Beer is asteroid #1896 and also known as 1971 UC1. Beer was discovered by the Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek at the Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory, Hamburg, Germany. Beer is a member of the asteroid-family Nysa, that is part of the asteroid-complex Nysa-Polana. I quote the official naming citation:

Named in honor of the astronomer Arthur Beer, born in Bohemia in 1900, who worked at the Naval Observatory in Hamburg during 1929-1934, prior to moving to England. He was senior observer at the Cambridge Observatories from 1947 until his retirement in 1967. Although perhaps best known for his on-going series Vistas in Astronomy, he has worked extensively on spectroscopic binaries, on the nova DQ Herculis and on the spectrophotometry of O and B stars and galactic structure. Name suggested by B. G. Marsden.

[Ref: Minor Planet Circ. 3827]

I have to quote this because it is different from what the Wikipedia knows about this astronomer. He lived from 1900 until 1980 and was Czech-Austrian, not German as the English part of the Wikipedia states. His Czech passport saved him during the Second World War, but he had to emigrate in 1934 when he wasn’t able to prove to the Nazis that he didn’t have Jews among his ancestors and couldn’t work at any German university or German observatory anymore. Arthur Beer was declared a public enemy after and most likely because of his emigration. Arthur Beer became British in 1946. The Vistas in Astronomy was an astronomy textbook with contributions of two-hundred-and-fifteen astronomers, mathematicians, and historians and tried to portray the whole science of astronomy. Arthur Beer used every opportunity to teach science or support scientific research. So he had a role in the first radio program on science and he was a member in the International Astronomical Union. He had a wife, a son, and a daughter. Arthur Beer’s son became an astronomer too. Wikipedia is sure that Arthur Beer contracted polio in 1924 while he still was a student, but an operation later made him able to walk again. I did never hear of and never before read about any case, where an effect of polio or any other viral disease got reversed by an operation. But polio is a really complex topic including good reasons to doubt every piece of mainstream information and every diagnosis. Polio is one of those diseases, which cause some people to state that viruses wouldn’t exist at all. So what really happened to Arthur Beer can’t be known. His mortal remains are buried in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground in Cambridge.

The family-name Beer has several variants like Baehr, Bähr, Behr, Baer, Bär, and Ber. Beer is an English as well as a German family-name, but it and all of its variants always go back to the Middle High German word ber, which means bear and is thought to have been used for describing a strong and brave human. So the name Beer doesn’t have anything to do with the modern English word beer. If you are looking for an asteroid with a beer-related theme, then have a look at Ninkasi!

The asteroid Beer instead is an asteroid of the bear theme. The asteroid Beer has this in common with asteroids like Kumakiri, Kumamori, Standing Bear, Ursa, or Ursula. Beer only is taken from a different language. Beer as an astrological force is most related with Standing Bear and seems to be a weak reflection of it. Indigenous people suffered severe discrimination in the USA and Standing Bear was bearing up and was successful enough to change a good deal of this situation. Arthur Beer was troubled by the Nazis, but could only flee. He also was troubled by a severe disease and was only able to reconquer his ability to walk. He achieved what he was able to achieve because defeating the Nazis needed whole armies and polio is in reality still not understood. So bearing up was useless and Arthur Beer did achieve what was possible to achieve in reality. So Beer is a weaker variant of Standing Bear and indicating that you can’t win by bearing up. Beer of course also represents people with the family-name Beer or its variants.