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

If you want gluten free beer from a supermarket, Tesco is the best single shop in the country. It carries more lines, in more stores, than anyone else: 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 June 2026 that comes to roughly 17 lines across 10 brands.

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

Here is the range as we found it in June 2026. Supermarket stock rotates and prices move with promotions and Clubcard, so treat the prices as a guide, not gospel.

Beer	ABV	Pack	Price (approx, June 2026)	How it is made gluten free
Peroni Nastro Azzurro GF	5.0%	4x330ml	around £7.50	Gluten removed from barley
Stella Artois Gluten Free	5.0%	4x330ml	around £6.00	Gluten removed from barley
San Miguel Especial GF	5.4%	4x330ml	around £5.95	Gluten removed from barley
Daura Damm	5.4%	4x330ml	around £7.00	Gluten removed (tests under 3ppm)
Daura 0.0%	0.0%	4x330ml	around £5.00	Gluten removed, alcohol free
BrewDog Punk GF	5.4%	4x330ml	around £5.35	Gluten removed from barley
Old Speckled Hen GF	4.8%	500ml	around £2.10	Gluten removed from barley
Greene King IPA GF	3.4%	500ml	around £2.10	Gluten removed from barley
Celia Organic Lager	4.5%	330ml	varies	Naturally gluten free
Hepworth Blonde Organic	5.0%	500ml	varies	Naturally gluten free
Adnams Ease Up IPA GF	4.6%	500ml	varies	Gluten removed from barley
Meantime GF Pale Ale	n/a	330ml	varies	Gluten removed (Tesco exclusive)
Jubel Peach	4.0%	330ml	around £2.40	Naturally gluten free
Jubel Grapefruit	4.0%	330ml	around £2.40	Naturally gluten free
Jubel Lemon	4.0%	330ml	around £3.00 (440ml)	Naturally gluten free

A few of these come and go. Hepworth and Adnams have both shown as out of stock online in recent months, and the Meantime pale ale is a Tesco own exclusive that may not survive a range review. The four mainstream lagers (Peroni, Stella, San Miguel, Daura) are the dependable core.

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. Four big lager brands, reliably stocked, 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). One pale ale (Meantime). 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

Roughly seven in ten of the gluten free beers at Tesco are gluten removed, also called deglutenised. They start as ordinary barley beer, then an enzyme breaks down the gluten until it tests below the 20ppm legal limit. Peroni GF, Stella GF, San Miguel GF, BrewDog Punk GF, Old Speckled Hen GF, the Greene King beers: 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 is a short list: Celia, Hepworth, and the Jubel fruit lagers. Good beers, but three options 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, reach for Celia Organic or Hepworth Blonde, the two naturally gluten free lagers, and the Jubel fruit lagers if you want something lighter. 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.