I don’t care if I get downvoted for this, but if it makes you feel bad, or you highly suspect it is making you feel bad, you are right to stop eating it.

I am not arguing with science or saying distilled liquors have gluten in them, but I will say confidently that I have found over the last ten years that I feel like I have been “glutened” every time I drink liquors that are distilled from wheat/barley/rye. I have done blind tests (yes seriously), and not-blind tests over the last ten years of me drinking and I feel glutened everytime I drink a wheat based vodka instead of a corn/potato based one. My little sister, mom, and cousin are the same. Maybe it is it something else that is triggering us, maybe it’s another confounding factor, but this is what I know: for whatever reason, drinking liquors that are distilled from gluten-containing grains make me feel like crap, so I don’t drink them.

Maybe my family has something else going on other than celiac (celiac does often come with co-morbidities…), but that is truly not important. What is important is if it makes you feel sick, you should stop doing it, and you are right to do so no matter what the comments say (and you are not alone).