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I am allergic to malt and thus need to avoid it. I currently drink hard ciders, brandy, and wine. Are there any brew kits out there that does not use any kind of malt as an ingredient? I am trying research what I need to do to make my own beer. Thus far most of them seem to have some sort of malt in them. To be clear: the problem is the malt, not gluten. |
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As the comments and questions to your post have indicated, it sounds like a gluten problem. There are a few gluten-free beers (like Redbridge--an Anhueser-Bush product, unfortunately), so there are of course gluten-free homebrews. Most of what's available are sorghum-based. Here is one recipe kit based on sorghum extract and Belgian candi sugar: http://www.homebrewers.com/product/ALP1051/Gluten-Free-Dark-Ale-Beer-Kit.html You can still enjoy the pleasure of homebrewing with something like this, or I'd recommend acquiring a taste for mead (I'm not a mead-drinker myself, so my advice would be very limited here). You could do a lot with homebrewed mead without ever involving anything that could get you sick. Cheers! |
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Briess makes gluten-free malt substitutes. That particular product page is here: --> http://www.brewingwithbriess.com/Products/GF_Syrups.htm |
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If you're just allergic to gluten in the malt, then you can use roasted chestnuts as a good gluten free alternative. You soak the chestnuts with Amylase enzyme at about 160 degrees for 12 to 24 hours to break down the fermentable sugars, and then you use this as the basis of your wort. There's a lot of information about it over on the Homebrew Talk forum, or in the answers to this question about gluten free brewing. |
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