Gluten-Free Solstice Saison

[cmccartn]

I have been a home brewer for about 4 years now and have had pretty good success with making my own recipes. For my next brew I decided to Purchase a Gluten Free kit online. I decided to buy a kit from a small brewer based out of Madison Wisconsin (full disclosure, Trevor Easton is my brother-in-law)

http://www.freshglutenfree.net/Gluten-Free-Beer-Homebrew-Kit-p/beer-kit.htm

My brew date is today, June 19th, 2014.

The kit is really nice, It has liquid extract, dry extract, candi sugar, 2 oz german hallertau hops, 1 oz of sterling hops, safale t-58 Belgian yeast, 1 tsp irish mosh, priming sugar, bottle caps and instructions (that are very step by step and easy for a new brewer).


The retail is about $40-45 with shipping at another 12, It makes roughly 50 beers so that amounts to just about $1 per beer for Gf beer.

I have a bunch of pictures from the brew day, but I am having a hard time loading them from my mac, if anyone has suggestions about how to load images or questions about the beer, let me know.

 

[cmccartn]

I am going to keep posting every couple of days as things progress on the beer

 

[cmccartn]

This is what the kit looks like, everything for a happy day of brewing

 

[Texconsinite]

Nice. Most LHBS dont have GF kits, so kudos to Madtown for steppin it up

 

[ChasidicCalvinist]

What is the dry malt extract? Is that just rice syrup solids or is it something else? I'm not aware of any GF dry malt (aside from RSS).

 

[cmccartn]

I honestly don't know what the dried Malt is, you could contact them directly and ask

http://www.altbrew.com/
is their website

You can also find them on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenview-Brewing-LLC/138688279663006


As a neat aside, it is starting to bubble up quite a bit. I love that sound, it is the sound of yeast turning my wort into beer

 

[cmccartn]

It has been awhile since I posted, but I am kegging my beer today. It looks good, and I am excited to try it soon.

I'll get a picture of my first pour once it is ready to serve.

 

[cmccartn]

It is delicious, I put a few pictures up so that you could take a look yourself.

The kit makes it easy to make a delicious brew. It is dark, almost a reddish shade to it when finished which is why I am thinking that this is almost the flavor of a red ale.

Delicious beer with full flavor but isn't too filling.