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 June 2026 that comes to somewhere between 10 and 13 lines depending on the store, spanning mainstream lagers, a hazy pale ale, an IPA, a traditional English ale, fruit lagers, and a handful of genuinely craft options. It is not thin.

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

Here is the range as researched in June 2026. Sainsbury’s product pages block automated fetching so prices come from Trolley.co.uk and published sources. Treat them as a guide. In store prices may differ, and stock rotates.

Beer	ABV	Pack	Price approx June 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	Gluten removed from barley
Daura Damm	5.4%	4x330ml bottles	£7.10	Gluten removed (barley, tests under 6ppm)
BrewDog Punk GF	5.4%	4x330ml cans	£6.60	Gluten removed from barley
Old Speckled Hen Gluten Free	4.8%	500ml bottle	£2.00	Gluten removed from barley
Bunny Hop Hazy Pale	3.4%	500ml bottle	£2.00	Gluten removed from barley
Jubel Peach	4.0%	440ml can	£3.00	Naturally gluten free (certified Coeliac UK)
Jubel Grapefruit	4.0%	440ml can	£3.00	Naturally gluten free (certified Coeliac UK)
Jubel Mango	4.0%	440ml can	£3.10	Naturally gluten free (certified Coeliac UK)
Green’s Glorious Pilsner	4.5%	330ml bottle	varies	Naturally gluten free (millet, sorghum, rice)
Green’s Golden Ale	~4.5%	330ml bottle	varies	Naturally gluten free (millet, sorghum, rice)
Bellfield Bohemian Pilsner	4.5%	330ml bottle	~£2.00	Naturally gluten free (dedicated GF brewery)
Bellfield Lawless Village IPA	4.5%	330ml bottle	varies	Naturally gluten free (dedicated GF brewery)

A few caveats worth knowing. Bellfield is only stocked in around 15 Sainsbury’s stores in Scotland: Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, East Kilbride, Hamilton, Irvine, Kirkcaldy, Livingston, and Prestwick. It is not a national listing. Green’s current prices could not be verified through Trolley.co.uk in June 2026; the products are listed on sainsburys.co.uk but treat stock as check in store.

Old Speckled Hen Gluten Free and Green’s Golden Ale are not currently in our directory, so there are no further links to follow for those two.

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 (three fruit lager variants, all naturally gluten free and Coeliac UK certified) is a genuinely good product, light and sessionable with real fruit character. Bunny Hop from Purity Brewing is well made for a 3.4% hazy pale ale and one of the better session options in any supermarket. 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.

What is missing is everything else. There is no stout. No porter. No session ale. No wheat beer. The only IPA is BrewDog Punk GF. 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 proportion is better than most supermarkets, inflated by Jubel’s three SKUs counting as separate lines. Taken at face value roughly a third to just over half of the listed products are naturally GF, depending on whether Bellfield and Green’s are available in your store.

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, and it is a better made beer than Peroni or Stella GF at a comparable price. Bunny Hop from Purity Brewing is the session option worth knowing about: a Clarex treated hazy pale at 3.4% that is accessible and better value per bottle than anything in a multipack.

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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