On nutrition: glutens and alcohol

[Clockwork]

I wasn't quite sure where else this could go but I was thinking of food/beverges and Cooking seemed like as good a place as any.

Anyway, I've been eating a paleo-diet meaning that I'm eating very simple foods that our ancestors would have eaten. Vegetables, fruits, salmon, chicken, eggs, nothing fancy. No breads, in fact, my diet is gluten-free not out of neccessity but out of choice. Because my diet is gluten-free it is also extremely low carb but high in protein.

This brings up the question of alcohol to anyone who knows a fair amount about nutrition. Obviously when I get out of this place I'm gonna want a few drinks. Blogger Tim Ferriss suggested tequila with no mixers as a gluten-free alcoholic beverage. Are there any other alcohols out there that would be allowable under this type of diet? What are some good tequilas besides Patron? I'm pretty sure that Jose Cuervo is liquified giraffe anus with a dash of orangutan butt.

(When I say "diet" I don't mean diet in like a South Beach or Weight Watchers sense, I simply mean that paleo-dieting is a lifestyle choice like vegetarian or vegan is a lifestyle choice.)

 

[West Texas]

Dude, has anyone told you lately that you are just weird?

 

[MR Redneck]

 

[Clockwork]

Dude, has anyone told you lately that you are just weird?

Whats weird about that?

 

[West Texas]

Whats weird about that?

Ok, now you're scaring me...

 

[dobarker]

Any Tequila thrown in the ice box and brought down to a consistency of warm syrup goes down smooth.

 

[Clockwork]

You mean ice it up so it's thicker?

 

[navyguy]

Here ya go.

Dulce Vida is a unique, 'muy fuerte' 100 proof organic blue agave tequila - National tequila | Examiner.com

 

[Rum Runner]

Gluten Free Alcohol

 

[dobarker]

You mean ice it up so it's thicker?

Yes sir indeed. Throw it in the freezer for about 2 hours and enjoy.

 

[Clockwork]

Gluten Free Alcohol

Wow, that's a big list. I had thought that most alcohols would have glutens due to grains/wheat and such but it looks like I can still enjoy my Ciroc vodka (of which I have had a bottle freezing for nearly six months now).

You guys are great, thanks for all the input!

 

[MR Redneck]

Dang man, you didnt know takillya isnt made form grain.
Its made from the Blue Agave plant.

 

[Clockwork]

Dang man, you didnt know takillya isnt made form grain.
Its made from the Blue Agave plant.

Yeah. I knew that. >_> Which is why Tim Ferriss's advice made sense to me.

 

[Texas1911]

Vodka is the purest of all the spirits, it's distilled a number of times. Scotch and Whiskeys aren't too bad either, they derive from barley, but the grain is malted first, which extracts the sugars from the protein (gluten) and other insoluble product. The sugar water is known as "worts" and is then fermented. Ultimately there should be little gluten in the final product, if any.

 

[Texas42]

My wife, a registered dietian, came up with Sake off the top of her head (since its made from rice). And really probably most liquors.

You'd want to avoid beer. . . . but why?

Unless you have celiac disease . . . . . Nothing wrong with glutton. People have been eating it for thousands of years.

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

Yes sir indeed. Throw it in the freezer for about 2 hours and enjoy.

just sit outside in this weather and enjoy