A Review of Gluten-Free Beers

Beer is one of my favorite things. Wine is nice and I've gotten too sick on too many liquors to ever even go there, but beer is. my. favorite! So it's very possibly the hardest thing to do without on the GF (gluten-free) diet. Let's jump right in, shall we?
All beers are made with wheat or barley, both of which have gluten. That means that Corona, Pacifico, Rolling Rock, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Guinness and my favorite, Newcastle are ALL OFF LIMITS. BUMMER! So what are the alternatives? Anheuser Busch has, very kindly, answered the call of gluten-free beer-lovers with their offering of 'Redbridge'. Now before I go into this thoroughly, I have to remind you that without the traditional wheat and/or barley beginnings, all of these beers are going to taste different that your old tried-and-true loves. GF beer is made with sorghum, a type of grain which, according to Wikipedia "has been, for centuries, one of the most important staples foods for millions of poor rural people in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa. For some impoverished regions of the world, sorghum remains a principal source of energy, protein, vitamins and minerals." As such, sorghum beer tastes different - specifically, it's sweeter. Most GF beers have very evident fruit overtones, almost like a cider.
So. We were at 'Redbridge'. Redbridge is great - I'd have to say my second favorite. One of the best things about it is that, as an Anheuser Busch product, it is widely available - every large grocery store (state or nation-wide) carries it for about $10 per six-pack. Besides the general fruity overtones, I do notice that it tends to have a metallic sort of taste, assumably from the cap, which is a twist-off. I don't really know why some beers have this and others don't. I find that Pacifico has it pretty often, but that's besides the point.
The first GF beer I tried was Green's Gluten Free Dubbel Dark Ale which is bottle fermented and as such, is sweet, top-heavy, and FRUITY. It's sort of like the love child of beer and champagne. It's nose and top flavors are strongly champagne while the finnish mellows out eventually to a beer-like flavor. Another detractor to this beer is its size - as of now, it only comes in 500 mL. 
Next were Bard's and New Grist. Bard's markets itself as 'The Original Sorghum Malt Beer" which it may or may not be. What it IS, though, is fairly true to beer in taste. I was most excited about these two beers because they are widely the best-reveiwed GF beers I've seen. Bard's biggest detractor is a sort of raw pizza dough taste. It's yeasty. Yeasty and young. It's very top is nice and seems very beer-like, but then you get this yeast kick in the mouth that is sort of a deal-breaker for me.
Lastly, New Grist. With a saucy, possibly drunk Moon-chewing-on-some-sorghum image and the ever-popular 19th C "Green Fairy/Le Chat" font, it's easy to distinguish. With it's only mildly sweet, accurately beer-y flavor, it's easy to drink! No pear-high flavors, no metallic what-the-pho?! Just good, drinkable, beer. Winner? NEW GRIST!!!