Vitamin C sold in stores today is made from fermenting potatoes. In
other words, Vitamin C is made from starch conversion and fermentation,
which is what making beer is. The "astringent" taste in immature beer
is Vitamin C. The purpose of aging beer in bottles is to remove this
taste, but why? Why not drink the ale "short" (recently fermented) and
get all the nutrition it has to offer?