be made up. We don't like people to leave our house without being contented (even veg heads )

[duncan incapable]

It arrived on Thursday and contains :-

4pints of brewing concentrate. Ingredients 'sorghum, caramel and malt syrups'.

Doh!

Correction:

Ingredients 'sorghum, caramel and molasses syrups'.

Molasses not malt.

[duncan incapable]

that looks like the kit has been put together by someone who knows what they are doing What are the kit instructions like?

See

http://www.boskbeer.com/page3.htm

[UserDeleted]

Sorghum can be malted 'Traditionally' OTOH they could very well have produced the fermentables using an enzyme (amylase) to do the job ala Barley Syrup. The Caramels and Molasses are just there to provide colouring and 'flavouring'

Still it does look like a good kit for GF brewing

[duncan incapable]

Sorghum can be malted 'Traditionally' OTOH they could very well have produced the fermentables using an enzyme (amylase) to do the job ala Barley Syrup.

Sorghum Syrup is, I beleive, not derived from the sorghum grain, but by squeezing the juice out of a sorghum plant in the same way you would with sugar cane.

see

http://www.herculesengines.com/sorghum/default.html

but its not clear from the information with the kit if the syrup comes from grain or sap.

[duncan incapable]

I have friends that are gluten intolerant that visit and if I can treat them to a brew just like anyone else I would be made up. We don't like people to leave our house without being contented (even veg heads )

Did you spot the posts I put in the recipes section of the forum?

Just search for 'gluten free'.

The recipes are pretty whacky if you are used to malt based brewing, but they do produce a product which tastes like beer.

I have a couple of gluten tolerant freinds, CAMRA members since (or at least in) the 1970s, who actually ask for home brew, even when offered, shop bought, real ale type alternatives eg Speckled Hen, Old Peculier.

The cost of my recipes is around £15 for 40 pints.

Drop me a line if you can't source any of the ingredients, I'm working on a list of gluten free 'fermentables' available in the UK.