Minimum life based on 'use-by' date of product. Average life based on last week's deliveries. Life guarantee shown based on delivery tomorrow with the Life guarantee starting the following day. Daura is a golden colour with shades of amber and slight hints of green. It is clean and sparkling. The head is cream-coloured and long lasting. Haven’t tried all the GF beers, but have heard that this recently won the best GF beer in the world (in Europe). And given all these beers contain alcohol anyway (which is not good for you in quantity) I am not overly concerned with processes and enzymes that might be in the GF beers. This seems inconsequential to moi. New Planet, crafted in Boulder, Colorado, was created when the founder discovered he had Celiac Disease and went on a personal quest to drink delicious beer. If you’re very sensitive to gluten, then be careful drinking them. But if you’re not super sensitive then just know that there could be some problems. Then again, there’s some argument that almost any light barley-only beer probably meets gluten-free standards.

This gluten-free lager brewed by Anheuser-Busch is the most accessible gluten free beer in the United States, due to its wide distribution network. Hopped with imported Hallertau and domestic Cascade hops, this sorghum beer has characteristics of the popular macro brews, but the company calls it a lager. This is an amber-colored beer, with delicate hints of copper and orange. It’s intense notes of hops define the personality of this Mediterranean version of the classic IPA style. Aromas of ripe fruit and tropical citrus notes reinforce its freshness. Yes, the US system of gluten-free and gluten-reduced seems better than the European one. I am avoiding beer for the moment as I have read research suggesting that some people might still react to fragments of degraded gluten proteins in supposedly safe beer. The Damm Brewers Masters together with the Gluten Unit of the CSIC (Higher Council for Scientific Research) were pioneers in developing a beer suitable for coeliacs with all the flavor of a “real” beer. We can define Daura as the flavour of “the usual beer” since it is made with its main ingredient (barley malt), and less than 3ppm of gluten, suitable for coeliacs.

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One of the first, and still one of the best, gluten-free brewers. From crisp, light lagers to rich, dark ales, Green's offers nearly a dozen premium gluten-free beers. Find Green's near you. Be careful! Green's makes some beers that are gluten-reduced. I have had New Grist, Bards, Les Messengre and Redbridge. Having just returned to Canada from New York where a celac pal advised me of this as the best he had tried I found that Daura blows all others away. i could care-less if it’s like a cheap barley beer (which to me it isn’t). Brewers Clarex is classified as a prolyl endoprotease, which basically means a “protein eating” enzyme that specifically targets the amino acid proline. The research you cite found that three peptides – each about 12 amino acids long – seem to cause many of the Celiac related problems. Scientists have previously sequenced barley hordein (for example, in this study in Biomedical and Life Sciences: http://www.springerlink.com/content/a112273645778415/) and found that proline occurs more frequently than every 12 amino acids. It then stands to reason that barley hordein “digested” by proline-seeking Brewers Clarex would yield peptides too small to cause a Celiac reaction. Daura was launched in 2006. Since then it has won many prestigious international awards as the best gluten-free beer.

After all, many people–not just Celiacs–feel WAY better when minimizing their gluten intake. It can be inflammatory and it becomes harder to digest with each year that passes, thanks in part to unsustainable farming practices and monocultures in our food system. The Taste Test Daura DammThis list is not even remotely complete. These are just a few favorites for your enjoyment. Find a more comprehensive list of Gluten-Free and Gluten-Removed Beers, and find hundreds of other gluten-free beers in our article on Oktoberfest Gluten-free Beers.