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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.
Page established 2026-08-25 · seeded from existing site entries; filled 2026-08-27.
How to read it — entry rules, and what a listing means
One owner, but the reader never has to leave. The full description of a person or organization lives in exactly one place: the role page owns the person, the subject page owns the work. But a short identity travels with the name wherever it appears: who they are, where they work, and why they are named here, in a sentence or two. You should never have to click somewhere else to find out who someone is.
Organizations sit inside the role they perform. A brewery belongs here alongside the brewers who run it.
Described, never endorsed. A listing is a map reference, not a recommendation, and implies no relationship with this site. Gluten-free status is reported as the brewery states it. This site does not test beer, and dedicated and gluten-reduced are not the same thing.
What qualifies. A public-facing brewery, commercial offering, or documented body of work. Homebrewers are listed only through what they have publicly published or founded, never as private individuals.
Corrections and removals: contact us.
The roster — who brews it
— Dedicated gluten-free breweries —
Ghostfish Brewing Company — Seattle. Brews on rice malt alongside millet and buckwheat. · subjects: rice, millet
Otherwise Brewing — San Francisco. Rice-first; its flagship lager is brewed on rice malt with millet, by the brewery's own account. · subject: rice
Buck Wild Brewing — Oakland, California. Buckwheat, rice, and millet. · subjects: buckwheat, rice, millet
Evasion Brewing — McMinnville, Oregon. Malted rice and millet as primary ingredients. · subject: rice
Burning Brothers Brewing — St. Paul, Minnesota. Grists spanning malted rice, millet, and sorghum. · subjects: millet, rice
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. Builds its beers on millet and quinoa, which makes quinoa a working ingredient in commercial gluten-free beer rather than a laboratory one. · subject: quinoa & amaranth
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
— Breweries running gluten-free beers —
Lakefront Brewery — New Grist — Milwaukee. Sorghum, rice, and malted millet, year-round since 2005. · subject: sorghum
Anheuser-Busch — Redbridge — the sorghum beer of the first US gluten-free wave, which now appears to be out of production. · subject: sorghum
— 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.
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 three 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
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.
Bodies & gatherings — the associations, competitions and events this role runs through
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 HomebrewCon and Learn to Homebrew Day, publishes Zymurgy, and through Brewers Publications put out the category's only book-length treatment. · AHA · 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
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. · IBD · 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
Competitions with gluten-free categories — the working list, with entry guidance, is on our competitions page.
Working with them — how to reach a brewery, and what they can tell you
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.
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. 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
- 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 a dedicated brewery's standing grain bill; 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.
Who's missing — where this page's coverage runs out
- 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 North American. Montreal, Dakar and the fonio campaign aside, we have found no systematic record of dedicated gluten-free breweries in continental Europe, Australia, Asia or Latin America. That is a gap in our sources, not a claim that none exist.
- We have not tracked operating status. Every brewery above is listed from published material; we have not re-checked which are still trading, and a directory that cannot report a closure is incomplete rather than current.
- 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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