On St. Patrick’s Day, everyone is Irish and every Celiac is concerned about gluten free Irish food and gluten free beer. Fortunately, both those items are available in abundance.

Anheuser-Busch markets Redbridge gluten free beer nationally, so you will probably little difficulty finding it.Bard’s Tale Beer is also available. Click on the name to find out what this brew is available. I recently received an e-mail that included the phrase "please tell me that brewing turns the gluten in beer into something else". Sorry about that! Wheat free beer is relatively easy to find, but beer is only gluten free if sorghum, rather than barley, is used in fermentation.

Here are some gluten free recipes that you might wish to try on St. Patrick’s Day: Irish Stew, Irish Soda Bread, or glazed corned beef and brisquette.

RecipeZaar lists 39 recipes listed as both "St. Patrick’s Day" and "Gluten Free".

Published 2/6/09