Vitamins and homebrew

[Steve-oh]

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?

 

[Tenchiro]

The yeast itself will provide a good amount of Vitamin B, I am not sure about the rest of it though.

http://bavarianbrewerytech.com/news/guess.htm looks to have some good info on the overall nutritional content of beer and its components.

If it were me I would crush a multivitamin and add that to a single beer on bottling to see what it tastes like and how it reacts to the process.

 

[Brew-Happy]

The question might be whether to add it in the primary or going into the bottle.

Might make a taste difference, but I am curious if the vitamins or minerals will increase or decrease yeast activity. Are antioxidants bad for yeast health?

Interesting experiment idea.

 

[BigKahuna]

I would be very wearry of this. you'll surely make a nasty flavor...suck on your daily multi vitamin tomorrow....you want that in your beer?
I credit my superior health to the daily drinking of Apfelwein....it's got Vit C!

Might conjur up a label with a vitamin in a blister pack or someting.

 

[asdeal]

I have put a pack of emergantC in the bottom of a bottle and then filled it with up off the tap with a Wheat Beer. It worked really well but I only did a few bottles mostly to have something fun for our meeting