Gluten Free Beer

[davidlpope]

It may seem like cheating a bit, but how about brewing mead or cider? I worry that GF beer would be pretty dismal, given the limitations imposed, but you could learn to make a really excellent cider without the same limitations. For what it's worth, I think there's a dearth of good ciders here in the US. Everything seems to be sickly sweet without the necessary "bite".

[Kilted Jeeper]

I agree with you and cider is on the menu for a future brewing, but the wife did request a GF Beer and she worked so hard to finish her degree while maintaining a full time job and being Mom to 2 small children I feel I need to put forth as much effort in attempting to fufill her request.

There are a couple commercial GF Beers on the market that aren't bad, the most popular is probably Red Bridge which is a sorgum based beer from Anheiser Busch. It is very much like a typical American Light beer such as Coors Light.