<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Here we go with GF beer, round 15. My wife was diagnosed with Celiac about 6-7 months ago. She misses beer more than anything else and, like many others, has been trying to make due with cider. For Christmas, I bought a homebrew starter kit and have spent approximately a month and a half trying to make a GF beer. First, I have to say that Sean Sweeney's site has been invaluable. Here it is: http://www.fortunecity.com/boozers/brewerytap/555/gfbeer/gfbeer.htm. I followed one of his recipes with some minor alterations, and my wife tells me she can't tell the difference in this brew and "real" beer. On the positive side, the ingredients aren't all that expensive. On the downside, it takes a heck of a lot of work to make a good-tasting batch of GF beer. To start with the grains, I'd recommend going to Sean Sweeney's site for instruction on malting GF grains. With that knowledge for starters, you're going to need some basic information on homebrewing methods. I'd recommend buying "The Complete Joy of Home Brewing" by Charlie Papazian and/or using the following web site: http://www.howtobrew.com/intro.html. I tried a buckwheat and quinoa brew in which I steeped the grains and added sugar to the brew. Maybe it was just my ineptitude, but the result was not good. I think you've really got to jump into brewing head-first and mash the GF grains to make genuine beer. Both Papazian and Turner give pretty good detail on what you need to mash. I used a 5-gallon cooler for the mash tun and lauter tun. Everything I needed for mashing, including the cooler, cost about $45-$50. My first batch consisted of the following ingredients (approximate weights): 6 lbs malted corn, 6 lbs malted buckwheat, 1 lb malted quinoa, 2.5 lbs clover honey, 1 lb rice syrup, .5 lb malto-dextrin, Irish moss, and hops (I used Northern Brewer and Cascade). I started to post my brew-day process here and then realized that the details of the brewing process are really too much to post here. However, I'm happy to share my experience with anyone who e-mails me with a request: [log in to unmask] If you're just kind of lukewarm on beer, this is probably not going to be worth the effort. If you really miss good beer, it's a challenging but rewarding experience.