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Gluten-Free…for What Ales You

Jacob Gaffney  in Beer , , ,

Man, that is one silly title.

I can’t believe I’m letting stay up there.

Anyway, InterWined spotted an unusual offering at the local Tesco: an Ale that is wheat and gluten free.

Now, granted we know very little about ‘beers’ (trying to learn more) but isn’t wheat a big part of the beverage?

Apparently not so for the Nick Stafford’s Humbleton GFA English Ale (should the ‘a’ in Ale even be capitalised? See, we haven’t even sorted terminology standards yet), which manages to put together a pretty sweet drink without using wheat.

Serious, it’s pretty sweet. As in, there is a lot of sugar.

But it’s not sickly white sugar, more like nice brown sugar. And the drink itself has a gorgeous reddish-brown hue. There is also plenty of citrus, which leans more to orange than, say, to lemon or grapefruit. And, I’m not exactly sure what hops smell like, but this Ale smells a lot like what we think hops probably should smell like.

Therefore, the Humbleton smells like hops.

We think.

Finally, and make what you will of this: the Ale (ale?) also carries hints of mild chilli and fairy liquid.

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