Research: Beer can make you smarter

Urbana-Champaign, Ill. -- This might be one more reason to knock back a cold one.

According to new research beer could actually make you smarter. Researchers at the University of Illinois say compared to sober folks, beer guzzlers were better at creative problem-solving tasks.

Surprisingly they were faster too, but they were worse at memory tasks.

That's because alcohol can make you forgetful.