Gluten free strawberry blond new brews

[DigitAl42]

Hi all I am doing this brew for my sister who is celiac more of a request but has any one done this brew ? What is it like etc she is not too bothered about the strawberry flavour but going with it as it is, will report back when I am more experienced with this type of brew but any help and advice would be greatly appreciated :thumb:

 

[EskiBrew]

Hi all I am doing this brew for my sister who is celiac more of a request but has any one done this brew ? What is it like etc she is not too bothered about the strawberry flavour but going with it as it is, will report back when I am more experienced with this type of brew but any help and advice would be greatly appreciated :thumb:

Interested to know what you will use for the main malt?

 

[oldbloke]

Only GF kit I've done is the Gone With The Wheat czech lager, not bad but not great, though I did brew it well short so it was overhopped. Got the second half of it fermenting now, not going to short it quite so much this time, and used a different yeast.

Where's this kit/recipe of yours from? Is it based on sorghum?

 

[EskiBrew]

Only GF kit I've done is the Gone With The Wheat czech lager

:? - how can you get a gluten free brew from Wheat :wha:

GONE with the wheat - the wheat is GONE

But even if I wasn't brewing GF, I wouldn't use wheat, I'm a barley man all the way. Can't remember having a wheat beer I liked. Mind you not tried many.


NB I seen to have inadvertently edited this post instead of replying to it. Not the first or last cock-up I'll make as a Mod I'm sure.

 

[DigitAl42]

Yes it is also the gone with the wheat kit, shorghum based kit, we will see how it turns out and I have also got a cider kit as again it is gluten free, never done cider from a kit or any other way really but onwards and upwards, I have renewed inspiration and enthusiasm to carry on brewing and experimenting : andy help, advice or ideas are welcome :drunk:

 

[ceejam]

I just started a 'Gone with the wheat' Strawberry blonde kit last night.
Thought it looked interesting enough to try. I have a couple of friends who are Gluten free & liked the idea of a strawberry blonde, so thought "why not".

Anyone else done this kit? How did it turn out?

 

[ceejam]

Well, after being rather busy over the last few weeks I bottled this last night.

It smells very sweet, strawberry candy floss like, but tastes like strawberry beer.

The sediment was rather liquid, so got a fair amount into the first & last bottles.

The ones in between look fairly clear, so we will see how they are after a few weeks. Anyone else tried this kit?

Cheers
Jamie

 

[fumblefox]

Hi Jamie

I've just started my first attempt at brewing and am already looking ahead to the next several. My wife's coeliac and I'll be trying the gluten-free kits at some point. How did the Strawberry Blonde go after aging?

Cheers

Mark

 

[oldbloke]

The czech lager kit improves a lot if you give it plenty of time, and I mean plenty, though it's drinkable enough young.
As it ages it becomes less obvious it's sorghum and it gets fruitier.

NB Several places are now doing the cans of sorghum extract on their own, so you can devise your own recipes (but it's a little cheaper to get the full kit)
I've got a mild planned as that was Herself's preferred tipple before she was diagnosed (and if the pub we were in had a decent one, not a foregone conclusion)

 

[fumblefox]

That's good to know, oldbloke. My wife was diagnosed very young (her elder brother's coeliac too - West Irish roots have something to do with it, apparently) and so hasn't tasted beer other than a fair few Guinness in her wayward teens, and the commercial GF varieties, some of which are ruddy awful, so the GF kit version wouldn't be competing in a taste test with barley/wheat beers. If it approximates a lager flavour and looks golden in a chilled glass on a sunny day I think she'll be happy enough!

Cider's her usual drink, so I'm going to do a Blackrock Cider kit for my second shot at brewing.

As I get more experienced I might well experiment with GF recipes. Do let me know how your Mild goes.

Cheers.

 

[oldbloke]

I won't be getting onto the mild for a while, all my glassware is going to be full for the next month, as have 8 different TurboCiders planned. Herself mostly drinks my TC these days, prefers it to all but the best commercial stuff.
If you like mad tinkering, find my thread on making ale from millet (you have to malt it) - tatses just like 'real' beer!

 

[fumblefox]

I'm a way off mad tinkering for now, but if this brewing lark goes as I hope (a hobby! At last! I've always wanted a hobby...) I'll certainly give it a shot.

I travelled in West Africa for a while in the 80s and tasted several different kinds of evilly cloudy and vile-smelling millet based beerish stuff from gourds that, despite looks and smell, were pleasantly fruity, if thin, to drink. And a damn potent kick.

I'll plan to avoid the cloudiness and the pong, though. And the gourds.

 

[oldbloke]

Ah well they do it a bit differently to the way we treat barley. If you treat the millet just like barley, the ale pretty much tastes the same