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Yeah sorry, that first explanation sucked. She's gluten-intolerant, and found that she only had digestive issues with beers containing wheat as an ingredient. The relatively small amounts of gluten in barley beers were tolerable to her and John isn't crazy about wheat to begin with. Celia is...

Well the relative gluten content of barley is much lower in barley compared to wheat. But that is neither here nor there, what really matters is that John Kimmich doesn't use wheat in any of his beers. Whether or not his science is sound isn't that important to me, he brews without wheat and his...

I know it's a drop in the bucket of a 200-page megathread at this point, but John has mentioned in interviews that he dropped all wheat from his beers because of his wife's intolerance to gluten. This is why his Celia Saison was sold off to Mercury brewing in Ipswich. Just a thought. Source...

Hey I'm in Somerville. Any chance you have some kegs left?

Anyone have advice on what the optimum timing is for this beer? I want to have it mature nicely, but not overshoot that juicy early hop phase. I'll be kegging it most likely.

Hey guys, I'm looking to brew a drifter clone pretty soon and I was wondering how your batches turned out. Like discussed before I'm a bit worried about the residual sweetness from all the crystal that goes into this recipe. Any thoughts from your experience?