<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Hi All, I had quite a few responses to my query about Hops being gluten free. My feeling at the end of it all is that hops on it's own is okay. "Hi all. I want to take a herbal remedy which contains hops. Because of it's association with beer, I'm feeling a twinge of doubt. Can anyone please shed some light on this for me please?" To my knowledge hops is from barley. My brother in law home brews his own beer. He grows his own hops for the process. They are some kind of outdoor climbing plant--definitely not a grain. Hi Russell, it's the barley malt that introduces gluten to beer. Hops should be fine. In beer it's the malt used that can harm you, so the Hops are OK. Hops are totally GF unless they are contaminated by gluten during the packing stages. This could happen in a Health Food shop or Home Brew shop, so you need to make sure that you buy from a well informed one. Hops are actually the flowers of a dicoteledonous plant about as far away from wheat as it is possible to get in the plant kingdom. Hops is in the hemp family-not remotely related to grains. But it is close to buckwheat, and I know people who are allergic to both of these, so you may need to watch for allergic reactions after a while. My guess is that it is the barley in beer that's the problem, and that hops are OK. Regards, Russell