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

If you want gluten free beer from a supermarket, Tesco remains the best single shop in the country, though the shelf is tighter than it was in the summer. It carries dedicated free from beer fixtures in over 320 larger branches, and gluten free options worked into the free from aisle nearly everywhere else. As of our October 2026 check, 10 lines were confirmed in Tesco’s online listings, with Stella GF and San Miguel GF among the summer names no longer showing.

Tesco sells gluten free beer, and plenty of it. What the shelf edge will never tell you is what almost all of it actually is: gluten removed beer made from barley, not naturally gluten free beer. That distinction is the whole reason this page exists.

What Tesco actually stocks

Updated October 2026: we re-checked the full range online. The core held: Peroni, Daura, Daura 0.0%, Punk GF and the 2 Greene King bottles are all still listed, with price rises on the singles. Stella GF and San Miguel GF were not showing in October, and nor was the fringe of the range (Celia, Hepworth, Adnams, Meantime). Jubel, meanwhile, has expanded into multiple formats. Prices below were checked online in October 2026; Clubcard prices move, treat them as a guide.

Beer	ABV	Pack	Price (checked October 2026)	How it is made gluten free
Peroni Nastro Azzurro GF	5.0%	4x330ml, now also 12x330ml	£7.75 (up from £7.50), £20.35 the 12	Gluten removed from barley
Daura Damm	5.4%	4x330ml	£7.00, £5.50 Clubcard	Gluten removed (tests under 3ppm)
Daura 0.0%	0.0%	4x330ml	£5.00, £4.00 Clubcard	Gluten removed, alcohol free
BrewDog Punk GF	5.4%	4x330ml	£5.35	Gluten removed from barley
Old Speckled Hen GF	4.8%	500ml	£2.65 (up from £2.10)	Gluten removed from barley
Greene King IPA GF	3.4%	500ml	£2.30 (up from £2.10); Tesco is the only store listing it	Gluten removed from barley
Jubel Peach	4.0%	10x330ml	£15.50	Naturally gluten free (brewery reports under 10ppm)
Jubel Lemon	4.0%	330ml single	£2.40, on a 4 for 3 offer	Naturally gluten free
Jubel Mango	4.0%	4x330ml	£6.75	Naturally gluten free
Jubel Mixed Pack	4.0%	8x330ml	£13.50	Naturally gluten free

Not showing online in October (ranges vary by store, so check yours before writing these off): Stella Artois Gluten Free, San Miguel Especial GF, Celia Organic Lager, Hepworth Blonde Organic, Adnams Ease Up IPA GF (now listed at Sainsbury’s instead) and the Meantime GF Pale Ale, which always looked like a range review casualty in waiting. If Stella and San Miguel have genuinely gone, the dependable mainstream core at Tesco is down to Peroni, Daura and Punk GF.

Our verdict on the range

Decent for mainstream lager. Thin for everything else.

If you drink cold lager and you are happy with gluten removed beer, Tesco serves you well, though the lager core shrank over 2026: with Stella GF and San Miguel GF out of the October listings it is Peroni, Daura and Punk GF doing the work, often on promotion. The Daura 0.0% launch in April 2026 was a genuinely useful addition, because a properly low gluten alcohol free lager is a rare thing and Daura tests under 3ppm, far below the legal threshold.

Past that, it falls away fast. One gluten free IPA (BrewDog Punk GF). No pale ale since Meantime dropped out of the listings. No stout. No porter. None of the independent gluten free breweries that actually define this category, the Bellfields and Wold Tops and Abbeydales of the world, make it onto a Tesco shelf. What you are looking at is the set of mainstream brands big enough to push a gluten free line through a supermarket buying team, which is not the same thing as the best gluten free beer in Britain.

The thing the shelf will not tell you

Most of the gluten free beer at Tesco is gluten removed, also called deglutenised. It starts as ordinary barley beer, then an enzyme breaks down the gluten until it tests below the 20ppm legal limit. Peroni GF, Daura, BrewDog Punk GF, Old Speckled Hen GF, Greene King IPA GF: all barley, all enzyme treated.

For most people that is fine. For coeliacs it is less simple. The standard test for gluten in beer struggles to measure the broken fragments left after fermentation, and a real number of coeliacs report symptoms from gluten removed beer that passes the test. We explain exactly why in our guide to gluten removed versus naturally gluten free. It is the single most important thing to understand before you trust a supermarket gluten free shelf.

The beers that sidestep the whole problem are the naturally gluten free ones, brewed from grains that never contained gluten. At Tesco that now means Jubel’s fruit lagers, in more formats than before, with Celia and Hepworth out of the October listings. Jubel is good at what it is, but one brand of fruit lager is not a range.

What we would actually buy, and where

From the Tesco shelf itself, the honest picks are narrow. If you react to gluten removed beer, the Jubel fruit lagers are now the naturally gluten free route; Celia Organic and Hepworth Blonde are worth a look if your branch still has them, but neither was showing online in October. If gluten removed beer agrees with you, Daura Damm is the standout, tested far below the threshold and a genuinely good lager.

But the broader point is that a supermarket is the wrong place to judge gluten free beer by. The best of it, the naturally gluten free pale ales and IPAs, the proper stouts, the independent breweries doing this better than anyone, never reaches a Tesco aisle. That is what our beer directory is for. Use Tesco for a convenient four pack of lager. Use the directory when you want to actually drink well.