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

We went through the gluten free beer range at all eight major UK supermarkets in June 2026, counted what was actually on the shelves, checked how each beer is made gluten free, and compared the prices. Here is the ranking, followed by the thing that matters more than the ranking.

The ranking

1. Waitrose. The clear winner on choice. Around 17 lines from 13 brands, and crucially it is the only supermarket that treats gluten free beer as craft rather than a free from box to tick. Gipsy Hill Bandit, Tempest Modern Helles, Vocation Heart and Soul and Wold Top Against the Grain are all here and largely absent elsewhere. It costs more, and most of the range is still gluten removed, but if you want to drink beyond cold lager this is the shop.

2. Tesco. The best for everyday convenience. Just as broad as Waitrose on paper, in more stores, with dedicated free from beer fixtures in over 320 branches. The range leans mainstream (Peroni, Stella, San Miguel, Daura, BrewDog Punk GF) but it does carry a few naturally gluten free lines and the useful Daura 0.0%. If you want one reliable shop, this is it.

3. Sainsbury’s. A solid all rounder. Ten to thirteen lines, the mainstream lagers covered, and a genuine naturally gluten free option in the Jubel fruit lagers. Not as deep as the top two, but nothing wrong with it.

4. Asda. The price leader. Usually the cheapest on the mainstream gluten removed lagers, and a respectable mainstream spread. The catch is that its only naturally gluten free beers, from Bellfield, are stocked in roughly 40 Scottish stores. South of the border, the Asda shelf is all gluten removed.

5. Morrisons. Thin. The lager quartet plus a few craft lines, and nothing naturally gluten free at all. It covers the basics and stops there.

6. M&S. A surprise this low, given the M&S free from reputation. For beer specifically it stocks just three own label lines, all gluten removed, none naturally gluten free. A narrow range dressed up by a broad reputation.

7. Aldi. Effectively out of the category. Its dedicated free from beer section ran for a year to April 2026 and has now ended, leaving only the odd rotating Williams Bros exclusive. Do not rely on it.

8. Lidl. Bottom, at least in England and Wales. As of June 2026 the only confirmed gluten free beer is Bellfield in selected Scottish stores. Everywhere else, there is nothing to count.

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 eight supermarkets combined, you can count the naturally gluten free lines on two hands: Celia, Hepworth, Wold Top, Jubel, Bellfield. That is the real gap. The supermarkets have decided gluten free beer means cheap deglutenised lager, and stopped there.

So where should you actually buy gluten free beer?

For a convenient four pack of lager, pick the shop nearest you from the top four and you will be fine. Asda if you want it cheapest, Waitrose if you want it best, 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.