The best supermarket for gluten free beer in the UK, ranked

We went through the gluten free beer range at all 8 major UK supermarkets in June 2026 and re-checked every one against their online listings in October 2026. The October pass moved the table around: the summer leader slimmed down, the price leader collapsed, and one supermarket quietly gained its first naturally gluten free beer. One caveat on all of it: a supermarket’s website does not always show everything its shelves carry, so where a range looks cut we say so rather than declare it dead.

Who moved between June and October, and why

Supermarket	June	October	Why it moved
Tesco	2nd	1st	Held its 10 line core and the widest Jubel range while everyone above and below it shrank
Sainsbury’s	3rd	2nd	Gained Adnams Ease Up IPA and Jubel 4 packs, and Nectar prices (Punk GF £5.00, Daura £5.75) became the cheapest route to a 4 pack anywhere
Waitrose	1st	3rd	The craft lines that won it the summer (Gipsy Hill, Tempest, Vocation, Wold Top) vanished from its online listings; if your branch still shelves them it is still the best, so ring before travelling
Morrisons	5th	4th	Thinner overall, but gained Jubel, its first naturally gluten free beer, and the cheapest Peroni GF at £7.50
Asda	4th	5th	Collapsed from 11 national lines to 1 confirmed buyable online, and lost its price lead on the 1 that remains
M&S	6th	6th	Does not sell its beer online, so the June picture stands
Aldi	7th	7th	Still out of the category since the free from section closed in April
Lidl	8th	8th	Still nothing confirmed outside Scotland

The ranking (October 2026)

1. Tesco. Takes the top spot by holding steady while others shrank. 10 lines confirmed in October, dedicated free from beer fixtures in over 320 branches, and the strongest Jubel selection anywhere (peach, lemon, mango, a mixed pack). It lost Stella GF and San Miguel GF from its listings, and prices on the single bottles crept up, but the core of Peroni, Daura, Daura 0.0% and BrewDog Punk GF is the most dependable in the country. If you want one reliable shop, this is it.

2. Sainsbury’s. The steadiest range through 2026 and now the strongest on loyalty pricing: Daura at £5.75 and Punk GF at £5.00 on Nectar are the best 4 pack prices anywhere. It is the only supermarket still listing Stella Artois GF, it picked up Adnams Ease Up IPA, and Jubel is in 4 packs. Nothing wrong with it in June; quietly improved since.

3. Waitrose. The summer champion, demoted with a caveat. The craft lines that won it first place (Gipsy Hill, Tempest, Vocation, Wold Top) were all missing from Waitrose’s October online listings, leaving a confirmed core of Peroni (£8.00, the dearest in Britain), Daura, Punk GF, Jubel’s peach lager and the Lowrise pair. If the craft range survives in branches, Waitrose is still first; ring yours before travelling. On what we could confirm in October, it is third.

4. Morrisons. Still thin, but the 2 best reasons to walk in are new: the cheapest Peroni GF of the big 4 at £7.50, and Jubel’s arrival, which gives Morrisons its first ever naturally gluten free beer. It lost Stella, San Miguel, both Dauras and Punk GF from its listings, so the floor is low. But it is no longer the shop with nothing for a cautious coeliac.

5. Asda. The biggest faller. In June it was the price leader; in October one gluten free beer was confirmed buyable online (Peroni, now £7.75 and no longer cheap), with Daura unavailable, Punk GF and Old Speckled Hen out of stock, and the rest of the range gone from the listings entirely. Scotland’s roughly 40 Bellfield stores remain the footnote that outshines the rest of the estate.

6. M&S. M&S does not sell its beer online, so the June picture stands: 3 own label lines, all gluten removed. A narrow range dressed up by a broad free from reputation.

7. Aldi. Effectively out of the category, and October found nothing to change that: no gluten free claim on any beer in its listings. The free from section closed in April 2026; only rotating Williams Bros exclusives occasionally surface. Do not rely on it.

8. Lidl. Bottom, at least in England and Wales. October’s check found no gluten free beer in Lidl GB’s listings at all. The Bellfield stocking in selected Scottish stores is the one thing worth looking for, and only there.

The thing that matters more than the ranking

Notice what decided most of those places. Not how many lagers each shop stacks. Whether they carry any naturally gluten free beer at all.

Almost every gluten free beer in a UK supermarket is gluten removed: ordinary barley beer with the gluten enzyme treated down below the 20ppm legal limit. Peroni GF, Stella GF, San Miguel GF, BrewDog Punk GF, the Greene King beers, the M&S own label, nearly all of it. For a lot of people that is perfectly fine. For coeliacs it is not the whole story, because the standard test struggles to catch the broken gluten fragments left after fermentation, and a real number of coeliacs report reacting to gluten removed beer that passes. We set out exactly why in our guide to naturally gluten free versus gluten removed.

The beers that remove the doubt are brewed from grains that never contained gluten. Across all 8 supermarkets combined, the naturally gluten free offer has narrowed to essentially one brand in 4 of them (Jubel, at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Morrisons) plus Bellfield in Scotland, with Celia and Hepworth gone from the October listings. That is the real gap. The supermarkets have decided gluten free beer means cheap deglutenised lager plus a fruit lager, and stopped there.

So where should you actually buy gluten free beer?

For a convenient 4 pack of lager, pick the shop nearest you from the top 4 and you will be fine. Sainsbury’s with a Nectar card if you want it cheapest, Morrisons for the cheapest Peroni, Tesco if you want it reliable.

But if you are coeliac, or you simply want to drink properly, the supermarket is the wrong yardstick. The naturally gluten free pale ales and IPAs, the proper stouts and porters, the independent breweries doing this better than any supermarket buyer, are what our beer directory exists to map. Use the supermarket for convenience. Use the directory to drink well.