Politicians and brewers have plans to add special vitamins to beer in order to stop alcohol-related brain damage. Scientists want to put thiamine, or vitamin B1, in Scotland’s lagers and ales. It would help prevent the brain disease Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, which affects the heaviest drinkers. The plan seems to have been rejected in the U.K. but the Scottish Executive health department has commissioned an advisory group to investigate.

Dailyrecord.co.uk, 11/19/02