Health authorities say everyday items like Vegemite and Ribena juice are being used to brew homemade alcohol in some of Queensland's Indigenous communities.

Alcohol management plans were introduced in 19 of the state's Indigenous communities nearly 10 years ago to reduce alcohol-fuelled violence.

But Selwyn Button, from the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council, says there is a growing industry in the sale of toxic homemade alcohol in some communities in the state's Gulf region.

"They're using things like Vegemite, things like Ribena juice," he told PM.

"They're using a whole range of products and items that can be used to essentially ferment and turn into alcohol.

"It's anything that they can get their hands on that has the ability to ferment."

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Mr Button says the homemade alcohol is sold in juice and milk bottles and is expensive.

He says local health and community service staff see the homebrew, which is heavy in sugar and carbohydrates, as the biggest health risk for local people.

"The ingredients that go into the bastardised homebrew are going to create [a] long-term problem ... particularly issues like type 2 diabetes," he said.

"Type 2 diabetes is already an issue in many of our communities. The increase in prevalence of homebrew and the consumption of homebrew in remote communities will further contribute to that."

Mr Button says many communities are frustrated with the persistent problem.

"The responses to the issue at the moment have been about increasing the numbers of convictions, increasing the numbers of people who have been breached for carrying alcohol in communities," he said.

"These issues then have a cascading effect, they flow on to non-payment of fines, ending up in prisons, and it creates the whole cycle then of dysfunction."

The Queensland Government says it will consider lifting alcohol bans in some communities if they can prove it will not cause problems.

A spokesman says the Government is still waiting for a submission from some Gulf communities.