alcohols - how to find out what's in them?

[kjbrown92]

After contemplating my kids' food intolerances for a while, I decided that maybe I started it, so I went off gluten, dairy, and soy (their biggest 3 offenders). Much to my amazement (after 5 weeks) I have gotten off all of my back pain medicine (which no doctor has ever found a cause for but my rheumatologist gave me the go ahead to check into food intolerances). I am not breastfeeding, so I can drink. But I can't figure out what's safe. On celiac.com, they say that the distilled products don't have gluten, even if they're made from wheat. I've done so well, that I'm scared to try anything new. And of course I don't know if mine is a gluten or a wheat intolerance, which might make a difference. Any advice from anyone?

I guess I have the same question about vinegar. Distilled white, Heinz, is apparently made from corn (DD can't do that), DS can't have rice vinegar, DD also can't have apples (apple cider vinegar), so am I left with white wine vinegar and/or balsamic vinegar? Or does anyone know of any other obscure vinegars.

[tanyalynn]

I decided that maybe I started it, so I went off gluten, dairy, and soy (their biggest 3 offenders). Much to my amazement (after 5 weeks) I have gotten off all of my back pain medicine (which no doctor has ever found a cause for but my rheumatologist gave me the go ahead to check into food intolerances).

Holy moley! Congratulations! Wow.

I have no idea about the alcohols, I just saw this and had to say good job.

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[xekomaya]

Wow. That's amazing. DH found me gluten free beer the other day - Green's. Don't know if that helps at all. It lists the grains its made from on the bottle - millet, buckwheat, rice, and sorghum I think..

ETA: oh yeah and you can make vinegar from a lot of things. google homemade vinegar. Also here is the wikipedia article that lists all the stuff it can be made from (just about everything it seems!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegar

[txtarheel]

I've seen several beers that are gluten free at my local Whole Foods. But, many are filtered with casein and other dairy products. The same can be said for many wines as well - many are fined with either casein, albumin or a fish protein. Manufacturers claim that the residual amount of the potential allergen is gone and I've found that none of them seem to bother my dairy allergy at all, but that's just my experience. We don't do a lot of liquors so I can't help much there...

[mommydancer]

Get drunk once for me, okay?

[lil_miss_understood]

http://gfkitchen.server101.com/GFAlcohol.htm
That may help a little bit.

[changingseasons]

I've tried figuring out alcohols too... to no avail. From what I've read, distilled should be safe, but DD reacted very bad when I had vodka once. I've tried a couple beers, even a gluten free one, and she reacted to that too.

Of course, I just remembered that brewer's yeast came up bad on her (and my) ELISA, so that's probably part of the problem!

ETA: I'm just starting into the world of fermented foods/drinks.... (well, researching them... not actually making any yet). And someone mentioned in another thread that they made some water kefir with grape juice and it tasted like a wine cooler, and got them a little woozy! So maybe that will be my alcohol...

[xekomaya]

Originally Posted by txtarheel

I've seen several beers that are gluten free at my local Whole Foods. But, many are filtered with casein and other dairy products.

That's good to know - I'll have to keep an eye. But Greene's are not cleared that way - gelatine or isinglass(which I thought was fish guts, no? But fish isn't what the OP is concerned with)

Green’s beers DO NOT contain any of the following allergens or products thereof: Gluten, Crustaceans, Eggs, Fish, Peanuts, Soya beans, Milk, Lactose, Nuts, Celery, Mustard, Sesame seeds, Sulphur dioxide and sulphites.

Oh you could also try potato vodka. I think Chopin is a popular brand.

[jocelyndale]

There really shouldn't be any proteins in distilled alcohol or distilled vinegar. That doesn't mean they don't cause some folks problems, but it's unlikely.

I have palm vinegar. Wine vinegars (red, white, sherry, champagne, etc). White balsamic vinegar. Regular balsamic vinegar. Lots of different vinegars out there. Not all vinegars are distilled, so it makes sense to avoid ACV if your child is allergic to apples.