Brewery Profile
Polly's Brew Co
Mold, Flintshire, North Wales · Founded 2018
Independently UKAS-tested below 10ppm and retested every six months, with the full method on record. A tropical, pine-forward gluten-free pale.
Gluten reduced Pine is brewed gluten-free by Polly's, not from alternative grains.
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A North Wales brewery in Mold, founded in 2018 and among the most highly rated in the UK. Its gluten-free pale, Pine, is brewed gluten-free in house rather than from substitute grains: wheat left out, a fungal endopeptidase enzyme, and a longer boil to cut the protein load. Independent UKAS-accredited lab testing puts it below 10ppm, retested every six months. The beer itself is built on Idaho 7 and Mosaic, tropical and fruit-forward with the dank, resinous pine finish that gives it its name.
GF approach: Pine is brewed gluten-free by Polly's, not from alternative grains. Wheat is left out, and the recipe uses a fungal endopeptidase enzyme, Murphy & Son's Brewers Clarity, with an extended 60-minute boil to lower the protein load and help the enzyme work. The grain bill is 95% extra pale malt and 5% malted oats. Every batch is tested at an independent UKAS-accredited lab and repeatably comes back below 10ppm, the lab's limit of quantification, comfortably under the 20ppm gluten-free threshold. The recipe passed three sequential tests before launch and is retested every six months, with any recipe change triggering three fresh tests, so it is kept deliberately stable.
Awards
- Described as 'comfortably the highest rated brewery in Wales, and amongst the most well-regarded in the UK as a whole' (brewery own claim; no named award body or year)
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