DKershner

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Category 14: Gluten Free Beer (13 Entries)
CELIA PALE ALE
The Alchemist
Waterbury, VT

GLUTEN FREE
Deschutes Brewery
Bend, OR

3R RASPBERRY ALE
New Planet Beer Co.
Boulder, CO

Gold, silver, bronze in order.

Has anyone tried the first or third ones? I have obviously had deschutes and it is the best I have had, including my own.

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Lcasanova

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Nope, Nope, and Nope.

I really wish I could try Deschutes, I'll have to look again to see if it's available out here but I don't think it is.

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Lucky 13 Brewing Company
Est. 2009

DKershner

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It's only available here sometimes and only in the brewpub, they certainly dont make much. I may see if it's available when I send off your care package.

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Lcasanova

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Whoa! Now that would be something

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Lucky 13 Brewing Company
Est. 2009

aggieotis

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I went to Deschutes last year around November and got their GF beer. I was highly disappointed. While certainly better than redbridge, you could tell they only used extract, and most of it was sorghum.

I guarantee you that unless they changed their recipe significantly (which is totally probable), everything that comes out of your bottles is way better.

Haven't tried the other guys' though, so I can't comment there.

Also, I like that there's a GF category, I've heard in the past it just gets lumped in with all the other specialty beers, which isn't exactly fair competition.

aggieotis

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Maybe they did change the recipe since I last had it.

DKershner

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The one I had tasted like an ESB, was dark amber in color and tasted like Hops and bitterness. I could taste very little sorghum. I had the beer right around the same time you did though. I thought they used chestnuts. I wasn't exactly in peak tasting posture either since I was drinking an inversion and eating a burger.

Most of the gluten free beers I make are light on hops because that is what the lady asks for. I think I could make a great hoppy GF beer, but I would have no one to drink it, so I don't go there. For this reason, I guess saying it is the best I have had is a little biased since sorghum is pretty easy to hide with hops.

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humann_brewing

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man if it hard for you to find it in the same city as it is produced....


I am headed to Eugene this winter and if the wife is still gluten free at that time I will make her try it.

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On tap: Batch 1 Flanders Red, experimental sour 1.072 > 1.000, #70 Simple, gone complex pale 1.063 4/5/13, #71 French IPA, American IPA with spanish cedar and fermented with 3711 1.059>1.008
Fermenting: #72 Flower power saison 1.053>1.004 with lavender and jasmine
Aging: #67 Bareleywine 1.116 11/07/2012, Flanders 2 batches 1.056 and 1.060 12/12/11 and 3/26/12, Smoked Porter 1.063 10/11, pepper RIS 1.088 7/11, Kriek, 1.052 12/11, RYE IPA sour experiment 8/12, Berliner Weisse 1.030 9/20/12

DKershner

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Yeah, I think it was only here and in Portland. No Deschutes brewpub in Eugene to my knowledge. At least, there wasn't when I lived there.

Although, good news Casanova...looks like the brewpub is pouring it at the moment. I never go there because it is always packed with tourists. I wonder if they would pour it straight into a 12oz bottle and let me cap it on the bar...

http://www.deschutesbrewery.com/brewery/brew-pubs/bend-pub/bend-whats-on-tap/default.aspx

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clb13

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Deschutes will fill growlers with any of their beers. I don't get down to Portland much, but anytime anyone I know is going, I give them two growlers, some money and they come back with 2 growlers' full of GF liquid heaven.

On a side note, I love St Peters sorghum ale - it has a completely different flavor than Deschutes GF ale. But I still think Deschutes takes the cake. Very little sorghum flavor, nice and hoppy...very ESB-ish. Best GF beer I've ever tasted.