The Morning Advertiser has the following:
Hambleton Ales is targeting health-conscious drinkers with a gluten-free lager.
Newcomer GFL joins the brewer’s Gluten Free Ale, or GFA, which it introduced last February. The brewer hopes to tap into the market serving consumers with food intolerances, which industry researcher Mintel says is worth £90m a year.
Hambleton said it had high hopes for GFL, its boldest challenge to more mainstream brands. Brewery owner Nick Stafford said: “It’s vital to target women, both as drinkers and shoppers. We were delighted by their response to our research and now we can widen the appeal of our gluten-free range, especially to younger men and women, through GFL.”
GFL is described as having a full and fruity character, finishing with bitterness and citrus flavour. The 4.8% abv beer comes in 500ml bottles, carries the Coeliac Society logo, and costs £2.79.
All we need to know now, is where it is stocked. When I’ve found some, we’ll do a taste test and let you know what we think.
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Hi, I’m afraid this is not really a replay and more of a request for help.
I’m the Morning Advertiser’s Web Editor and I published this story. My wife has recently been tested for Coeliac – via a blood sample – but the tests came back negative. However, after years of mouth ulcers and digestive problems she feels coeliac is a real possibility and says living Gluten free makes her feel better.
I just wondered where we could get a list of gluten free produce which we can buy in UK shops.
Thasnk for your help, Iain
Hi Iain – the Coeliac Society publishes a list of gluten free foods annually – find them at http://www.coeliac.org.uk – but I think you will have to join, and may have to be diagnosed as coeliac, to get the directory. Definitely worth having if possible, particularly at the beginning while learning what is and isn’t OK to eat.
Whether or not you can get hold of a copy of the directory, I can’t recommend the message board at http://members2.boardhost/glutenfree/ highly enough. If you’ve got any questions, you can post them there (I’m there several times a day) and there are many knowledgeable people who will be able to help.
If your wife can get a diagnosis (was she eating gluten for at least four weeks before the test? if not, then the results may be falsely negative) then she should be able to get some basic foods on prescription. Some doctors are happy to prescribe without a biopsy or even a positive blood test if the health difference is obvious enough. Getting a season ticket for prescriptions is worth it.
Good luck – perhaps meet you on the message board.
Hi. Probably old news now but you can definately get GFL (inventive name) at Asda in amongst the ‘normal’ lagers. It takes some getting used to but frankily, I don’t care. Between that and a gluten free pizza – I’m one happy bunny
we are looking to buy a large order . but we would like to sample first. would you be able to send us a sample first??? of yours. beer/lager gluten free.
Hi Brian – sorry, I don’t make gluten free beer or lager. I hope you find some that you like!
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