screw that gluten free crap- drink good honest beer - enjoy it and move on. Just don't go nuts. And anytime you feel human and need to cheat- always use the real thing, not some cheap fake alternative product. Eat it, get it over, pay the price and move on.

Haha everyone knows beer doesn't count!.. chiill. Happiness is part of health y'know.

What about Cider? There are so many on good boutique ones on the market now. Might be a good alternative?

If you're a beer lover like me who also HATES wine, see if you can get your hands on some mead. It's pretty hard to find (at least here in San Diego, CA).

I have learned to brew my own mead. It's really easy and tastes incredible. You can use any type of fruit juice that you want. Just use 3 lbs of honey per gallon of liquid. I like to make pomegranate mead with equal parts pomegranate juice and white grape juice

I say if you feel like a beer, have a beer- just not six. \ I am a wine lover myself though, and I feel like a nice, dry, robust red is probably the healthiest go of it- lots of info out there suggesting it's good for the heart, particularly for women. Not as carb-y as beer, and you can't exactly slowly sip a nice glass of tequila with your rare steak (well, maybe you can, but not me personally).

But as long as it's in moderation, don't stress. You could be ultra paleo and set to live to 1000 and get hit by a bus tomorrow.

FWIW, I have an occasional beer & even though I am gluten-intolerant, I have no symptoms, if I have just 1 or 2 a week. Just one bite of bread is a problem for me, though! YMMV.

Both wine & beer seem to help my digestion, though maybe that's psychological?

Everytime I miss my Duchesse or Oude Gueuze, I fire up Lustig's video and review what alcohol does to the liver. . . I do miss my beautiful beautiful Belgians.

If you click on my name, you’ll see my stance on this issue. =p This won’t be popular, but my opinion—even if I didn’t like beer—is that for autoimmune issues (which is why I went Paleo), O6 fats can sometimes be a more important factor than gluten. Not that gluten is innocuous, but I can handle a burger a thousand times better than gluten-free asian food stir fried in a metric ton of vegetable oil. Hell, too many cruciferous vegetables seems to be worse for me than gluten.

If I drink too much beer the combination of alcohol and gluten wrecks my system, but if I drink a reasonable amount and only drink a few days a week I seem to fare just as well as when I completely abstain. If you find it doesn’t do you too much harm, I say you can keep at it as long as you treat it as a cheat; in fact, I’ve found that if anything, my love of craft beer caused me to go stricter on Paleo. Doesn’t hurt that the craft beer movement also tends to love things Paleos love such as local ingredients.

And don’t go the gluten-free beer route. Those are awful. The DFH Tweason'ale is the only thing I can stand, but it doesn’t taste remotely like beer – more of a bubbly fruity drink.

Having a beer or 2 probably won't do anything to you. But, it could. You don't know until you experience it yourself.

So, I say... Enjoy a beer or 2! Nothing more. Pay attention to how you feel and go from there.

Since beer is a fermented drink its far easier on our digestive system compared to regular ole grain foods like bread.

make your own. i'll help give you some recipes if you're interested. i make a batch every couple of weeks

Life isn't the same without Arrogant Bastard... but, through my experimentation over the last year I've decided that the only rule I can NEVER break is the gluten thing.

You may want to see how you react personally, and decide if the pleasure is worth the trade off.

Unless you're in the middle if like a 30 day detox have a beer! Have a few the way you would in the past. Obviously not at every meal and not so many you're getting drunk. And for the record the grains in beer have been soaked and fermented down one side to the next so gluten is the last of your worries. Forget the "gluten" free crap. I'm gluten sensitive and find I can drink a nice high quality beer with no issues. But again I treat like I would sweets. It's a special treat.

I too love beer and will have one from time-to-time. Because it makes me feel congested and unwell the next day, I stick to just one and save it for special occasions, such as new releases from my favorite breweries or a new beer I've never seen or tried. Other than that, I stick to ciders to get that fizzy deliciousness, which can be hard in the winter, winter is beer season for me since I love stouts and porters.

I bought gluten free beer for superbowl since all our snacks were paleo and i didn't want to ruin it too much. i drank the whole 6 pack, felt nothing but pretty crappy for downing 6 beers. but i noticed that nothing really gives me the buzz i used to get. i just feel shitty the next day. does this happen to anyone else? my bf bought me patron tequila since i read from robb wolf that it was the best drink to have once in a while. literally took shot after shot and nothing. like i said, i just feel like complete crap the next day.

Two Brothers Brewing- Prairie Path -a conventionally brewed beer that uses an enzyme that prevents chill haze and also happens to denature gluten. They just got tested by FDA at 5ppm gluten. The new packaging that markets it as gluten free isn't out yet , but all Prairie Path is well under the 20ppm required to be labeled gluten free. Taste is like REAL BEER, I'd put the flavor around the wheel house of Fat Tire or Bass .

Beer was at a stage in human development the primary food source as water was not always the cleanest, where as beer production kills off the germs and makes them taste awesome. Im drinking beer and doing Paleo, hopefully, its not a bad thing

Well you can do what I did: stop drinking it! I used to love beers. I live in the microbrew capital of the world and used to treat good beers like fine wines. But I noticed that as I cleaned up my diet even small amounts of beer made me really sick. Then I read about all the phytoestrogens in hops (and IPAs were my favorite!). Look around at all the men who really like beer. They all have man boobs and womanly shoulders and hips. That was enough to keep me away from beer for the last 4 years and I've never thought of going back.

Life style and goal choice. If you enjoy it a lot, as I do, and it doesn't screw you up when you enjoy it I say enjoy away in moderation. I love enjoying a locally brewed hoppy IPA while cooking dinner and I don't notice any negative feels from it. I find it very relaxing as well. One or two once or twice a week is a lot different than 5-6 beers...5-6 days of week of course.

If you're training for the Crossfit Games or something then you'll obviously have to re-evaluate your choices, priorities, goals, and consumption of beer.

BTW - the gluten free beer alternative as a solution to me is like someone wanting to enjoy home made fudge brownies once a week but you go out and buy fat free and sugar free snackwells or something. Doesn't quite meet the mark or scratch the itch if you follow me.

Don't forget the 80/20 maxim.

I mostly drink Guinness which has alot of iron so not totally empty calories although more iron than most people need myself included. My perpective on it is that I have a number in mind for carbs so as long as I fit the beer into that then it's not a big problem since it's the only non-"safe"-starch that I consume and it's only about 2-3 a week on average. I probably absorb more toxins biking in traffic or drinking fluids stored in plastic containers. I will sometimes put a beer into my 30-minute carb backloading window post workout.

I still drink beer. It's the only grain-product I still consume.

"Will indulging in beer ruin what I have been trying to do for my nutrition?"

Depends on what you mean by "indulging". One or two here and there, sure, no problem for most people. 30 or 40? Whole other deal.

Usually if you want to get the ultra-low body fat or reduce lots of weight rapidly, you need to chop out a lot of things like this because it slows you down. If you're maintaining, it's less of an issue for reasonable numbers.

It really depends on your personal goals and how your body reacts to it though. You'll need to keep an eye on things and adjust depending on your results and your goals.