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Suppliers, Distributors & Equipment
Two roles share this page because they answer the same question from different sides: what can you actually get. A brewery's grain bill is constrained by what its distributor stocks, and its process is constrained by whether the kit can mill a grain the size of a poppy seed or lauter a mash with no husk in it. Neither layer produces research, and both shape outcomes more than most research does.
Page established 2026-08-25 · seeded from existing site entries; growing.
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. Distributors, retailers, ingredient suppliers and equipment makers all belong here.
Described, never endorsed. A listing is a map reference, not a recommendation, and implies no relationship with this site. Product and gluten-free claims are reported as the supplier states them.
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The roster — who supplies and equips
— Gluten-free homebrew supply —
Gluten Free Home Brewing (glutenfreehomebrewing.com) — the homebrew layer's hub, wearing several roles at once: retailer, educator, recipe and data publisher, and field press. As a supplier it is a dedicated gluten-free homebrew shop — "beer brewing is all we do," independent since 2010, per its own site — carrying gluten-free base, caramel, and roasted malts, extract and all-grain kits, and brewing enzymes (Ceremix® Flex and Ondea® Pro among them) from the same families this site's protocols use. What it publishes (the tutorials, the hosted home-malting guide, the recipe library, and the community-generated measurements) is catalogued on the practitioner wing rather than repeated here. The shop · what it publishes, on the practitioner wing · Verified 2026-08-25
Northern Brewer — United States. General homebrew and small-scale supplier carrying the full range of the yeast strain houses, and the practical route by which most gluten-free homebrewers obtain yeast. · yeast and fermentation · the catalog
— Grain, malt and ingredient trade —
RahrBSG — United States. Brewing supply house that sells Terra Ingredients fonio in 50-pound bags as an unmalted, pre-gelatinized grain, and lists flaked torrefied maize for brewers. · fonio · the maize listing
Terra Ingredients — Minneapolis, Minnesota. An AgMotion subsidiary that built a fonio processing and dehulling facility in Dakar with a local partner and runs final processing through a GFSI-certified US affiliate. · fonio
Yolélé Foods — United States. Pierre Thiam's company, which put fonio onto national grocery shelves and co-built a USAID-funded fonio value chain with Mali Shi. · fonio
Nexus Ingredient — MillMalt. A commercial sorghum extract line marketed to gluten-free breweries as fermentables, enzymes and flavor positioned as a barley-malt replacement. · sorghum
The Teff Company (Maskal Teff) — Idaho. The US teff anchor, founded by Wayne Carlson, growing and marketing the grain domestically from seed originally sourced through the USDA collection. · teff
Bob's Red Mill — United States. Stone-ground teff flour and whole-grain teff distributed through mainstream US grocery, teff's national-retail presence. · teff
Minn-Dak Growers — Grand Forks, North Dakota. The major US buckwheat handler and processor, and the specialty-grain company at the center of the northern plains buckwheat trade, export channel included. · buckwheat
Riceland Foods — Stuttgart, Arkansas. A farmer-owned cooperative of 5,500 members described as the world's largest rice miller and marketer, handling over 2.5 million metric tons of grain a year. · rice
Crisp Malt / Micronized Food Products (MFP) — supplier of flaked torrefied rice, pre-gelatinized for direct mash use, which moves the gelatinization step out of the brewhouse and into the supplier's process. · process and equipment
Ardent Mills — North America. A major flour miller selling quinoa flour and multigrain blends, and the acquirer of the quinoa operations of California importer Andean Naturals. · quinoa and amaranth
— Enzyme houses, and the channel that carries them —
Novozymes (Novonesis) — Denmark. The industry's largest enzyme house, with a named brewing portfolio spanning high-temperature alpha-amylase, amyloglucosidase, fungal alpha-amylase and multi-enzyme cereal blends. · external enzymes
dsm-firmenich — Netherlands/Switzerland. Maker of Brewers Compass, an enzyme blend for brewing with 20–100% unmalted barley and other raw materials, and of Brewers Clarex, a gluten-reduction enzyme. · external enzymes
IFF (formerly DuPont/Danisco) — United States. Brewing enzymes including the Amylex line, reaching US craft brewers through exclusive distribution. · external enzymes
Gusmer Enterprises — United States, founded 1918. Brewing supplier and IFF's exclusive US brewing-enzyme distributor, the channel through which a US craft brewery actually buys these products. · external enzymes · the method page that uses it
— Yeast and culture supply —
Lallemand Brewing — Canada/Denmark. The dry-yeast major, publishing strain technical data sheets with attenuation ranges and nutrient guidance. · yeast and fermentation
White Labs — a yeast house that also sells Ultra-Ferm, an amyloglucosidase in 10 mL vials: the added-enzyme layer scaled to a five-gallon batch and sold beside the yeast. · external enzymes
— Equipment and plant —
ABE Equipment — United States. Vessel, control and process-system supplier serving brewing and distilling from the same catalog. · distilling
BrewBids — United States. Listings market through which brewing and distilling plant changes hands secondhand. · distilling · the market
— Sourcing guidance —
Where to buy, and how to qualify a supplier, lives on Where to get sorghum malt and Sourcing sorghum farmer-direct.
Entries are carried from the research directory pages linked beside them, where each one's sources and verification date live. Growing.
Bodies & gatherings — the trade bodies and shows this role runs through
Master Brewers Association of the Americas — United States. The working brewers' technical body, and the channel through which supplier application science reaches breweries. · external enzymes · MBAA
The MBAA Annual Conference — the association's technical meeting, where enzyme and ingredient suppliers present application science to the people who dose it. · external enzymes
The Craft Brewers Conference — United States. The industry's annual trade floor, where supplier booths meet craft brewing. · external enzymes · the conference
Brewers Association — United States. The craft brewing trade association, whose Great American Beer Festival judges dedicated gluten-free categories. · corn · Brewers Association
Craft Maltsters Guild — United States. The trade organization of the craft malting movement the dedicated gluten-free malthouses operate in; runs Craft Malt Month. · internal enzymes · the Guild
The Craft Malt Conference — the Guild's annual meeting, and where a gluten-free malt specification would first meet the people who would have to make it. · process and equipment
Enzyme Technical Association — United States. The industry association of enzyme producers. · external enzymes · the association
AMFEP — Europe, founded 1977. The Association of Manufacturers and Formulators of Enzyme Products, the enzyme industry's standing interlocutor with EFSA on food-enzyme regulation. · external enzymes · the association
Corn Refiners Association — United States. The wet-milling industry's trade body, the voice of the layer that turns corn into brewing syrup. · corn · CRA
US Grains Council — United States. The export-market organization the state corn boards fund. · corn · the council
Commodity Classic — United States. The annual convention and trade show of the corn, wheat, soybean and sorghum industries: one gathering serving two of this site's grains. · corn · Commodity Classic
The Brewers of Europe — Brussels, Belgium. The trade body the European Brewery Convention merged into in 2007, and the route by which analytical and sensory technical work reaches European labeling and ingredient policy. · process and equipment
The Chartered Institute of Brewers & Distillers — United Kingdom. Formerly the IBD; the professional body whose Journal of the Institute of Brewing carries much of this site's enzyme and process literature. · distilling
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) — United States. The agency with authority over most beer labeling here, and the reason "gluten-free" and "gluten-removed" are separate claims a supplier's customer has to get right. · testing and certification
Working with them — how a brewer buys, and what to ask
If you are buying grain, start at Source grain, then Where to get sorghum malt and Sourcing sorghum farmer-direct for the routes that actually exist.
If you are qualifying a supplier, the documentation to require and the acceptance gates to apply are on supplier qualification and grain source and acceptance, with the paperwork itself covered by reading a malt certificate of analysis.
If you sell grain or malt, the lot information this site asks suppliers to publish, and how to be listed, are on list your grain and the lot reporting standard.
If you are buying at homebrew scale, sourcing the ingredients covers what to buy and where, and malthouses that run gluten-free covers who makes the malt.
Before you assume the kit will cope, equipment for the process sets out what these grains demand, and crush profile and wort separation are the two questions to put to a mill or vessel supplier first.
If a gluten-free claim is attached to it, read getting certified gluten-free, gluten testing methods, and, for the yeast side specifically, yeast supplier gluten-free statements.
How this role connects — documented links to other roles and subjects
- This role is where a maltster's output becomes a brewer's option. A malthouse can make gluten-free malt and a brewer never see it, because the distributor's catalog is the actual menu. The malthouses are on maltsters; what reaches a shelf is here.
- Growers reach brewing through handlers, not directly. The processors and specialty-grain companies on this page are the step between a field and a brewhouse, which is why growers and this page have to be read together.
- Breeders sit upstream of the whole chain. Private seed companies decide which varieties are available to grow before any of this begins: see breeders.
- The enzyme houses employ the scientists. The application literature this site's protocols rest on was written in part by people working for the producers listed above, which is why the same names appear on researchers and in the external enzymes wing.
- Enzyme supply decides which mash is available to you. A protocol is only reachable if the enzyme it names can be bought in the size you need. The gap between The Reliable Mash at production scale and at homebrew scale is a distribution gap, not a science one.
- The mill and the wort separation route are one decision, made at purchase. Choose a hammer mill and you have chosen mash filtration; choose a roller mill and you have chosen to build a filter bed that these grains cannot supply. Both live on crush profile and wort separation.
- Pre-gelatinized ingredients move process out of the brewhouse. Flaked torrefied rice and pre-gelatinized fonio are supplier decisions that remove a cereal cooker from a brewer's capital plan, an equipment question answered by an ingredient purchase.
- A supplier's gluten claim is only as good as the test behind it. Every claim on this page is reported as stated; verifying one is the work of labs and certifiers.
- Shared equipment is a supply-chain problem before it is a cleaning problem. What a facility already runs decides what it can honestly sell, which is why dedicated equipment and facilities belongs to this role as much as to the brewer's.
- The homebrew layer buys from a different market than the production layer. One dedicated retailer serves the category at five-gallon scale while the production layer buys through general brewing supply: the split that homebrewers and home maltsters documents from the other side.
- Used plant is where small producers solve capital. Brewing and distilling equipment changes hands through shared listings, which makes the secondhand market a real supply channel rather than a footnote: see distilling.
- What a distributor stocks becomes what the category is understood to be. Availability shapes the public story as much as the beer does, which is the link between this page and writers and educators.
Who's missing — where this page's coverage runs out
- A dedicated gluten-free supplier at production scale. We have found one retailer built specifically for this category, and it serves homebrew volumes. Every production-scale supplier on this page serves gluten-free brewing as part of a wider business.
- US sorghum malt supply. As our sorghum directory records, sorghum malt is barely being made or provided at commercial scale in the United States right now, which means the roster above cannot list the suppliers this site's own protocols most need.
- Equipment built for huskless grain. We have found no mill, false bottom, or separation system marketed specifically for sorghum, millet or the pseudocereals; every equipment entry here is a general brewing supplier whose kit was designed around barley.
- A body of any kind for gluten-free brewing supply. We have found no trade association, standards group, or trade show dedicated to gluten-free brewing ingredients or equipment. The topic convenes inside the general brewing and enzyme-industry bodies listed above.
- Everywhere that is not North America or Europe. The roster is US-heavy with a European enzyme tier, which reflects the sources we have found rather than where gluten-free brewing supply exists. Corrections welcome.
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