An Academic Approach

"A little light reading, Listy?" Rimmer picked up the battered book and peered at the title. Retention Ability of Malt and the Yeasting Process - A Treatise on Deep Space Brewing. "You can't beat the classics."

Pulling himself with some difficulty out of the maintenance hatch, Lister snorted. "Laugh it up. You'll see." A faint, sickly-sweet smell wafted from below. Lister closed his eyes. "Smell that? That's success."

"No, that is the anal leakage of an diabetic cat. At best."

"Keep going," Lister grinned, "and I won't give ye any."

"Why would I-"

"I don't mean beer."

Rimmer swallowed. "Carry on."