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Again, many thanks for the responses and here's excerpts of my question
about contact with beer.

*Maybe when you spill it on yourself you accidentally touched it and
licked your fingers. Maybe the hops are very strong over there and even
when it is in the air it affects you.  If you are newly diagnosed, maybe
you are just VERY sensitive.

*Does it have to be the beer, it could be something else like the
cigarette smoke.
I am extremely allergic to cigarette smoke, I find myself having to hold
a hankie over my mouth even if someone passes me in the street smoking.
Sometimes if a person comes to my front door and that person is actually
a smoker, I know and have to step backward.  I cannot let that person in
my home.  Once I had an Avon Representative call and she absolutely reek
of smoke, I had to quickly close the door (I felt ill from this occasion.

*..other people also react to simply touching or smelling gluten (also
yeast, which may be another problem for you, as it is for my son, even if
it is gluten free yeast).
p.s. in America there is a relatively new lotion or cream called Ivarrest
or something like that, which you put on before going outside and it is
supposed to help prevent having a reaction to poison ivy. This leads me
to think that perhaps you can also give your skin a protective layer -
maybe some regular lotion and a little antihistamine cream or even
cortisone cream. It certainly is worth a try in order to save the social
life

*I think you probably are being paranoid about this. You may be reacting
to something in the air at a bar (smoke, germs, other allergens) but I
really doubt if it's related to your Celiac.
I think if you do some independent research you will find that the gluten
must be ingested (eaten) to have an effect. And there is so little gluten
in beer to begin with (none in vodka, I believe) that it seems very
unlikely that you would ingest a significant amount (or any) by a washed
glass or a kiss on the cheek. Even the boyfriend/girlfriend type of
kissing would seem unlikely, maybe unless he had just eaten a piece of
bread and if you are an extremely sensitive celiac, and it's a very deep
kiss....

*Perhaps you have developed an allergy to brewer's yeast.

*beer is not gluten-free but kissing on both cheeks is.
Stay off the beer and keep up the kissing tradition.

*Could it possibly be cigarrette smoke in the pubs making you feel ill? Or
perhaps all the perfumes and colognes?

*You are breathing in all that gluten that is in the air, stay out for a
month and see if it makes a difference

*Is it possible you have an allergy to yeast?

*I would guess that your problem may be real kissing with your BF. See if
you can have him brush his teeth thoroughly before you get going. I've had
this problem on occasion, and tooth brushing handles it. On the other hand,
weird things can happen.

*don't know why, but beer gives me more reaction than any other substance.
I think the alcohol carries the protein bits straight into your blood or
something. And if it goes into your nose, it goes into your blood (i.e.
you CAN get ill just smelling it). Not to mention, the smell of beer, when
you know it CAN make you sick, is not good.

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