Vitamins, minerals, and booze?

[JNOYES88]

Has anyone tried, before bottling, adding vitamin B6, B12, Potasium, or any other herbs, vitamins, or minerals to try a "HEALTH" or "less of a hangover" cider or beer?

I know potasium sorbate is a preservative that will eff my cider carbing, but can you just use a disolvable potasium suppliment or other disolvable vitamins? I also thought of st. johns wort, a mood enhancer. CAN IT BE DONE?

Thank you ahead of time for comments, advice, and know how.

 

[hoppymonkey]

YOu better know what you are doing with something like that. Vitamins and minerals are less of a concern, but many herbs active ingredients turn into other things in the presense of alcohol. I like the idea, but I'd want a pro's advice.

 

[oldmate]

There's a few meads that I've seen on here like that. Try gotmead.com as well. IMO, the thought of a 'healthy alcohol' is kind of an oxymoron.

 

[JNOYES88]

I got the idea from a micro brewery out in cali. They add un-named vitamins and minerals to beers. The best I could figure from research it must be B6, B12, and Potasium which lead to hang overs accompanied by dehydration. Which conjuncts with the vitamin C you get from certain yeasts and juices (organic apple juice). So I was thinking about trying it with one gallon, of my 5 gallon batch of cider to see how it turns out.

 

[frydogbrews]

put all the vitamins and minerals you want in beer, the vast majority won't be absorbed by the stomach lining in the presence of alcohol. it will make your urine a pretty color though!
this is why i drink so much wine. if you only get 1/5 of the vitamins out of a glass of wine because of the alcohol, i should drink 5 glasses right? that way i get all the vitamins out of the first. makes sense to me.