Hello from England

[oldbloke]

Hi,
Pointed here by a homebrewer on an English homebrew forum because of your threads on gluten-free stuff.
My wife was diagnosed coeliac 5 years ago, and misses her beer. Commercial GF is available, of course, but is very expensive and some of it not that great.
I heard of a GF kit beer and got interested, then it disappeared from the market.
So I started doing wines instead - 'country' wines, like plum, parsnip, dandelion, nettle, tea.
Found some recipes by Duncan Incapable for ersatz beers made with a weird list of ingredients but which taste great, so did some of that.
TurboCider is all the rage in the UK just now so doing that - cheaper and better than the commercial ciders my wife's been drinking the last few years
Have tried a small feasibility test with some malted millet, with encouraging results

 

[Seven]

Welcome to the forums!

One of my friends must follow a gluten-free diet and she asked if we can brew something for her some day... so I'm interested in gluten-free brewing as well.

 

[BrandonBrews]

They carry Sorghum extract at my LHBS for making GF beer. I wonder if it's available in the UK. I'll ask if you're interested.

 

[oldbloke]

They carry Sorghum extract at my LHBS for making GF beer. I wonder if it's available in the UK. I'll ask if you interested.

Can't find it anywhere, despite massive Google sessions and emails to various likely people. Breiss don't seem to export to UK.
Sorghum seed can be found, however. When I've had some fun experimenting with millet, I may have a go with that (if it's seed-for-food not seed-for-planting-coated-with-insecticide-etc)