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Now, vitamin B posed more of a problem in its natural form and lots of it for a horse who weighed around 18 hundredweights. Then of course the penny dropped, beer. Ruth remembered the times when hospital patients had been prescribed a personal allowance of “milk stout”. Full of vitamin B and the ideal pick me up for those under the weather. From time to time in the past we had been able to help our local family brewery “Bateman's” with jobs involving heavy horses. We contacted “Mr George” the boss who was only too pleased to help out.“How much do your think he needs?” was the leading question. Working out his daily water intake, we decided he would require between 1 and 2 gallons of milk stout each day.