Gluten Free Beer Review – Brunehaut – Gold Medal Winner Amber Ale

Gold Medal Winner Brunehaut Amber Ale October 15, 2011

Gold Medal Winner Brunehaut Amber Ale Brunehaut is one of two (read about their blond ale here) new gluten free beers available as an import in the US market coming from Belgium. Brunehaut Amber won a gold medal at the 2011 US Open Beer Championships. Gluten free beer is a relatively new venture for Brunehaut [...]

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Gluten Free Beer Review – Silver Medal Winner Brunehaut Blond Ale

October 14, 2011
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Today I am sampling the Gluten Free Brunehaut Blond Ale. It is the newest import gluten free beer available in the US market and hails from Belgium. Brunehaut Blond won a silver medal in the 2011 US Open Beer Championships, which is impressive! Those of you in Europe have been lucky enough to have these [...]

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Gluten Free Beer Boom!

September 2, 2011
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Gluten free beer availability is growing rapidly. Could it eventually become mainstream? I think it’s possible. Recently, my mother was visiting Colorado Springs and took the picture you see here. Although more places are carrying gluten free beer, there are very few that have gone to the effort to advertise it like The Olive Branch [...]

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Gluten Free Beer Utah

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If you are gluten free and live in Utah or know someone who does, then you’ll want to know what’s in this report about gluten free beer in Utah. Utah is one of 18 states that is a control state. The term “control state” means the state takes physical responsibility for the control of the [...]

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Diversion – Crispin Cider 2nd Flavor

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Crispin Cider – Lansdowne’s Artisanal Reserve This Crispin cider comes in a 22 oz. bottle with 6.9% alcohol content. This is a unique cider blended with Irish stout yeast, a very full bodied cider. The smell is a blend of the rich Irish yeast and a subtle sweet apple. The mouth feel is much like [...]

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Diversion – Crispin Cider Review

March 28, 2011
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Crispin Natural Hard Apple Cider – Original Taking a bit of detour from my usual reviews, another excellent option for gluten free drinks is Hard Cider. There are a number of gluten free ciders on the market and I have tried a number of them. For me, cider is not a replacement for gluten free [...]

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New Planet – Off Grid Pale Ale

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This is the first offering from New Planet and my last one of the three to try. Off Grid Pale Ale is made from sorghum and brown rice extract, molasses, tapioca maltodextrin, caramel color, hops and yeast. The beer is a nice amber color with a little and quickly dissipating head. This beer has a [...]

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New Planet – 3R Raspberry Ale

March 22, 2011
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Being the second of three beers that New Planet makes, this beer is also a very light beer. The mouth feel is light with a mild berry flavor. This beer is not over powering in it’s fruitiness but you do definitely taste the berry from the raspberry puree in the 3R Raspberry Ale. My first [...]

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New Planet – Tread Lightly Ale

March 22, 2011
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New Planet is a company built with two main goals; to produce an excellent Gluten Free Beer and to give back to our environment and communities. Owner Pedro Gonzalez, in my opinion, is doing a great job at both! Now let me be very up front and tell you that I am a dark beer [...]

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What you are telling the Gluten Free Beer industry from New Planet Beer’s survey

November 10, 2010
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New Planet brewery, which is in and only sells to Colorado at the moment, has just completed a customer survey. You will not be surprised, I don’t believe, by what they were told. The biggest answer is, it is all about taste! This is not just something that New Planet has been told, but Joe [...]

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