Mike's Hard Lemonade

[terri]

Here is the reply I received from Mike's Hard Lemonade.

Thank you for taking the time to contact mike's hard lemonade. Mike's products available in the US are lemon clear malt based ( fermented barley beer malt) beverages. In independent lab analysis mike's products do not contain any traces of gluten protein, however, our products are bottled in multiple sites that produce other malt beverages. We cannot guarantee complete absence of gluten contamination from other products run on the same equipment.

Take care, and keep on enjoying the good things in life,

Sincerely,

Deborah Poth

Consumer Relations Coordinator

Mike's Hard Lemonade, Inc.

dpoth@mikeshardlemonade.com

Beats me how it could be a femented barly beer malt and not have gluten unless they distill it. Sounds too risky for me.

Terri

[lovegrov]

Two things I can think of. First, I have heard but haven't confirmed independently, that the tests can't detect barley "gluten," just wheat. The other is that many of these malt drinks, including beer, probably have a very, very low level of gluten. It's probably there, but might be so low as to be unmeasureable.

richard

[ianm]

I have never had a reaction from Mike's Lemonade or Cranberry or beer for that matter. I have given those up anyway just in case.

[IMWalt]

I was just going to poast a question about Mike's and then found this old post. I live in a small town, and recently one of my neighbors started a "meb's night out". Every Wednesday night we meet at one of the two pubs in town and have a couple drinks. I picked Mike's Lemonade since I fugured lemonade would be OK. So far, I have not had a reaction from it. When I drink a regular beer, I usually have loose stools for a coupl days after. Maybe I have been lucky with it, but so far, so good.

Walt