I really miss beer when I go out for a drink. As a student I quickly realised that pints of beer were much better value than most other alcoholic beverages and developed a taste, perhaps unusually for a young girl, for real ale. If you have a wheat allergy, or are a coeliac, beer is off limits. Yeast allergies also mean beer is not a great drink.
I soon realised beer was not good for me; what I suffered was not just any old hangover, I had to put up with a red puffy face, sore peeling my eye lids, itching skin on my face, scalp and neck and diarrhoea, as well as a headache and dehydration. I soon cut beer out of my diet, until I discovered Gluten Free Beer.
If you love beer, but cannot tolerate gluten, check out Gluten Free Beers. Green’s beers DO NOT contain any of the following allergens: gluten, crustaceans, eggs, fish, peanuts, soya beans, milk, lactose, nuts, celery, mustard, sesame seeds, sulphur dioxide and sulphites. Green’s is also available at the following supermarkets: Asda, Co-operative, Morrison’s, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and other independent retail outlets. They make a lager and real ale and they taste good, even my beer loving husband enjoyed a bottle of Greens Gluten Free beer.
Another good supplier is Hambleton Ales who brew GFA and GFL (Gluten Free Ale and Gluten Free Lager). These are also delicious and you can buy online on their website, numerous independent stockist and from Asda and Tesco Stores.
I wonder if beer can be yeast free? Yeast is essential in the brewing process, but from some research on the web there are some suppliers overseas who claim to be low yeast beers. Other websites discuss the theory that if a very high filtration process was used, the yeast could be filtered out, but would this effect the taste of the beer? Is low alcoholic beer yeast free? I’m not sure and will do some research into this.
Find out more about how gluten free beer is made on Wikipedia. Wouldn’t it be great if pubs stocked gluten free beer?
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Any luck on the yeast-free beer? I also have gluten and yeast allergies. I miss my beer
Can I ask what condition you have, because all your symptoms sound like mine, but since a kid everyone keeps telling me i have eczema or seborrhoeic dermatitis, I’m back at the docs in a couple of weeks so if I can get a gluten test, then i may do if that what it is, Im 32 now and have had to live with this all my life!!