{"id":989,"date":"2010-01-07T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T08:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=989"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T10:52:53","slug":"more-on-gluten-free-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/more-on-gluten-free-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Gluten Free Alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bottles\"In case this gets lost in the depths of this ever-growing site, I thought I’d highlight a comment recently left by Jason (for Stacey) on an earlier post about drinks you can and can’t enjoy if you’re gluten free<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stacey was discussing vodka, and said:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve read that vodkas are gluten-free, but when I drink some of them, I have a definite gluten reaction. I\u2019ve lived for forty years without being diagnosed w\/Celiac Disease (my intestines were so messed up I began developing allergies\/reactions to two hundred different foods \u2013 what a mess), but it\u2019s hard to ignore the migraines and throbbing cysts I get when I take in any form of gluten. Because many vodkas are distilled from grain, this makes sense to me, so why would all vodkas be labeled as gluten-free? I\u2019ve since discovered one vodka, Chopin (potato vodka), which I seem to be able to handle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jason’s very interesting reply was:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve actually had an interesting conversation with some people from the Bundaberg rum distillery recently (my wife and I visited there just before Christmas).<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve said that the distillation process renders the rum gluten-free, but some people with Coeliac disease still get a reaction. This is not because there are traces of gluten at all, but because some of the other water-soluble proteins do get carried across \u2013 and some people who have very extreme reactions to large numbers of things react to these proteins as well. So, it\u2019s not really a Coeliac reaction but another disease \u2013 but since they are both protein reactions the symptoms are likely to be very similar.<\/p>\n

I have had some of their rum recently and didn\u2019t have any reaction to it at all, so I suspect that you fall into the group of people who react to some of the soluble proteins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, obviously we don’t know whether this is true of Stacey or not, but I thought it might be interesting to those of you who do react to alcohols even though they are gluten free. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case this gets lost in the depths of this ever-growing site, I thought I’d highlight a comment recently left by Jason (for Stacey) on an earlier post about drinks you can and can’t enjoy if you’re gluten free. Stacey was discussing vodka, and said: I\u2019ve read that vodkas are gluten-free, but when I drink […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-living-gluten-free","8":"tag-alcohol","9":"tag-drinks","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}