Vitamin Beer

[AdamLucko]

What do ya think? is it possible? Could you add vitamins post brewing? and if so after filtration? what would be the river that has to be crossed?

Not sure if it has been done. We have always been able to flavor beer? Why not make it more nutritious?

This is for discussion, please lets start with benefits, then negatives, and try to see if we can find the solution?

Please just don't shoot it down right away!

We could make beer even better, and then we'd have 0 nagging

 

[1977Brewer]

Yeast is already an excellent source of B vitamins. Just...let that be good enough.

 

[Natdavis777]

Drink your beer outside and get some Vitamin D. Boom, B & D with one stone!

 

[chickypad]

Drink your beer outside and get some Vitamin D. Boom, B & D with one stone!

Sounds good to me! I suppose I could also set a jar of multivitamins on the kegerator. Who's nagging you OP? Pretty sure all the folks bugging me to make more beer aren't really interested in the nutritional component.

 

[Natdavis777]

Sounds good to me! I suppose I could also set a jar of multivitamins on the kegerator. Who's nagging you OP? Pretty sure all the folks bugging me to make more beer aren't really interested in the nutritional component.

One could fill a Randell with the gummy multivitamins and run the beer through that.

 

[max384]

What do ya think? is it possible? Could you add vitamins post brewing? and if so after filtration? what would be the river that has to be crossed?

Not sure if it has been done. We have always been able to flavor beer? Why not make it more nutritious?

This is for discussion, please lets start with benefits, then negatives, and try to see if we can find the solution?

Please just don't shoot it down right away!

We could make beer even better, and then we'd have 0 nagging

Adding vitamins to beer won't make it suddenly healthy. With beer, it's not about what isn't in it, it's about what is in it (alcohol) that makes it unhealthy (if drinken to excess).

Besides the high likelihood that it would produce off-flavors in the beer, how would you know how much, if any, of each of the different types of vitamins were actually dissolved in the beer? Each vitamin has a different solubility in water, which means if you crushed up some multivitamins, you'd have vastly different relative concentrations of each vitamin.

Even if it were somehow able to be done by the homebrewer without off-flavors, it could only be described as being healthy through false advertising.

Now, if all that you're doing is trying to get your wife off of your back, you'd be much better just telling her that you added vitamins to your beer instead of actually doing it. And then hope that your wife is gullible.

 

[1977Brewer]

Yeast is already an excellent source of B vitamins. Just...let that be good enough.

I know it's bad internet manners to quote yourself, but this is the real answer. Bottle conditioned beer has a B Complex supplement at the bottom.

 

[ArcaneXor]

You could potentially adjust your mash pH with ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) instead of phosphoric/lactic acid. I don't know what the flavor impact would be, but if you want to make supplement beer, that's where I'd start.

 

[1977Brewer]

You could potentially adjust your mash pH with ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) instead of phosphoric/lactic acid. I don't know what the flavor impact would be, but if you want to make supplement beer, that's where I'd start.

You're a psychopath and I wanna brew with you.

 

[Natdavis777]

You could potentially adjust your mash pH with ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) instead of phosphoric/lactic acid. I don't know what the flavor impact would be, but if you want to make supplement beer, that's where I'd start.

What if this was the Holy Grail of making amazing Pale beers...

 

[jerryboy]

http://www.brewdog.com/blog-article/never-mind-the-anabolics this comes to mind.

 

[armedcor]

Powdered multivitamins are disgusting!

 

[miac]

I was thinking of using vitamin e (the compound in asparagus that makes it an aphrodisiac) in a sort of date night beer, as well as chocolate, vanilla, and pomegranate. Thoughts?

 

[slym2none]

Sounds rape-a-licious.

 

[Aristotelian]

I used to love the flavor of Flintstones vitamins as a kid. Just sayin.

 

[Gavin C]

Vitamin E is not water soluble as far as I know, so will likely just end up in the trub.

Can't imaging there is much lipids in beer into which to dissolve the vitamin E

 

[max384]

I was thinking of using vitamin e (the compound in asparagus that makes it an aphrodisiac) in a sort of date night beer, as well as chocolate, vanilla, and pomegranate. Thoughts?

Asparagus is actually a very poor source of vitamin E, despite being touted as an aphrodisiac for that reason. As was already said, vitamin E is fat soluble, so you won't have any luck with much of it dissolving in your beer.

My advice? Skip the vitamins in your beer. The best aphrodisiac I've found is treating her right and paying her compliments.

 

[Gavin C]

My advice? Skip the vitamins in your beer. The best aphrodisiac I've found is treating her right and paying her compliments.

If that fails you can always use beer.