Gluten free beer at Sainsbury's: the full range, and what is actually worth buying

Sainsbury’s sells gluten free beer, and its range is broader than you might expect from a supermarket. As of October 2026 the confirmed core is 9 lines: mainstream lagers, an IPA, a traditional English ale, a Suffolk session IPA new to the shelf, and the Jubel fruit lagers in more formats than before. It also now holds a quiet distinction: it is the only supermarket still listing Stella Artois Gluten Free.

The harder thing to say about it, and the reason this page exists, is that most of what Sainsbury’s sells as gluten free beer started life as ordinary barley beer and had the gluten removed by an enzyme. That is not the same as being naturally gluten free, and for a coeliac the difference matters more than the label suggests.

What Sainsbury’s actually stocks

Updated October 2026: we re-checked the range online. The mainstream core is unchanged and Daura is actually cheaper, with loyalty pricing now doing real work (£5.75 on Nectar). Old Speckled Hen jumped 65p. Jubel has moved from single cans into 4 packs. Adnams Ease Up IPA has appeared at Sainsbury’s, having left Tesco’s listings. The craft and naturally gluten free fringe (Bunny Hop, Green’s, Bellfield) was not showing online, but ranges vary by store, so treat those as check in store rather than gone. Prices checked online in October 2026.

Beer	ABV	Pack	Price (checked October 2026)	How it is made gluten free
Peroni Nastro Azzurro GF	5.0%	4x330ml bottles	£7.75	Gluten removed from barley
Stella Artois Gluten Free	4.0%	4x330ml bottles	£6.25; the only supermarket still listing it	Gluten removed from barley
Daura Damm	5.4%	4x330ml bottles	£6.75, £5.75 Nectar (down from £7.10)	Gluten removed (barley, tests under 6ppm)
BrewDog Punk GF	5.4%	4x330ml cans	£6.60, £5.00 Nectar	Gluten removed from barley
Old Speckled Hen Gluten Free	4.8%	500ml bottle	£2.65 (up from £2.00)	Gluten removed from barley
Adnams Ease Up IPA GF	4.6%	500ml bottle	£2.45 (new to Sainsbury’s listings)	Gluten removed from barley
Jubel Peach	4.0%	4x330ml, also 440ml single and 10x330ml	£6.75 the 4, £15.50 the 10	Naturally gluten free (certified Coeliac UK)
Jubel Grapefruit	4.0%	440ml can	£3.10	Naturally gluten free (certified Coeliac UK)
Jubel Mango	4.0%	4x330ml	£6.75	Naturally gluten free (certified Coeliac UK)

Not showing online in October (ranges vary by store, so check yours rather than writing these off): Bunny Hop Hazy Pale, Green’s Glorious Pilsner, Green’s Golden Ale, and the Scotland-only Bellfield Bohemian Pilsner and Lawless Village IPA (around 15 Scottish stores historically; a check from an English postcode cannot see them).

Our verdict on the range

Mainstream heavy, decent for lager, thin for everything else.

The first four or five products you will encounter at most stores are gluten removed lagers from major brands: Peroni, Stella, Daura Damm, and BrewDog Punk GF. All are fine if gluten removed beer suits you. None of them are remarkable drinks. They exist because those brands have the distribution weight to get onto a supermarket shelf, not because they are the best options in the category.

The more interesting part of the Sainsbury’s range is what sits alongside them. Jubel (3 fruit lager variants, all naturally gluten free and Coeliac UK certified) is a genuinely good product, light and sessionable with real fruit character, and its move into 4 packs makes it better value than the old single cans. Adnams Ease Up IPA at £2.45 gives the shelf a proper session IPA from a heritage Suffolk brewer. Daura Damm tests down to under 6ppm, well below the 20ppm legal threshold, which makes it the standout from the gluten removed lagers if that method is acceptable to you, and at £5.75 on Nectar it is now cheaper here than anywhere else we track.

What is missing is everything else. There is no stout. No porter. No session ale. No wheat beer. The IPAs are BrewDog Punk GF and the Adnams Ease Up. The only cask style is Old Speckled Hen. The whole category, at national level, is effectively lager plus Jubel plus the Purity pale. That is adequate for someone who wants a cold drink from the fridge, but it does not represent gluten free beer as a category.

The naturally gluten free share of the shelf is now effectively Jubel: 3 confirmed lines of it, more if your store still carries Green’s or (in Scotland) Bellfield.

The thing the shelf will not tell you

Most of what Sainsbury’s sells as gluten free beer was brewed from barley. The gluten was then broken down by an enzyme, a process called deglutenisation, until the beer tested below 20ppm, which is the legal threshold for gluten free labelling in the UK and EU. That applies to Peroni GF, Stella Artois GF, Daura Damm, BrewDog Punk GF, Old Speckled Hen GF, and Bunny Hop.

For most people who avoid gluten, that is fine. For people with coeliac disease it is more complicated. The standard ELISA test used to measure gluten in beer has known limitations with the peptide fragments that remain after fermentation. A real number of coeliacs report reactions to these beers even when they test below 20ppm, almost certainly because of residual barley derived proteins the test does not fully capture. Sainsbury’s carries no information on the shelf about this distinction. The label just says gluten free.

The beers that avoid this entirely are the naturally gluten free ones, brewed from grains that never contained gluten in the first place. At Sainsbury’s those are Jubel (confirmed, nationally available, Coeliac UK certified), Green’s Pilsner and Golden Ale (listed but check availability and price in store), and Bellfield (Scotland stores only). We explain the full picture in our guide to gluten removed versus naturally gluten free. If you are coeliac and still deciding which approach to take, start there.

What we would actually buy, and where

From the Sainsbury’s shelf, the honest picks depend on your situation.

If you are coeliac and cautious, reach for the Jubel range. Jubel Peach, Jubel Grapefruit, and Jubel Mango are all certified naturally gluten free, widely stocked, and well made for what they are. At £3.00 to £3.10 a can they are not cheap for a 440ml drink, but the certification is among the most rigorous available. If Green’s is on the shelf and the price seems reasonable, it is worth trying: the Glorious Pilsner is brewed in Belgium from millet, sorghum and rice and is a proper naturally GF lager.

If gluten removed beer agrees with you and you want a lager, Daura Damm is the pick. It tests under 6ppm rather than the legal ceiling of 20ppm, it is a better made beer than Peroni or Stella GF, and on Nectar it is now the cheapest of the premium 4 packs. For a session option, Adnams Ease Up IPA at £2.45 has taken the slot Bunny Hop used to hold; if your branch still has the Purity pale, it remains worth picking up.

The broader truth is that a supermarket is the wrong place to judge gluten free beer. The gluten free lagers and gluten free IPAs that actually define this category, the craft breweries brewing dedicated gluten free ranges from the ground up, the pale ales and stouts that show what the category can do, none of them reach a Sainsbury’s aisle. What you find there is the set of products with enough brand weight or promotional budget to get a national listing.

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