Gluten Free Home Brewing Blog
Low & Non-Alcohol via Cold Extraction
Each year around this time, I receive emails, phone calls and text messages asking about brewing low alcohol and/or no alcohol beer. For many years I referred folks to an article from Brew Your Own Magazine titled 'Brew a Great Non-Alcoholic Beer'. This article was removed (or relocated) from their website at an unknown time. But essentially, it covered the process of removing alcohol post fermentation by cooking off the alcohol from the beer, like cooking off the alcohol when using wine while cooking dinner. The major drawback to this process is that it also removes most of the flavor.
Since March 2023, I have referred folks to Zach Griffin's post on the Zero Tolerance Facebook page. The post has been helpful for those GFHBers that were interested in exploring the process themselves. However, many of our customers would prefer a tried and true method that yields repeatable results. While others would prefer a LA or NA recipe kit with step-by-step instructions.
If you subscribe to our newsletter then you are probably familiar with my health challenges over the past couple years, in particular, this past year. I have brewed exactly once in 2024 when I was developing the Uprooted Fruited Sour extract recipe kit. I have tried several times this year to work on the LA/NA project, but I have focused most of my time outside of work on healing and getting healthy. Fortunately, I may be closer to understanding my specific health condition then at any point in my life. So I have set a date, Monday December 30th, after I return from our holiday vacation, to finally brew what I hope will be a flavorful and robust LA/NA homebrew.
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