The question most people ask about gluten-free beer is whether it tastes like beer. The Gluten-Free Dry Hop Lager from g Green / Brunehaut answers that question in the most direct way possible: it is pale gold, dry-hopped for citrus aroma, clean in body, and 4.1% ABV — a lager that leads with what it is rather than what it avoids. Brewed in Rongy, in the Hainaut province of Belgium, it is a certified gluten-free beer built to work as an everyday lager rather than a specialist accommodation. If you are Belgian and living in Tokyo and someone at your table cannot drink standard barley-based beer, this is the can that solves the problem without asking that person to drink something that tastes like a concession.
Rongy’s citrus-hopped gluten-free lager
g Green / Brunehaut is based in Rongy, Hainaut, in the French-speaking south of Belgium, with the gluten-free range developed in the 2010s. Brunehaut is a family brewery with a regional history, and the g Green label represents its dedicated gluten-free production — beers brewed and certified to gluten-free standards across multiple styles, from the sessionable Dry Hop Lager to the stronger Double Ale. The range was built on the premise that gluten-free drinkers should not have to choose between certification and flavour.
The Dry Hop Lager is the most accessible beer in the g Green lineup. It pours pale gold and the dry-hopping process — adding hops after fermentation rather than during, which preserves volatile aromatic compounds — gives the beer a fresh citrus aroma that a standard lager at this strength would not carry. The body is light and clean, the finish dry rather than sweet, and the 4.1% ABV places it squarely in session territory. The gluten-free certification means it is brewed without conventional barley malt, using alternative grains and processes that achieve the pale, clean lager character without the gluten content. The result drinks like a lager with an aromatic edge, not like a gluten-free beer trying to pass as one.
How Gluten-Free Dry Hop Lager is drunk at home
Santé! / Op uw gezondheid! (sahn-TAY / op-uw geh-ZONT-hayt) — French and Flemish respectively, both meaning “to your health.” In Hainaut, where Brunehaut is based, Santé is the natural call — and a beer that allows the full table to participate in the round makes the toast more straightforward.
In Belgium, a session lager at 4.1% with a citrus hop character belongs to the early and informal part of the occasion. At a Sunday family lunch that moves through multiple beers across courses, it arrives first — cold, approachable, easy to pour for anyone at the table regardless of dietary requirement. Belgian fries with mayonnaise are the natural companion: the salt and the clean fat of the fries work directly alongside the dry, citrus-forward finish of the lager. Moules-frites extends the same logic further — the brine of the mussels, the salt of the fries, and the clean hop aroma of the Dry Hop Lager form an easy, unfussy combination. Stoofvlees, the heavy braised beef stew, belongs to a later point in the meal and a heavier beer; the Dry Hop Lager has completed its work by the time it arrives.
Belgian beer festivals increasingly include gluten-free options alongside the standard range, and the Brunehaut g Green lager holds its place there without requiring the drinker to explain their choice to anyone.
How to drink it in Japan
The Gluten-Free Dry Hop Lager is a warm-season beer in Japan — May through September — when the citrus aroma and the clean, light body suit the heat and the occasions it generates: rooftop gatherings in Tokyo, outdoor meals in Kobe, the Belgian National Day celebration on July 21 where a cold, low-alcohol lager is the practical choice for an afternoon that extends into evening.
At 7-Eleven, try it alongside a shio-flavoured chicken skewer from the hot counter — the clean salt and the char of the chicken respond to the citrus hop aroma of the lager in a way that is simple and direct, each element making the other easier. For a composed pairing at home, serve it with agedashi tofu: the light dashi broth, the soft interior, and the crisp exterior of the tofu find a natural counterpart in the dry, clean finish of the lager, with the citrus note providing just enough aromatic presence to keep the pairing interesting. It is a beer that suits delicate Japanese food well precisely because it does not overstate itself.
Certified gluten-free lagers with dry-hop character are not a category that Tokyo’s specialty import shops stock consistently. By the case from Omori Mart — 330ml × 24 cans — the per-can cost is practical for households that want a reliable gluten-free option through the summer rather than a single purchase.
Get Gluten-Free Dry Hop Lager delivered in Japan
Gluten-Free Dry Hop Lager is available from Omori Mart in a 330ml × 24 can case, delivered nationwide across Japan.
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Rakuten and Amazon Japan do not carry this label. Omori Mart stocks the Belgian beers that cover every requirement at the table, including the ones that need to be gluten-free without tasting like it.
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Santé in Rongy, where a Hainaut brewery spent the 2010s working out how to make gluten-free beer taste like beer, and kanpai at a Tokyo rooftop in July — pale gold, citrus in the nose, cold enough, and everyone in the round.
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