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Brewers

Who actually brews this beer. The end of the chain and the reason the rest of it exists — and the layer where the industry's real grain preferences show up, whatever the research says.

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; growing.


How to read it — entry rules, and what a listing means

Two kinds of entry. Where a brewery is already described in the research directory, this page carries a pointer — name, role, subjects touched, link to the page that owns the description. Where they are not, this page carries the entry itself. Nothing is described in two places.

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.

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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

— Breweries running gluten-free beers —

Lakefront Brewery — New Grist — Milwaukee. Sorghum, rice, and malted millet, year-round since 2005. · subject: 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

Robert Keifer — homebrewer and author. Described on Homebrewers & Home Maltsters

Seeded 2026-08-25 from entries this site already holds. Growing.

Bodies & gatherings — the associations, competitions and events this role runs through

Not yet mapped. The bodies and gatherings we expect to cover here: the brewers' associations, the competitions that run gluten-free categories, the gluten-free beer festivals, and the homebrew clubs and organizations with a gluten-free focus.

Working with them — how to reach a brewery, and what they can tell you

Not yet written. When it is, it will answer: how to ask a brewery about its process and testing, what a dedicated facility can state that a shared one cannot, what to expect when asking about grain bills, and how a researcher or writer approaches a brewery for information.

How this role connects — documented links to other roles and subjects

No entries yet. Every connection carries its own evidence link — no inferred relationships, no speculation.

Who's missing — where this page's coverage runs out

Not yet assessed. A documented zero is an answer.


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