[M.D. Holloway]

SOLUTION OF THE SECRET OF ALCOHOLIC FERMENTATION

"Beer yeast, when dispersed in water, breaks down into
an infinite number of small spheres. If these spheres are
transferred to an aqueous solution of sugar they develop into small
animals. They
are endowed with a sort of suction trunk with which they gulp up the
sugar from the solution. Digestion is immediately and clearly
recognizable because of the discharge if excrements. These animals
evacuate
ethyl alcohol from their bowels and carbon dioxide from their urinary
organs. Thus one can observe how a specifically lighter fluid is exuded
from the anus and rises vertically whereas a stream of carbon dioxide is
ejected at very short intervals from their enormously large genitals."

by Fredrich Woehier and Justus Von Liebig
Published in the annals of Chemistry Volume 29, 1839

I just thought it was funny...yes I am 12!