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Has anyone ever attempted to brew a beer with any significant nutritional value by infusing it with vitamins and minerals. IE, dissolving vitamins into the wort, or "dryhopping" with vitamin C, etc?

Has anyone ever attempted such madness? Foregoing the standard hop additions during a 1 hour boil and instead dry hopping the beer with the same amount that would have been consumed during boil?

I "dry hopped" on top of a Jalapeño. Will the pepper effect the yeast or will I need to repitch when bottling?

Seriously.......................I just got back from a night on the town to find my 2nd AG (a wheat) about ready to blow out. The airlock was filled with wort, wort was spilled all over the cover of the bucket, and it was struggling to bubble. Pulled out the air lock. Refilled it. Replaced...

So I just transferred my first AG batch to the secondary yesterday (Bee Cave Brewery Haus Pale Ale) and noticed chunks of stuff suspended in the upper 4 inches of the brew. It looked like something from a severe chest cold. I transferred anyway, trying to avoid sucking up any of the...

Recipe: 2 lbs DME 3 gallons of Apple Cider ~2 gallons of Apple Juice ~2 teaspoons of cinnamon to smell 1 packet of ale yeast (was in a red package, cant remember the brand) It took about 48 hours to catch and start fermenting with a couple of bubbles a second (like any normal brew)...

So, in a quest to recreate one of the beers entered into the Sam Adams Longshot competition a year ago, I tried my hand at improvising a recipe for a smoked ale. Steeped a pound of smoked grain, used 6 lb of DME, 1 lb of rice syrup solids, 5 oz bittering hops (hallertau) and 2 oz of Saaz...

So, after the primary fermentation finished for my summer wheat, I racked it onto about 1 gallon of blackberry puree (blackberries sanitized with a campden tablet). It's been over 48 hours without any airlock activity. I haven't taken and gravity readings after the racking, but should I be...