Have some vitamins with your beer.
Vitamins - they add them to the water, so why the beer?
After all, when you drink alcohol you are depleting your Vitamin B. So what better way to get it back than in the product that’s taking it away. That’s the theory, apparently, behind Filipino inventer Billy L Malang’s Vitamin-B enhanced beer. Although not yet on the market, this beer won a gold medal at the 2004 Eurpoean Union sponsored Genius -Europe competition and was a hit at the recent Inventors Day Convention in Bangkok.
He claims that his is the first Vitamin Beer, but that’s not exactly true. Stampade Beers of Texas not only developed but also marketed their own vitamin beer back in 2006. Aimed at attracting the active, healthy consumer, Stampede Plus was always silent about what was in it’s drink, stating “…the government doesn’t let us tell you explicitly what the extra (plus) is.”
And back in 2002, the Scottish government was discussing the possibility of having brewers add the vitamin thiamin to beer, believing that doing this could to prevent some forms of alcohol-related brain damage. But nothing seemed to eventuate.
But here’s an interesting fact. Beer is already a good source of B vitamins due to it’s high content of brewers yeast. It’s just that the filtering process it goes through during it’s production, plus the alcohol itself, reduces the body’s ability to activate these vitamins.
So does that mean that home brew will be rich in B vitamins ?
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