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I bought this book in O'Mahonys bookstore yesterday. It's a beautifully illustrated book focusing on beers from craft breweries worldwide and well worth a read . The Great Britain and Ireland section includes mentions for O'Haras, Dungarvan and Galway hooker amongst others and page 127 includes the recommendation "Find the best Irish beer information on <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="www.beoir.org">www.beoir.org"

Oh, excellent. Thanks for the heads-up.

Dammit I shouldn't have looked it up on Amazon. Three mistakes spotted in the first minute. I see they've followed BEER magazine's lead[/url:3ervv181] and put Trouble in the mythical town of Allendale.

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:2g77mdr8 wrote: Dammit I shouldn't have looked it up on Amazon. Three mistakes spotted in the first minute. I see they've followed BEER magazine's lead[/url:2g77mdr8] and put Trouble in the mythical town of Allendale.[/quote:2g77mdr8]

not to worry apple has been making up lots of airports and villages.

anyhow good news is it a good book or if not what would the definitive beer reference book be?

&amp;quot;emmetg&amp;quot;:2mug0sql wrote: what would the definitive beer reference book be?[/quote:2mug0sql]The nearest is probably the Oxford Companion[/url:2mug0sql] -- it's the only attempt at it that I know of. But to be honest I don't think anyone has put in the money and effort that a definitive beer reference book requires. The market seems to be for pretty, glossy coffee-table books with wonky fact-checking and little or no citations.

Even the Oxford Companion isn't free from blemish.

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