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Brewers
This is the page most readers want first, and the one the research directory can least provide: breweries appear across the grain pages scattered by the grain they use, and the people inside them almost never appear at all. Collected in one place, the roster answers questions no single grain page can: which grains gluten-free brewing actually runs on, who is dedicated versus who runs a line beside barley, and who has closed.
Start by what you need
If you are choosing a beer to drink, the distinction the shelf does not always make plain comes first: gluten-reduced beer is not gluten-free, and what "truly gluten-free" means here. Every status on this page is the brewery's own statement.
If you are asking a brewery about its process, the useful questions are the ones a dedicated facility can answer and a shared one cannot (grain handling, milling, and the cleaning regime between runs), and the reason a finished-beer test is weaker evidence than it looks. · cross-contact prevention · testing and certification
If you are building or converting a brewhouse, the equipment consequences of a huskless grist are the whole problem, and they are written up as working pages. · wort separation · process and equipment
If you are sourcing grain, the malthouse and supplier layer is mapped separately. · malthouses that run gluten-free · maltsters
If you want an outside read on a beer, enter it. The competitions running gluten-free categories, and what the guidelines actually say, are on our competitions page.
If you brew at home rather than commercially, the amateur layer of this role has its own page, homebrewers & home maltsters, and the methods are in the homebrew section.
The rules every directory runs on, what an entry is, what a listing means, and who owns a person, are on one page: How the directories work. Corrections and removals: contact us.
| Name | What | Category | Verified |
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| Ghostfish Brewing Company | Seattle. Brews on rice malt alongside millet and buckwheat. | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | — |
| Otherwise Brewing | San Carlos, California. | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | — |
| Buck Wild Brewing | Oakland, California. Brewed on buckwheat, rice, and millet; | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | 2026-10-17 |
| Evasion Brewing | McMinnville, Oregon. Malted rice and millet as primary ingredients. | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | — |
| Burning Brothers Brewing | St. Paul, Minnesota. Its grists spanned malted rice, millet, and sorghum; | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | 2026-10-17 |
| Glutenberg | Montreal. Brews across styles on millet, buckwheat, and corn. | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | — |
| Holidaily Brewing Company | Golden, Colorado. Brews on millet and buckwheat malts. | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | — |
| ALT Brew | Madison, Wisconsin. Roasted millet among its malts. | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | — |
| Aurochs Brewing Company | Emsworth, Pennsylvania. | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | 2026-10-17 |
| NEFF Brewing | Tulsa, Oklahoma. "NEFF Brewing is a dedicated gluten free facility," with "all of our beers ... | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | 2026-10-20 |
| Orange Bike Brewing Co | Portland, Maine. Sold as "Dedicated gluten-free," brewing on millet, buckwheat and rice malts with quinoa in a winter lager,… | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | 2026-10-20 |
| Lucky Pigeon Brewing Co | Biddeford, Maine. "Maine's first dedicated gluten-free brewery," a 7 bbl operation using "100% gluten-free ingredients" in the… | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | 2026-10-20 |
| Stoic Brews | Bentonville, Arkansas. | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | 2026-10-20 |
| The Well In Wellington | Wellington, Colorado. | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | 2026-10-20 |
| Ground Breaker Brewing | Portland, Oregon. Brewed "By the Sea," a teff gose with coriander, lemon peel and salt, using teff in the grain bill for the… | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | — |
| TWØBAYS Brewing Co | Dromana, Victoria, Australia. | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | — |
| ORYZAE Brewing | Wakayama City, Japan. | The roster · Dedicated gluten-free breweries | — |
| Green's | brewed under contract at De Proefbrouwerij, Lochristi, Belgium. | The roster · Breweries running gluten-free beers | — |
| Rebellion Brewing — O'Brien Beer | Wendouree, Victoria, Australia. | The roster · Breweries running gluten-free beers | — |
| Lakefront Brewery — New Grist | Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | The roster · Breweries running gluten-free beers | 2026-10-17 |
| Anheuser-Busch — Redbridge | the sorghum beer of the first US gluten-free wave, which now appears to be out of production. | The roster · Breweries running gluten-free beers | — |
| Divine Science Brewing | Tustin, Orange County, California. | The roster · Breweries running gluten-free beers | 2026-10-17 |
| Crispy Boy Brewing | Cascade, Iowa, on the farm of Miller Malting Co.. | The roster · Breweries running gluten-free beers | 2026-10-17 |
| Armored Cow Brewing Co | Charlotte, North Carolina. | The roster · Breweries running gluten-free beers | 2026-10-20 |
| Departed Soles Brewing Co | Jersey City, New Jersey. | The roster · Breweries running gluten-free beers | 2026-10-20 |
| Miski Brewing | Barrie, Ontario. The maker of Ancestral Quinoa Beer, launched in July 2023 and described as "organic, kosher, vegan and… | The roster · Breweries running gluten-free beers | 2026-10-16 |
| Meli | Massachusetts. A 100% quinoa beer (water, organic quinoa, hops and yeast), launched in summer 2024, developed with MIT food… | The roster · Breweries running gluten-free beers | 2026-10-16 |
| Thornbridge | United Kingdom. Its Brewing for Impact entry put fonio into a cask-conditioned ale. | The roster · Breweries brewing with gluten-free grains | 2026-08-25 |
| Kiitos | Salt Lake City. Released Fonio, brewed on a 100% fonio grist with amyloglucosidase and pullulanase added, in January 2025, per… | The roster · Breweries brewing with gluten-free grains | 2026-10-16 |
| Brooklyn Brewery | Brooklyn, New York. Fonio's brewing patron: working with the grain since 2019, releaser of "Fonio Rising" with Yolélé in 2022,… | The roster · Breweries brewing with gluten-free grains | — |
| Maison Kalao | Dakar, Senegal. The self-described pan-African craft brewery whose founder was developing fonio recipes independently before… | The roster · Breweries brewing with gluten-free grains | — |
| Guinness | closed the Brewing for Impact campaign in November 2024 with a fonio stout. | The roster · Breweries brewing with gluten-free grains | — |
| Russian River Brewing | brewed its Brewing for Impact entry as a fonio Belgian blonde ale, released August 2024. | The roster · Breweries brewing with gluten-free grains | — |
| Guinness Nigeria | brews with locally sourced roasted maize alongside sorghum, the industrial end of the barley-ban conversion. | The roster · Breweries brewing with gluten-free grains | — |
| Craig Belser | founder and brewer of the original craft sorghum beer, whose production record and commissioned analyses this site publishes. | The roster · Brewers | — |
| Aaron Gervais & Stellar Cassidy | founders of Otherwise Brewing; | The roster · Brewers | — |
| Karen Hertz | founder of Holidaily Brewing, the dedicated gluten-free brewery on the demand end of Colorado's millet grain-to-glass chain. | The roster · Brewers | — |
| Garrett Oliver | Brooklyn Brewery's brewmaster; | The roster · Brewers | — |
| Blake Richardson | president and owner of moto-i, Minneapolis, which opened in 2008 as the first sake brewpub in the United States: the earliest… | The roster · Brewers | — |
| Andrew Kalinoski | founder and head brewer of Armored Cow Brewing, who began brewing gluten-free beer for a family member with celiac disease,… | The roster · Brewers | — |
| Alan Pugsley | brewmaster known for D.L. | The roster · Brewers | — |
| Kathleen "Pidge" Pigeon | co-founder of Lucky Pigeon Brewing with Beverly Pigeon and Nic and Lesley Bramer; | The roster · Brewers | — |
| Robert Keifer | homebrewer and author. | The roster · Brewers | — |
| Weston Konishi | President, Sake Brewers Association of North America. | The roster · Also described on the research directories | 2026-09-07 |
| Byron Stithem | Proper Sake Co., Nashville. | The roster · Also described on the research directories | 2026-09-07 |
| Brewers Association | Boulder, Colorado. The US craft brewing trade association; | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| Great American Beer Festival competition | the association's national competition, which for 2026 lists three separate gluten-free categories (26, 27 and 28) rather than… | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| Beer Judge Certification Program | the body that certifies beer judges and maintains the style guidelines an entry is assessed against, including the 2021… | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| AHA/BJCP sanctioned competition program | the standing circuit of sanctioned competitions, judged to the same guidelines, and where a gluten-free entry is judged when… | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| AHA National Homebrew Competition | the homebrew field's largest competition, judged to the BJCP 2021 beer guidelines, which route a gluten-free entry through 31A… | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| American Homebrewers Association | the homebrew field's national body: runs Homebrew Con and Learn to Homebrew Day and publishes Zymurgy; | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| Master Brewers Association of the Americas | the working brewers' technical body, and a channel through which supplier and process knowledge reaches breweries. | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| The Craft Brewers Conference | the US industry's annual trade event, where the ingredient and equipment suppliers' booths meet craft brewing. | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| American Society of Brewing Chemists | the North American brewing methods body, and the framework a US malt or beer specification is written against. | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| Chartered Institute of Brewers & Distillers | (formerly the Institute of Brewing and Distilling) — the professional body that publishes the Journal of the Institute of… | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| European Brewery Convention | founded 1946; the scientific and technical arm of The Brewers of Europe, and the publisher of the Analytica-EBC methods behind… | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| Zero Tolerance Gluten Free Brewing, and the Gluten Free Brewing Guild | the category's dedicated club and its Discord successor, spanning consumers, homebrewers and professional brewers of naturally… | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| Gluten Intolerance Group of North America | Auburn, Washington. The patient organization that also operates a certification scheme: the body a brewery applies to when it… | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| Sake Brewers Association of North America | Washington DC. Founded 2019; | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| American Craft Sake Fest | the US sake industry's own festival, and the main public gathering of North American producers converting a gluten-free grain… | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| Brewing for Impact | Brooklyn Brewery's 2024 campaign: a brewery-a-month fonio release calendar running from April to the Guinness finale in… | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| International Beer Cup — Gluten-Free Beer category | Japan. An annual commercial beer competition run by the Craft Beer Association of Nishinomiya, whose 2025 style list includes… | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| World Beer Cup | the Brewers Association's international competition, developed in 1996, whose style list carries a gluten-free category; | Bodies & gatherings | 2026-10-17 |
| Maine Brewers' Guild | the state brewers' association, whose member listings carry Maine's dedicated gluten-free breweries; | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| USA TODAY 10BEST, best gluten-free beer | a readers' poll rather than a judged competition; | Bodies & gatherings | — |
| Competitions with gluten-free categories | the working list, with entry guidance, is on our competitions page. | Bodies & gatherings | — |
The roster — who brews it45 entries
— Dedicated gluten-free breweries —
Ghostfish Brewing Company — Seattle. Brews on rice malt alongside millet and buckwheat. · subjects: rice, millet, buckwheat
Otherwise Brewing — San Carlos, California. Rice-first; its flagship lager is brewed on rice malt with millet, by the brewery's own account. · subjects: rice, buckwheat
Buck Wild Brewing — Oakland, California. Brewed on buckwheat, rice, and millet; it closed in April 2024, per LocalWiki Oakland, citing KRON (2024-04-22). · LocalWiki Oakland · subjects: buckwheat, rice, millet · Verified 2026-10-17
Evasion Brewing — McMinnville, Oregon. Malted rice and millet as primary ingredients. · subjects: rice, millet
Burning Brothers Brewing — St. Paul, Minnesota. Its grists spanned malted rice, millet, and sorghum; its last day was 10 May 2025, per the Star Tribune's closing report (2025-05-01). · Star Tribune, via Yahoo · subjects: millet, rice · Verified 2026-10-17
Glutenberg — Montreal. Brews across styles on millet, buckwheat, and corn. · subjects: millet, buckwheat, corn
Holidaily Brewing Company — Golden, Colorado. Brews on millet and buckwheat malts. · subject: millet
ALT Brew — Madison, Wisconsin. Roasted millet among its malts. · subject: millet
Aurochs Brewing Company — Emsworth, Pennsylvania. Built its beers on millet and quinoa, which made quinoa a working ingredient in commercial gluten-free beer rather than a laboratory one. It ceased operations at the end of 2024, per The Beer Thrillers (2024-11-01). · The Beer Thrillers · subject: quinoa & amaranth · Verified 2026-10-17
NEFF Brewing — Tulsa, Oklahoma. "NEFF Brewing is a dedicated gluten free facility," with "all of our beers ... brewed from 100% gluten free grains," by its own account; earlier coverage named millet, buckwheat, rice and quinoa malts. Gold at GABF 2025, per Tulsa People. · NEFF Brewing · subjects: millet, quinoa & amaranth · Verified 2026-10-20
Orange Bike Brewing Co. — Portland, Maine. Sold as "Dedicated gluten-free," brewing on millet, buckwheat and rice malts with quinoa in a winter lager, per a 2024 Press Herald review; gold (Specialty Gluten-Free) and silver (Classic Gluten-Free) at GABF 2026. Flagged: a retailer's ingredient list for its Hazy IPA includes oats, which this site does not count as a gluten-free brewing grain, so ask how they are sourced and tested. · Press Herald, 2024 · subjects: millet, buckwheat · Verified 2026-10-20
Lucky Pigeon Brewing Co. — Biddeford, Maine. "Maine's first dedicated gluten-free brewery," a 7 bbl operation using "100% gluten-free ingredients" in the Pepperell Mill, its tasting room open since September 2021, per its Maine Brewers' Guild listing. Flagged: The Maine Magazine reported in 2022 that its head brewer worked with rolled oats among other grains, and this site does not count oats as a gluten-free brewing grain, so ask which beers use them. · Maine Brewers' Guild · subjects: millet, rice · Verified 2026-10-20
Stoic Brews — Bentonville, Arkansas. Calls itself "the first dedicated gluten-free brewery with taproom in the state," by its own account. · Stoic Brews · Verified 2026-10-20
The Well In Wellington — Wellington, Colorado. A taproom in the town's grain elevator "serving gluten-free beer made from our own in-house malt"; pre-opening coverage named Twila Soles, founder of Grouse Malt House, as owner. Gold, Classic Gluten-Free, GABF 2026; its site now says it "is currently closed while we plan what's next." · The Well · Verified 2026-10-20
Ground Breaker Brewing — Portland, Oregon. Brewed "By the Sea," a teff gose with coriander, lemon peel and salt, using teff in the grain bill for the style's wheat-like character. · subject: teff
TWØBAYS Brewing Co — Dromana, Victoria, Australia. Dedicated gluten-free brewery on millet, rice and buckwheat malts, which it also imports from two US gluten-free malthouses and resells in Australia and New Zealand. · subjects: millet, rice, buckwheat
ORYZAE Brewing — Wakayama City, Japan. Brews with no malt or barley, on rice koji grown on germinated paddy rice, by the brewery's own account. · subjects: koji and grown enzymes, rice
— Breweries running gluten-free beers —
Green's — brewed under contract at De Proefbrouwerij, Lochristi, Belgium. Gluten-free beers on sorghum, millet, brown rice and buckwheat, which the brand states are certified through the Gluten-Free Food Program. · subjects: sorghum, millet
Rebellion Brewing — O'Brien Beer — Wendouree, Victoria, Australia. "Always 100% gluten free" beer on sorghum and millet since 2005, with malted grains developed with local farmers, by its own account. · subjects: sorghum, millet
Lakefront Brewery — New Grist — Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A barley brewery's gluten-free line, which it says is "brewed without wheat or barley" on sorghum, rice extract and malted millet; by Lakefront's own account it was "the first gluten-free beer given approval by the US government for production." The line now runs to New Grist, a Radler and an IPA. The page shows the GFCO logo; it says nothing about separate brewing equipment or testing. · New Grist · subjects: sorghum, millet, rice · Verified 2026-10-17
Anheuser-Busch — Redbridge — the sorghum beer of the first US gluten-free wave, which now appears to be out of production. · subject: sorghum
Divine Science Brewing — Tustin, Orange County, California. A brewery that states "Everything we make is always 100% Gluten Free," brewing on malted rice, millet and corn among other naturally gluten-free grains. It names no certifier or testing programme. · Divine Science Brewing · subjects: millet, rice, corn · Verified 2026-10-17
Crispy Boy Brewing — Cascade, Iowa, on the farm of Miller Malting Co.. Its site calls its beer gluten-free, "made with malted millet, rice and corn," and, by its own account, grown, malted and brewed on the farm. It does not describe itself as a dedicated gluten-free brewery. · Crispy Boy · subjects: millet, rice, corn · Verified 2026-10-17
Armored Cow Brewing Co. — Charlotte, North Carolina. A brewery whose gluten-free beers, such as an amber "brewed with buckwheat, pale millet, and caramillet," it calls "celiac safe"; Charlotte Magazine reported at its 2019 opening that they are brewed without enzymes on a system separate from its traditional beers. Gold, Hoppy Gluten-Free, GABF 2026. · Armored Cow · Charlotte Magazine · subject: buckwheat · Verified 2026-10-20
Departed Soles Brewing Co. — Jersey City, New Jersey. Offers beers made with "100% certified gluten-free ingredients," "brewed and canned on dedicated equipment," per ROI-NJ, whose 2025 report also records a USA TODAY 10BEST best gluten-free beer award; bronze, Specialty Gluten-Free, GABF 2026. Whether everything it brews is gluten-free isn't stated. · ROI-NJ, 2025 · Verified 2026-10-20
Miski Brewing — Barrie, Ontario. The maker of Ancestral Quinoa Beer, launched in July 2023 and described as "organic, kosher, vegan and gluten-free certified"; Niagara College's Food and Beverage Innovation Centre ran its process and scale-up trials. The project page does not mention malting. · the project · subject: quinoa & amaranth · Verified 2026-10-16
Meli — Massachusetts. A 100% quinoa beer (water, organic quinoa, hops and yeast), launched in summer 2024, developed with MIT food scientists and sold as naturally gluten-free at 4.4% ABV, per a trade report that does not name the brewery that makes it or say whether the quinoa is malted. · the report · subject: quinoa & amaranth · Verified 2026-10-16
— Breweries brewing with gluten-free grains —
These breweries brew with grains this site covers, beside barley. They make no gluten-free claim for these beers, and neither do we.
Thornbridge — United Kingdom. Its Brewing for Impact entry put fonio into a cask-conditioned ale. · the collaboration · subject: fonio · Verified 2026-08-25
Kiitos — Salt Lake City. Released Fonio, brewed on a 100% fonio grist with amyloglucosidase and pullulanase added, in January 2025, per trade coverage; it also brews a fonio IPA on a grist of half pilsner malt, and the coverage does not call Fonio gluten-free or report a test. · the coverage · subject: fonio · Verified 2026-10-16
Brooklyn Brewery — Brooklyn, New York. Fonio's brewing patron: working with the grain since 2019, releaser of "Fonio Rising" with Yolélé in 2022, and home of the Brewing for Impact campaign. · subject: fonio
Maison Kalao — Dakar, Senegal. The self-described pan-African craft brewery whose founder was developing fonio recipes independently before the Brooklyn campaign, and whose KARAPID is fonio beer's standing African home. · subject: fonio
Guinness — closed the Brewing for Impact campaign in November 2024 with a fonio stout. · subject: fonio
Russian River Brewing — brewed its Brewing for Impact entry as a fonio Belgian blonde ale, released August 2024. · subject: fonio
Guinness Nigeria — brews with locally sourced roasted maize alongside sorghum, the industrial end of the barley-ban conversion. · subjects: corn, sorghum
— Brewers —
Craig Belser — founder and brewer of the original craft sorghum beer, whose production record and commissioned analyses this site publishes. Disclosure: this site's own founding story. About Craig · the Bard's story
Aaron Gervais & Stellar Cassidy — founders of Otherwise Brewing; authors of its published enzyme-dosing guidance. · the dosing guide, on the enzymes wing
Karen Hertz — founder of Holidaily Brewing, the dedicated gluten-free brewery on the demand end of Colorado's millet grain-to-glass chain. · subject: millet
Garrett Oliver — Brooklyn Brewery's brewmaster; working with fonio since 2019 and creator of the Brewing for Impact campaign that put seven breweries on four continents behind the grain. · subject: fonio
Blake Richardson — president and owner of moto-i, Minneapolis, which opened in 2008 as the first sake brewpub in the United States: the earliest US operation converting a gluten-free grain with grown enzymes on premises. · subject: koji enzymes
Andrew Kalinoski — founder and head brewer of Armored Cow Brewing, who began brewing gluten-free beer for a family member with celiac disease, per Charlotte Magazine. · Charlotte Magazine
Alan Pugsley — brewmaster known for D.L. Geary Brewing and Shipyard Brewing, who joined Orange Bike Brewing as a consultant developing its gluten-free recipes, per Portland Food Map (2023). · Portland Food Map
Kathleen "Pidge" Pigeon — co-founder of Lucky Pigeon Brewing with Beverly Pigeon and Nic and Lesley Bramer; a homebrewer who started it after finding she had an intolerance to gluten, per The Maine Magazine (2022). · The Maine Magazine
Robert Keifer — homebrewer and author. Described on Homebrewers & Home Maltsters
Seeded 2026-08-25 from entries this site already holds; extended 2026-08-27 from the research directory. Growing.
— Also described on the research directories —
Weston Konishi — President, Sake Brewers Association of North America. · koji and grown enzymes · Verified 2026-09-07
Byron Stithem — Proper Sake Co., Nashville. · koji and grown enzymes · Verified 2026-09-07
Bodies & gatherings — the associations, competitions and events this role runs through21 entries
Brewers Association — Boulder, Colorado. The US craft brewing trade association; it publishes the beer style guidelines and runs the Great American Beer Festival competition. · Brewers Association · the gluten-free categories
Great American Beer Festival competition — the association's national competition, which for 2026 lists three separate gluten-free categories (26, 27 and 28) rather than one, and whose guidelines state that beers brewed with gluten-containing grain may not be categorized as gluten-free within them. · Our competitions page · GABF
Beer Judge Certification Program — the body that certifies beer judges and maintains the style guidelines an entry is assessed against, including the 2021 guidelines' Category 31A, Alternative Grain Beer, whose entry instructions address gluten-free beers made from completely gluten-free ingredients. · BJCP · the practitioner wing
AHA/BJCP sanctioned competition program — the standing circuit of sanctioned competitions, judged to the same guidelines, and where a gluten-free entry is judged when it is judged at all. · The program
AHA National Homebrew Competition — the homebrew field's largest competition, judged to the BJCP 2021 beer guidelines, which route a gluten-free entry through 31A rather than through a dedicated gluten-free category. · homebrewers & home maltsters
American Homebrewers Association — the homebrew field's national body: runs Homebrew Con and Learn to Homebrew Day and publishes Zymurgy; fully independent of the Brewers Association since 2025, by its own account. The BA's Brewers Publications imprint put out the category's only book-length treatment. · AHA · AHA, 2025-11-04 · Brewers Publications · homebrewers & home maltsters
Master Brewers Association of the Americas — the working brewers' technical body, and a channel through which supplier and process knowledge reaches breweries. · MBAA · the enzymes wing
The Craft Brewers Conference — the US industry's annual trade event, where the ingredient and equipment suppliers' booths meet craft brewing. · The conference · suppliers
American Society of Brewing Chemists — the North American brewing methods body, and the framework a US malt or beer specification is written against. · ASBC · testing and certification
Chartered Institute of Brewers & Distillers (formerly the Institute of Brewing and Distilling) — the professional body that publishes the Journal of the Institute of Brewing, which carries much of this directory's process and enzyme literature. · CIBD · process and equipment
European Brewery Convention — founded 1946; the scientific and technical arm of The Brewers of Europe, and the publisher of the Analytica-EBC methods behind the EBC color and haze units. · flavor and sensory
Zero Tolerance Gluten Free Brewing, and the Gluten Free Brewing Guild — the category's dedicated club and its Discord successor, spanning consumers, homebrewers and professional brewers of naturally gluten-free beer. · described on homebrewers & home maltsters
Gluten Intolerance Group of North America — Auburn, Washington. The patient organization that also operates a certification scheme: the body a brewery applies to when it wants a certification mark on the label. · getting certified gluten-free · labs & certifiers
Sake Brewers Association of North America — Washington DC. Founded 2019; a trade association and, by its own account, the oldest and largest sake trade body outside Japan. · SBANA · koji enzymes
American Craft Sake Fest — the US sake industry's own festival, and the main public gathering of North American producers converting a gluten-free grain with grown enzymes. · Festival · koji enzymes
Brewing for Impact — Brooklyn Brewery's 2024 campaign: a brewery-a-month fonio release calendar running from April to the Guinness finale in November, across four continents. · subject: fonio
International Beer Cup — Gluten-Free Beer category — Japan. An annual commercial beer competition run by the Craft Beer Association of Nishinomiya, whose 2025 style list includes a "Gluten-Free Beer" category; the category name does not say whether entries are dedicated gluten-free or gluten-reduced. · IBC2025 · koji and grown enzymes
World Beer Cup — the Brewers Association's international competition, developed in 1996, whose style list carries a gluten-free category; TWØBAYS took its gold in 2025 among 39 entries. The 2027 awards are April 7 in San Antonio, Texas. · World Beer Cup · WBC 2025 winners · millet · Verified 2026-10-17
Maine Brewers' Guild — the state brewers' association, whose member listings carry Maine's dedicated gluten-free breweries; a state guild is often where a new small brewery is listed first. · Maine Brewers' Guild
USA TODAY 10BEST, best gluten-free beer — a readers' poll rather than a judged competition; Departed Soles won it in 2025 after placing second in 2024, per ROI-NJ. · ROI-NJ, 2025
Competitions with gluten-free categories — the working list, with entry guidance, is on our competitions page.
How this role connects — documented links to other roles and subjects
- The grain pages cannot answer what this page answers. The research directory sorts breweries by the grain they use; collected into one roster, the dedicated layer runs mostly on millet and rice, a fact about brewers rather than about the grains.
- Brewers and maltsters are one chain with two ends, and Colorado holds both in a single state: a dedicated gluten-free malthouse supplying millet malt, and a dedicated gluten-free brewery buying it. In Wellington the two ends share an owner, a taproom serving beer made from its own in-house malt. See maltsters.
- The amateur and professional layers are the same community here. The category's only book was written by a club homebrewer who went on to co-found a brewery, the one name carried by both this page and homebrewers & home maltsters.
- Brewers are the customers the supply layer exists for (enzymes, pre-gelatinized grain, rice hulls, yeast), and that layer publishes the dose sheets this role brews from. · suppliers · external enzymes
- This role meets the researchers as procedure, not as papers. The university mashing and malting work reaches a brewhouse only once someone turns it into a protocol. · researchers · process and equipment
- A brewery's gluten-free claim is a laboratory question before it is a label question, which is why this role and the certifying role are permanently attached. · labs & certifiers · testing and certification
- Some brewers are also this field's publishers. A brewery's own dosing guidance and a brewmaster's grain campaign are educational work performed from inside the role. · writers & educators
- New gluten-free breweries buy experience from outside the category. One dedicated brewery hired a veteran barley brewmaster as a consultant to write its gluten-free recipes, the route this site's own consultation work exists for. · consultation · writers & educators
- Not every gluten-free brewer doses enzymes. One gluten-free line is reported as brewed without them, against the external-enzyme practice the supply layer and this site's mash protocols are built around; the difference is a question to put to the brewer, not a verdict. · suppliers · external enzymes
- A gluten-free line at a brewery that also brews barley rests on separate equipment. Two of the gluten-free lines listed above state a dedicated system or dedicated equipment, which makes the facility, not the grain, the thing a celiac drinker is trusting. · dedicated equipment and facilities · labs & certifiers
- A brewery can be its own enzyme supplier. On the sake side of this role, koji is grown on premises and sold on to other businesses, the enzyme layer collapsing into the brewing layer. · koji enzymes
- Where a grain has no brewery, it has no proof. Quinoa reaches commercial beer through dedicated breweries' grain bills; teff reaches it through one documented release; amaranth, so far as we have found, reaches it not at all. · quinoa & amaranth · teff
- The biggest names in this roster are not gluten-free brewers. The fonio breweries brew beside barley, which buys the grain visibility and buys a celiac drinker nothing: the clearest case on this site of the distance between a gluten-free grain and a gluten-free beer. · fonio
- This role reaches advocacy through the label. What a brewery may state is set by regulators and read by patient organizations, and where those two draw the line is what this role has to brew inside. · advocacy · gluten-reduced beer is not gluten-free
- A discontinued beer is a data point this map has to carry. The sorghum era that opened US gluten-free brewing is documented on sorghum, and one of its two anchor products is listed above as out of production.
- A gluten-free brand can be brewed under contract at a brewery that also brews barley beer, and carry its own certification. Green's states that its beers are brewed at De Proef in Lochristi, Belgium, and certified through the National Celiac Association's Gluten-Free Food Program. · Green's · labs & certifiers
- Competitions with gluten-free categories are where dedicated breweries meet judges. TWØBAYS took gold in the 2025 World Beer Cup's gluten-free category, Green's took gold there in 2014, and ORYZAE took bronze in the International Beer Cup's gluten-free category in 2025. At GABF 2026 the three gluten-free categories went to Orange Bike, The Well In Wellington, Armored Cow, ALT Brew, Otherwise, Holidaily and Departed Soles, and three of those are new to this roster: the circuit is where new gluten-free breweries surface first. · GABF 2026 winners · WBC 2025 winners · IBC 2025 medals
- Dedicated gluten-free breweries collaborate across continents. Ghostfish in Seattle brewed a collaboration version of TWØBAYS's Pacific Ale in 2025. · Washington Beer Blog, 2025
- Brewers and researchers: the company behind Redbridge funds rice brewing research. Anheuser-Busch donated $130,000 through the Anheuser-Busch Foundation to Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers in 2026, among them projects on rice formats in lager and on rice quality for brewing; the announcement does not mention malting. · AAES, 2026 · rice · funders
Who's missing — where this page's coverage runs out
- Contract brewing has one declared example. Bard's beer was brewed under contract for its whole run, and contract production is how most new gluten-free brands reach a shelf; the roster now carries one declared case, Green's brewed at De Proef, but the brewers who took Bard's contract still cannot be named here (a publication restriction). The mode is real; most of its entries are withheld.
- Almost no brewers appear here as people. The roster is overwhelmingly companies. For most of the dedicated breweries listed we have found no published founder or head-brewer name, so the people inside this role remain the least documented part of the page.
- Coverage is mostly North American. Australia (TWØBAYS, Rebellion), Japan (ORYZAE) and Belgium (Green's) are now represented beside Montreal, Dakar and the fonio campaign, but we have found no systematic record of dedicated gluten-free breweries in continental Europe, Asia or Latin America. That is a gap in our sources, not a claim that none exist.
- Operating status is checked when an entry is touched, not on a schedule. The closures above were confirmed on 2026-10-17, and the seven breweries added on 2026-10-20 were listed from their own sites and dated coverage that day; an entry without a recent Verified date may be out of date.
- Gluten-reduced brewers are absent by rule. Breweries making enzyme-treated barley beer are a large share of what a drinker actually meets on a shelf, and none of them are listed, because this site's line excludes them. That is the rule working, not a hole in the map.
- No status here has been verified by us. Gluten-free claims on this page are the breweries' own; this site does not test beer or audit facilities.
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Page established 2026-08-25 · seeded from existing site entries; filled 2026-08-27 · updated 2026-10-20.