Let's Make Gluten Free Beer - Easy Recipe for Homemade GF Beer

[@IglooForAHat]

I have never seen my wife so happy for a youtube video. she loves the mead I make thanks almosy entirely to the two of you, and GF beer was always my eventual goal. Now I can skip right over learning to trust someone else and get straight to making it.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Glad we could help!

[@georgecolby7488]

Some of my favorite beers I've made only had a 20 minute boil time, just enough to get some hop flavor and aroma and a low bitterness. I had someone ask about this recently, so I'm really glad you did this. Cheers!

[@gunrunner5095]

My wife's favorite recipe I make is my sorghum ginger ale. It's light and refreshing. I also throw in just a little chai spices to add complexity.

[@Succumbed2Rum]

Couple great quotes from Brian on this episode 😂. This was really entertaining. "Sometimes violence IS the answer" "It's what I do best. I complicate things, and I know things."

[@GeorgeSmyth]

Thanks so much for this. I have celiac and have been missing beer for quite some time (yet to find an acceptable gluten-free beer). Even if this doesn't work out, I will have a starting point for experimentation, so props for showing me a path.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Happy to help.

[@stonerainproductions]

I loved the animated LOTR reference, got it immediately! I love the cartoons and own the Hobbit one. Great content!

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@johnp.2267]

When you said, "rock of sorghum", I was reminded of Def Leppard's song Rock of Ages, and now I can't stop hearing a parody in my head. I'm betting the two of you could make a brown ale for the holidays that has a candied nut flavor reminiscent of those glass bowls some grandparents used to put out for snacking at Christmas.

[@lmcalhoun]

Thank you so much for making a GF beer and showing how easy it can be! My wife has Celiac, but she really used to enjoy beer. Redbridge is a GF beer from Budweiser, but it's hard to find sometimes. I am excited to try this! If you explore further on this, I will eagerly experiment along with you. Thank you again!

[@TortimerTheGrey]

Would love a video of you guys making a fruited version of this! You guys make everything so approachable!

[@lmcalhoun]

Second this!!

[@michaelgcoleman471]

Try adding flaked roasted corn or buckwheat to the wort next time to push it closer to a cream ale style.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

If that's what you're after, you certainly can 😊👍

[@SnareTrapSurvive]

WOW Muddy Pond, good choice! I actually live just down the road from where this is made. Finest you can get! I bet they would love knowing you guys used their product. They are great people.

[@thomt1264]

corn, rice, sorghum, buckwheat, millet, and quinoa

[@Impresario_zero]

I like the WB hobbit reference at the beginning. I still appreciate that movie❤

[@IglooForAHat]

35:27 Millet is the other big grain a local brewery uses here in Wisconsin. After I try this I'm going to shoot for a milletwine. Buckwheat may also work, but I get the feeling it would be overpoweting like buckwheat honey

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Yup, there's a few ways to achieve it.

[@glutenfreebeerbrian]

Burning Brothers in Wisconsin? I use buckwheat in tons of GF Beers, really helps with body and head retention, gf Oat malt helps too. Even done a 100% gf oat malt beer that was excellent…

[@IglooForAHat]

@glutenfreebeerbrian Alt brew in Madison

[@jakematthews6982]

From 30:10 on it was almost like what happened the first time I tried natural carbonation. It worked a lot better than I anticipated and my first bottle erupted in my hand in a very similar manner as in the video. Great memories.

[@abagailrhea3932]

Gluten free beer is so hard to find in my area, and having it shipped just isn't feasible due to cost. I don't drink beer, but I do use it to make bread with, and I'd say I can make it way cheaper than buying. Thank you for the video!

[@iseletoopu3313]

Watching all the way from east africa ,love your channel

[@markmanning2921]

not just corn starch but calcium carbonate is added to confectioners sugar. Basically thats ground up marble dust :)

[@CitySteadingBrews]

That wouldn't be a bad thing, as it just changes pH.

[@GrandPa_BBQer_Game_Cat]

Hey Brian and Danica. Thanks for this. When you put the pressure gauge on if you lift the springy bit like you do when you take it off, you will always find it easy to get on. Thanks again.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Yeah it was being difficult!

[@vincentlafleche8203]

I'm glad to follow you guys with the little hurricane logs you guys do. I'm happy you got mostly spared and this project can go on. I usually use 5ga kits to brew my beer and have had a lot of success in the past so I got lazy and stopped taking final gravity, I knew that if I wait 2-3 weeks, i'm usually good. Last time, I bottled after 3weeks of fermentation, which is usually plenty for me, but the beer still tasted quite syruppy. It was a new flavor so I didn't think too much of it. 2 weeks later, I opened a bottle and the beer launched 1ft in the air, leaving me with 1/8 of liquid still in the bottle... I learned my lesson. Also, I started my first mead! I just passed my first week of fermentation, so I know I have a little while to wait before tasting it.Thx for your vidoes and encouraging me to try!

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Yeah, we still do final readings all the time even after thousands of brews just for that reason!

[@julietardos5044]

So glad this worked out! I didn't know how it would be since I've (still) never made it. I'm curious why you add the yeast to each bottle rather than in the full batch with the sugar? Cheers!

[@CitySteadingBrews]

If you do the whole batch there is no guarantee it will be distributed evenly.

[@kenbrockfarm8656]

It's funny that you posted this, I made a mead-lasses brew yesterday

[@NoBonesPressed]

Cheers 🍻 and Prayers 🤲 May the people come together today for all that need the helping hands ...

[@KarnivoreKaren]

So thankful you are safe from the hurricane ❤ As far as the flavor? what would you do differently? More hops? Flavors? Or would you remake it as is? Thank you

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Honestly? We wouldn't remake it. We don't need gf beer but we made it for those of our viewers who asked for it.

[@steelehugs]

You know when you said "can you rinse my chopstick" is not a euphemism, we, it is now.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

LOL, yeah, saw that coming.

[@Pfhreak]

The instant you said "where there's a whip, there's a way" I heard that Rankin & Bass score kick in.

[@AdamFranklin500]

Talking about the reddish beer i believe you're referring to Ruby Ale @31:50

[@Eistier]

thanks for the video, glad you're safe!

[@OneImperfectSaint]

It's a pretty amber. I'm fighting the srm scales for my beers. My Oktoberfest came out deep red, sweet, and very caramel flavored. I'm calling it a Red Stout

[@ernestsmith1076]

You pronounce it pretty good!! Good job😂 I live in Portland

[@aaronchapman9005]

Sorghum is a moonshiner second choice for sweeting their brews

[@RobertHamm-u7c]

Here’s a challenge for you. Cola beer. It sounds disgusting, and at first taste, it’s like taking a first sip of Guinness. But as you keep drinking it, the taste smooths out and the sweetness from the Coke comes forward. I tried it in Germany back in 1999, and I fell in love with it.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

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[@RobertHamm-u7c]

@@CitySteadingBrews not exactly what I was expecting, but it was a great video anyways. Thank you.

[@coryclark7706]

for Bri .. a brew is just a whim away

[@barvin9271]

Missed opportunity to use brian's surprised face as the thumbnail imo. Also this video brought up a good point - i've recently had a coffee wine stall with 80 points left but about 10% converted already and despite racking, testing every subtle temp and pH variation, feeding it plenty of nutrient, and even trying 3 different yeasts to jumpstart (ec-1118 to start, k1v-1116 as a backup and then when that failed I tried the beast) alas it failed to restart, so I'm going to have to dilute and see if it's a salvageable brew. Point is - I was about to dump, but I didn't think to dilute coz brain dumb. Thanks for the idea.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Well... if it is already 10% and 80 points left? That's like 1.154 starting gravity. Likely the yeast are dead. Too much sugar will actually kill them. Restarting will be very difficult if not impossible. Better to blend with something really dry or try diluting by half to see if maybe you can get it going again.

[@tylersherrill4366]

Hello from Ruskin! So first off, so glad that milton did not seriously hit you guys! We also evacuated so I am glad that you and all of the kitties are safe! I have been trying to acclimate and dial in my pallet on different meads. What would be your prefered introductory mead brands that have a varying range from super sweet to dry? I feel as though I have not come across a commercial dry mead as of yet, which I know is totally subjective, but from an abv standpoint do any commercial meads really stick with a dry product as the end result? Like I said im just trying to dial in the pallet so any advice is welcome!

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Why not make your own? We don't really drink much commercial mead at all. Dry or sweet is just preference really.

[@goncalosousa7137]

"We don't want to go to War today, but the Lord of the Lash says, "Nay, nay, nay" Great lyric :D

[@barrytdrake]

...and now we know what you were drinking in Friday's video! I was wondereing.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

I don't even remember tbh.

[@Shadismic]

Hi guys, hope you’re doing well. For as much as I remember from when I used to make beer is that hard water emphasizes hop presence, soft water emphasizes malt presence. If it is of any use.

[@johnherron3961]

Very cool! 😎❤

[@marwankabalan]

Great content 👍. I have a question please: can we make beer from honey and without "hopes" (cause I can't find it in my country). Thank you 😊

[@CitySteadingBrews]

You can make a mead, but it won't be beer. Hops is a flower used in beer.

[@matthm65210]

If you don't have cheesecloth, can you use unbleached coffee filters to strain out hops goop?

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Could work but will take a long time.

[@mwinder70]

How does gluten change the taste? Can you make a beer with extra gluten and would that taste better? The red beer I am thinking of is Killian's Irish Red.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Gluten is part of barley that is used to make beer. I don't know that you could or would want to add more.

[@glutenfreebeerbrian]

Gluten is a protein, too much protein can cause head retention issues in beer…

[@glutenfreebeerbrian]

You “could” add gluten in the form of high gluten wheat or “vital wheat gluten”.. The reason GF items taste different is more that they are made from different ingredients… ie Rice tastes different than Wheat… so Rice bread will taste different than wheat bread… gluten is the “glue” that holds bread together… which is why gf breads tend to be crumbly…

[@NickLaBasi-jz8wt]

I have a question about swing top bottles. How often do you replace the gaskets?

[@CitySteadingBrews]

We actually haven't done it for years... probably should every year or so though.

[@chrisjohnsharp]

It’s from return of the king and yes it is an Amber beer I prefer to use honey to carb my beer but it is personal preference

[@CitySteadingBrews]

What you carbonate with makes very little difference in flavor.

[@laakins]

Killian’s is red. I used to drink that often. So. How would you have stopped carbonation before it got so strong?

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Generally you don't.

[@jarodlojeck5150]

That's it. The hops are called "Steve" now.

[@squirenelson2357]

have you tried Granulated Honey. Is there much of a difference between dry and wet honey

[@CitySteadingBrews]

From what I hear there is a huge difference. I would much prefer real honey myself.

[@minxey5813]

We like Ralph Bakshi here too.😁

[@realpopculturepodcast4417]

Maybe I just missed it, but what was the final ABV on this? After you cut it.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

After we cut it? Not sure what you mean there.... I believe it was about 7ish percent.

[@KernsJW]

If I may suggest, I'm still experimenting, add Malted Oats steeped (use liquid), and caputo gluten free flour for a more wheat like silkyness

[@CitySteadingBrews]

If you want to 👍, but I wouldn't add flour to a beer. Will just make a mess.

[@KernsJW]

@@CitySteadingBrews the yeast will eat the flour

[@dallasmobley9359]

Your well being is more important than youtube! Hope all is well! ❤❤ love you guys! As much as I love to watch your videos, I'd rather bid farewell to your videas as Opposed to seeing you're you're decline publicly. I personally seen what alcohol can do to the most responsible person....

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Not sure what you are talking about here. We had a hurricane come through and do a lot of damage. This has nothing to do with alcoholism.

[@kevint911]

ASMR Sorghum ❤

[@ozziedudemike]

I am really.close to starting a low carb beer brew. This may be another option for me to try. 🤔 With regard to the doubling of the batch size (adapting to what complications may arise during a brew) and how you get questions asking how bad a stuff up people have made, I recently had my first ever preservative issue. I had a suspicion that it may have been a preservative in some pineapple juice that my old failing eyes may have missed on checking the label 😂. It was a high gravity batch, so I diluted it a little. Still no joy. I rechecked the ph and it was a tiny bit low, so I adjusted it up a smidge. Then I made another simpler batch and ran that, and when it was done I added it to the original, thus diluting it without losing potential abv. I was making a rum and didn't want to lose the dunder and baked banana flavours I had added to the original (not to mention the pineapple flavour from the juice). I then used a starter for my yeast for the first time. When it was going nuts I added it to the fermenter and it never looked back. If you just think your way through a problem, you can usually reach a satisfactory solution. This was an easy solution, but I just had to go through the list of possible solutions from easiest to more complicated and weigh up options. I, too, now have a nearly double batch, which is a good problem to have. Don't give up on a brew too easily, folks. 😁

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Curious about the low carb beer...

[@ozziedudemike]

​@CitySteadingBrews low starting gravity. Amylase to use up the non fermentable stuff, back sweetened with the sweetener of your choice, and low hop additions, and low sulphates. By using enzymes you can have a crazily low SG and finish sub zero for around a 4%abv. An addition of oats can help with the lack of mouthfeel as well. Haven't made my mind up yet, but that sorgum had an awesome colour and pushing it dry with some back-sweetening might work as well. Lol. I am going to have to do some more research now. Someone has usually done what I am thinking about. Lol.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

It might reduce carbs, but a lot of the sweetness is what makes beer taste good too.

[@ozziedudemike]

@@CitySteadingBrews true, and I don't really dig most beers (a guineas or something light and crisp super cold on a hot day) and unfortunately this will make one of them an impossibility. But a crisp light beer is what I will be wanting out of this. And different fermentables might add something interesting. Can only try .

[@brandonhill8937]

I have looked through all your videos and I can’t find one on muscadine wine. I got two gallon size bags of red muscadine grapes frozen and I want to make wine with them.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Any of our whole fruit wines will work. You may need adjustments at the end but that's normal.

[@brandonhill8937]

@@CitySteadingBrews that’s what I figured, thanks!

[@Antmanpictures]

Moral of this video's story. Beer takes violence. lol

[@hammelbreu2059]

As a german with US-Experience I now need to ask THE question (yeah I admit, it don´t care about Gluten-Free): How is the brew/beer compared to a Yeungling?

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Nothing like it. Not a fan of Yeungling anyway, lol.

[@TheChairmen777]

You have 220,000 subscribers

[@CitySteadingBrews]

When we recorded that part we had 218,000.

[@ForsakenPhoenix485]

Beer is good. Beer is good. Let's go drink some beer

[@Rubberduck-tx2bh]

This is for all you aspiring homebrewers: The Greatest Adventure is what lies ahead." (Brian, see what I did there???) 🤣

[@bendthebow]

Ruby coloured beer. Is that a thing?

[@CitySteadingBrews]

It is now!

[@In-Cider]

What was the ABV?

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Around 7ish.

[@antheaxe7340]

i guess it is you first time ferment soregum so PH testing/reading might have been a good thing to know

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Maybe, but, it did ferment just fine.

[@antheaxe7340]

@@CitySteadingBrews somethig to do in future

[@erikhartwig6366]

when i think of sorgham, i think of molasses. its sweet with a funk..

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Kind of, yeah.

[@wbwillie]

looks like y'all made a beer soda LOL

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Soda?

[@wbwillie]

@@CitySteadingBrews yea, super carbonated beer, wouldn't that be beer "soda"??? LOL

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Nope. Still beer. Soda is just non alcoholic carbonated sugar.

[@wbwillie]

@@CitySteadingBrews obviously I'm just being facetious, but technically doesn't soda just refer to the carbonation, hence "soda" water?

[@TheTriFyre]

Looks nice! Hope everything is clean and you guys got a day or so to relax 😌 I want to make it with exotic CBD flowers for hops Huge hops fan and my favorite ales smell like my favorite smoke😅😅

[@FIAGRA-rp8xb]

🍻🍺🥂🍹🍸🥃🍷 oh yeah beer

[@TheChairmen777]

Cool 👍❤️your channel

[@rossrichert2022]

Can you make a beer out of oatmeal?

[@michaelgcoleman471]

Quite possibly if you could thin the wort enough to loose the gluey-ness of the meal.

[@IglooForAHat]

asking with high ignorance: isn't that what oatmeal stouts would be?

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Oatmeal stouts have adjuncts of oats added. They aren't made just from oats.

[@swish3796]

Wow the carbonation

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Yeah no kidding!

[@wbwillie]

gotta get all that shooger down the funnel LOL

[@brentmelander594]

Why not just mix the "insurance yeast" directly to the batch before bottling? Just as you mixed the sugar.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

It won't mix through evenly.

[@daviddejonghable]

I believe corn syrup is gluten free and may not have that forward note of the sorghum syrup.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Have you fermented it? I haven't yet but heard corn syrup isn't great tasting when fermented... could be wrong. May need to try.

[@hammelbreu2059]

TRBOS for President! 😂😅

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Lol

[@antheaxe7340]

rinse my chopstick HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

[@josephtyus6406]

I am allergic to Wheat, so I try my best to avoid Gluten products, but have a love of beer. Much sadness. I can usually get by with Stouts or Porters that use roasted barley. Thank you so much for sharing this! Also, a week or so ago I showed my toddler "where there's a whip, there's a way", song on KZbin. Song was still great, animation was hot garbage though. I remember the orcs being a lot scarier as a kid. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Yeah it did not age well.

[@reidbaugh6398]

The animated lord of the rings!

[@sc0ttw22]

Yay!

[@bigernbladesmith]

Since sorghum is closely related to corn, and fermented corn wort is called beer, I would think this would also be called beer. You are good to go! If you want to actually get technical corn, barley, wheat, and sorghum are all grasses. The seeds from grasses are grains. If you make a fermented beverage (non-distilled) from just grains it is called beer. Rice should be in there too, but for some reason everyone calls that a wine...even though it's a beer. 🤦‍♂

[@Impresario_zero]

Also: malted sorghum is what they make baijiu out of. The national liquor of china... if you never had it, and want to try something that will absolutely shove your face in the dirt, give it a try... its an aquired taste... but its usually around 60% abv

[@johnp.2267]

They also leave in the tails when they distill, so you get a ton of wet dog and cardboard and dirty funk flavors.

[@Lostboy811]

You make all kinds of BEER but have you ever made ROOT BEER.😂

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Not from scratch, no.

[@Lostboy811]

@CitySteadingBrews Just wondering because it is about the only Beer I will drink as someone who doesn't drink alcohol finding a KZbin channel about brewing all types of alcoholic beverages interesting might sound a bit strange but the chemistry of both of you just works to peak my interest in watching a video about something I won't be doing or really thought about learning about. Well, I will keep on watching as maybe the only subscribed person who doesn't drink any alcohol.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Actually... we have heard that many times! It's really cool.

[@bensidious2499]

How am I this early?

[@bartlester591]

Yes, where there’s a whip there’s a way is from the animated Lord of the rings return of the king it’s where Frodo and samwise we’re walking through Mordor wearing orc armor and the or mistake them for smaller or and put them in their line and then they start singing a marching song which is where there is a whip there is a way one of my favorite

[@glutenfreebeerbrian]

Yall wanna do a colab GF Beer? Partial Grain or All Grain? Hit me up if you’re interested

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Thanks for the offer but not really looking for more gf brews at this time 👍

[@antheaxe7340]

in foucus goop HAHAHAHAHAH

[@matthm65210]

I'm still calling it "William-ette" hops. I don't care if I'm wrong.

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Agreed. Seems like everyone is from there and everyone says it differently too.

[@mikwcas5110]

Wrong...220k. 👍

[@CitySteadingBrews]

When that was recorded we had 218k.

[@mikwcas5110]

@@CitySteadingBrews Well keep up the hard work Brian, appreciate all you info, thanks!

[@kimpanattoni]

I go the LOTR reference immediately; I sometimes sing that song to annoy my roommate and she hates me for it. :P "We don't wanna make a brew today, but the master of the beer says "nay, nay, nay!" We're gonna brew all day, all day, all day!"

[@CitySteadingBrews]

Lol

[@mikwcas5110]

Killians?