Gluten free beer at Asda: the full range, and what is actually worth buying

Asda used to be the price story in supermarket gluten free beer. As of our October 2026 check it is not: Peroni GF has risen to £7.75, matching Tesco and Sainsbury’s rather than undercutting them, and most of the rest of the June range has either gone out of stock or dropped out of Asda’s listings altogether. One confirmed buyable gluten free beer online is a thin offer by any standard.

But there is a hard limit to that story, and it applies to most people reading this: outside Scotland, every beer on the Asda gluten free shelf is gluten removed from barley, not naturally gluten free. Not one. The only exception is three naturally gluten free lines from Bellfield Brewery, stocked in roughly 40 selected Scottish stores since July 2024 and nowhere else. If you are in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland and you need naturally gluten free beer, Asda cannot currently help you.

That is the honest summary. The detail below explains what is there, what it costs (where we can confirm it), and what it means for your shopping.

What Asda actually stocks

Updated October 2026: we re-checked the range online, and the picture has tightened sharply. Only 4 of the June lines still showed, and 3 of those were out of stock or unavailable when we looked: Peroni GF was the one beer confirmed buyable online, now at £7.75, which also ends Asda’s run as the cheapest place for it (Morrisons holds that at £7.50). Daura showed as unavailable, Punk GF and Old Speckled Hen as out of stock. The rest of the June list, Stella GF, San Miguel GF, Cobra GF, Bath Ales Gem, the Free From Beer Co cans and the Daura Märzen, was not showing at all. A shelf can carry what the website does not, but a June list of 11 national lines reading as 1 buyable online in October is a range in retreat.

Beer	ABV	Pack	Status (checked October 2026)	How it is made gluten free
Peroni Nastro Azzurro Gluten Free	5.0%	4x330ml bottles	£7.75, buyable online (was ~£7.47 and the UK’s cheapest; no longer either)	Gluten removed from barley, Coeliac UK certified
Daura Damm	5.4%	4x330ml bottles	£6.75 shown, marked unavailable	Gluten removed (tests under 3ppm, CSIC certified)
BrewDog Punk GF	5.4%	4x330ml cans	£5.34, out of stock at the check	Gluten removed from barley
Old Speckled Hen Gluten Free	4.8%	500ml bottle	£2.65, out of stock at the check	Gluten removed from barley

Not showing online in October: Stella Artois GF, San Miguel GF, Cobra GF, Bath Ales Gem GF, both Free From Beer Co cans and the Daura Märzen. The Scotland-only Bellfield lines could not be checked from an English postcode view, so their roughly 40-store Scottish listing stands as last confirmed in 2024: ring your store.

Our verdict on the range

Decent for mainstream lager. Thin for everything else.

The nationally stocked range is essentially the same set of mainstream deglutenised brands you find in every large UK supermarket: Peroni, Stella Artois, San Miguel, Daura Damm, and BrewDog Punk GF as the IPA. Cobra and Old Speckled Hen add modest coverage across the lager and ale segments. Bath Ales Gem GF is a quieter addition but a reasonable one for the amber ale drinker.

Asda’s genuine point used to be price. That case has weakened: the Peroni GF 4 pack is £7.75 as of October 2026, level with Tesco and Sainsbury’s and above Morrisons, and the well-priced Punk GF at £5.34 was out of stock when we checked. If the October listings reflect the shelves, Asda has gone from the cheapest place for mainstream gluten free lager to the thinnest.

The Scotland-only Bellfield listing is interesting for a different reason. Bellfield is the UK’s first dedicated gluten free brewery, making beer on a fully separate site with no gluten-containing ingredients anywhere in the process. For the coeliac shopper in one of those 40 Scottish stores, having Bellfield on a supermarket shelf is a meaningful thing. But it does nothing for the rest of the country.

What is absent is the broader point. No naturally gluten free options in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland. No stout. No porter. No sour. No independent gluten free breweries beyond Bellfield in Scotland. None of the craft gluten free tier that now exists in the UK, the Thornbridges, Wold Tops, Abbeydales, Brass Castles, and Fierce Beers of the world, reaches an Asda aisle. What you are looking at is the set of mainstream brands large enough to push a gluten free line through a supermarket buying team. That is not the same thing as a representative picture of what gluten free beer can be.

Compared to Tesco (which carries Celia Organic, Hepworth Blonde, and Jubel as naturally gluten free options nationally), Asda is weaker on range depth. The price advantage on core lagers is real, but the ceiling is lower.

The thing the shelf will not tell you

Every beer on the Asda gluten free shelf in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland is gluten removed, also called deglutenised. The Bellfield lines in Scotland are the only exception, and they are the exception that proves the rule everywhere else.

Gluten removed beer starts life as ordinary barley beer. An enzyme, usually Clarex or a similar product, breaks down the gluten proteins until the beer tests below the 20ppm legal threshold for gluten free labelling. Peroni GF, Stella Artois GF, San Miguel GF, BrewDog Punk GF, Old Speckled Hen GF, Cobra GF, Bath Ales Gem GF: all barley, all enzyme treated.

For most people, that is fine. These products carry Coeliac UK certification (where noted above), they test well below the legal limit, and most coeliacs drink them without issue.

The complication is that some coeliacs react to gluten removed beer even when it passes the test. The standard testing method for gluten in liquid struggles to measure the smaller broken fragments left after enzymatic treatment. A real number of coeliacs report symptoms from products that clear the 20ppm threshold, specifically from barley-derived beers where the protein structure has been partially rather than fully removed.

We explain exactly why in our guide to gluten removed versus naturally gluten free. It is the single most important thing to understand before trusting a supermarket gluten free shelf, and Asda’s shelf makes it more relevant than most.

Naturally gluten free beer is brewed from grains that never contained gluten: sorghum, millet, rice, buckwheat, or on a fully segregated site. Bellfield, in Scotland, falls into this category. Nationally at Asda, there is nothing of this kind.

If you are a coeliac who reacts to barley-derived gluten removed beer, Asda currently has nothing for you outside Scotland.

What we would actually buy, and where

From the Asda shelf itself, the honest picks are narrow but clear.

If gluten removed beer suits you and you drink mainstream lager, Peroni Nastro Azzurro Gluten Free is the one dependable buy, a clean, familiar lager, though at £7.75 it is no longer cheaper here than anywhere else. Daura Damm is the more interesting buy for the technically minded: it tests under 3ppm rather than the standard sub-20ppm, which makes it the most thoroughly deglutenised mainstream option on the shelf. If you are in Scotland and your store stocks Bellfield, the Bohemian Pilsner and Lawless Village IPA are the obvious choices, being naturally gluten free on a dedicated site and Coeliac UK certified.

For IPA, BrewDog Punk GF is the only option nationally. It is a gluten free IPA that works as an IPA rather than as a compromise, which is more than can be said for the category in general.

Beyond that, the Asda range runs dry quickly. No gluten free pale ale of note. No darker styles. Nothing from the independent craft breweries that have built genuinely impressive free from ranges in the last five years.

That is the point where a supermarket stop turns into a different kind of shopping. The beer directory covers over 260 gluten free and gluten removed beers across British and international breweries. The breweries section is the place to go when you want to understand who actually makes this category well, rather than who has the distribution budget to reach a supermarket shelf. Use Asda for a convenient four pack of gluten free lager when the price is right. Use the directory when you want to drink more widely.