Stoic Brews Alternative<\/a>, Arkansas’s first entirely gluten-free brewery and taproom, is now open in Bentonville.<\/p>\nOwner and head brewer Rebecca Davitt has been gluten-free for nine years. After struggling to find safe options at local breweries, she decided to open her own taproom using no glutenous products.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe only buy from certified gluten-free companies and we don\u2019t manufacture any glutenous products here. We don\u2019t allow it in the facility,\u201d Davitt said.<\/p>\n
Instead of traditional grains like wheat, barley, or rye, Stoic Brews uses alternatives such as millet, buckwheat, corn, quinoa and rice. Every beer, cider, and kombucha is brewed on-site, with the process taking up to four weeks from start to finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Davitt said many customers are surprised to learn the beer is gluten-free.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe actually get a lot of people who say, ‘I couldn\u2019t even tell it was gluten-free’ until we told them much later,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Davitt said the brewery has already made an emotional impact on some visitors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe get reactions from ‘Oh, this is great’ to ‘I haven\u2019t had a beer in 20 years,’ and they\u2019re sobbing,\u201d Davitt said.<\/p>\n
Scott LaFontaine, assistant professor of food science at the University of Arkansas, said rice is becoming a reliable substitute in the brewing industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWith malted rice, you could probably create something that tastes amazing, very similar to what would be a full strength, barley product,\u201d LaFontaine said.<\/p>\n
For Davitt, Stoic Brews is about more than beer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s that feeling of connection,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s just bringing back that nostalgia and that feeling of being like the rest of the population.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stoic Brews opened in Bentonville as Arkansas’s first gluten-free brewery, using alternative beer ingredients. BENTONVILLE, Ark. \u2014 Stoic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4318],"tags":[105,4434,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-251868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114825611912459518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}