Found the Beer!

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:33 am

Morning All,

Over on the Medications & Diet Board here, Tex had a post about the new Annheuser Busch RedBridge Beer that is gluten free and being distributed nationwide. Still hard to find but there was a HUGE Whole Foods - and I mean HUGE! - in VA and I found the beer and brought home a six pack. Not a real beer drinker but on a hot summer day there is nothing like it. So for all our beer drinkers who are GF this looks like a very good thing. They also had another brand too.

Love, Maggie

Post by **tex** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:31 am

Love,
Tex

Polly · Post by **Polly** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:03 am

Hi Mags!

Glad you found the beer. Don't mean to rain on your parade, but I'll be interested to see of you can tolerate it. Remember when G'Ma Mary went GF and baked with sorghum flour instead? She still got sick. I think Tex said this beer was made from sorghum. Some of us do best with no grains at all - like me, Matthew, Joanna, Karen. Of course, the paleo diet allows no grains (not even rice), so I guess that's why the four of us have found we do best with that diet. Anyway, here's hoping that you will have no problem with it!

Love,

Polly

annie oakley · Post by **annie oakley** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:11 pm

GF Free Beer????%^$#5 Wow.......I'm sold. I shall look for it. Love Oma

Matthew · Post by **Matthew** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:18 pm

Well, of course I agree with Polly in that we, along with Joanna , Karen and others find we do best with no grains. Beer would never be worth it if it made me sick.

Any updates on gf’s trying sorghum. I feel to good to experiment.

Why mess up a good thing.

Matthew

CAMary · Post by **CAMary** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:22 am

Maggie-

I hope you find you can tolerate it! I'd be willing to be a "guinea pig" - though I don't like beer much...for the sake of experimentation I'd offer to be a lab rat

in the pursuit of GF knowledge....

I went out for a glass of wine with some friends tonight...boy I've drank more in the past month than I have in the previous six months!

Mary

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:31 am

Had to give you a report on this.

On Sunday I had the second one of these in the past month and Polly hit it right on the head, made me very ill and stayed in the loo most of yesterday. Thank heavens I have my own private bathroom here in the manor house at work. Definitely not something on my list. Drat that sorghum.

Love, Maggie

Post by **tex** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:45 am

Maggie,

Well, that's a heck of a note. Now I'm sorry I even posted about that product, but we appreciate the update, even though it wasn't what we like to hear.

You know, we consider our sensitivity to the prolamins in certain glutenous grains to be a "lite" version of the reaction that celiacs experience. I believe it was CAMary who coined the phrase "celiac lite". I'm beginning to wonder, though, if we might actually be more sensitive to these prolamins than the average celiac. Obviously, most celiacs can safely drink that beer, or Annheuser Busch wouldn't have spent the money it took to develop it.

Also, all the "experts" now claim that celiacs can safely eat pure oats, and yet when I gave them a thorough testing, they gave me D within a few hours. They didn't really make me feel sick, but when a food gives you D, it couldn't be good for you, (unless you're intentionally trying to clean out. LOL).

Surely, celiacs don't just tolerate the D, and assume that everything is fine, as long as they test negative to serum antibody tests, and/or villous atrophy on small intestinal biopsies. Or do they?

Love,
Tex

thedell19 · Post by **thedell19** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:49 am

The beer is outstanding. Much better than Bard's Tale. Another beer you can look into that they have on the East Coast is New Grist... that is an excellent beer that actually tastes like a damn good belgium whit beer... YUM YUM YUM

thedell19 · Post by **thedell19** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:56 am

I wouldnt be surprised if they beer contained a bit of gluten in it jsut from CC. But I have noticed that when I do drink the GF beer I do get stomach rumblings.