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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Epic's Glutenator

After a half a year of formulating and reformulating, Epic Brewing Co. Has finally come up with a gluten free beer that will appeal to those who can and cannot drink regular barley based beer. And I think this may be one of Glutenators greatest strengths. One of the greatest strengths, the dedication to make it taste like a common barley ale without the irreplaceable barley.

Most gluten free beers are sorghum based. This tends to give the beer a cider taste, reminiscent of a wine or sake. This one gets it's base from sweet potato and millet which should provide a more "full bodied mouth feel"

Glutenator is tawny in color with a nose of piney hops and yams. The flavor is mostly sweet grains with a clean, sorghum-free, lightly hoppy finish.

It will be bottled this week, and should be in the cold cases on Friday, March 9. It will be in Epic's standard 22-ounce bottle will cost $5.89.

Cheers!

4 comments:

Matt M. said...

I get requests for good Gluten free recommendations all the time. I hope it is good!

Anonymous said...

Was this a collaboration beer? Snake River Brewing released The Glutenator on Feb 2nd.

http://www.snakeriverbrewing.com/the-glutenator/
http://www.snakeriverbrewing.com/the-glutenator-2/

Mikey said...

It's not a collaborative effort. I have a feeling lawyers are already on the case.

Matt M. said...

So my gf and I tried this. It is far better than the sorghum beers I have had before, but not as good as most of EPIC's other beers. Also, both times we drank this we had bad hangovers the next day.