Gluten-free stout

[Tim_Crowhurst]

My mum is wheat intolerant, so she has to avoid stout, which is one of her favourite drinks. Her next birthday is her 70th, and I'd like to make some gluten-free stout for her, but since I don't know much about brewing beer I thought I'd better ask for advice.

She has to avoid barley, wheat and rye, but is fine with oats and other grains. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[oldbloke]

If it's just wheat intolerance rather than full coeliac disease, I'd have though stout would be OK - doesn't normally have wheat in it.
But you mention barley too - so that is coeliac, in which case she ought to be avoiding all beer that isn't certified GF.
My wife is also coeliac and misses it so I've tried the following:

Google for "Gone with the wheat" - range of kits based on sorghum. Don't know if they have a stout.

There are some ersatz ale recipes over on Jim's - search the forum for Duncan Incapable. They're mostly based on tea and marmite and prune juice and other weird stuff but they work.

There are a few GF ales commercially available, but I dunno that I've seen a stout.

You can malt millet and brew with it. It tastes better than sorghum, to me, almost indistinguishable from barley. Not tried roasting any dark enough to make stout though.

Convert her to TurboCider. Worked here, but a 70yr old might be a bit more set in her ways.