A Biologist’s St. Patrick’s Day Song

\\И всё-таки мне этот улыбающийся перец чем-то Дмитрия Шварёва напоминает. A 200-year-old Irish classic! Lyrics: In the year of our lord eighteen hundred and eleven On March the seventeenth day I will raise up a beer and I’ll raise up a cheer For Saccharomyces cerevisiae Here’s to brewers yeast, that humblest of all beast Producing carbon gas reducing acetaldehyde But my friends that isn’t all -- it makes ethyl alcohol That is what the yeast excretes and that’s what we imbibe Anaerobic respiration* Al