I love a good beer book and I see from The Guardian that Tom Cannavan's pal Roger Protz has a new book for us to read called 300 Beers to Try Before You Die!. The reviewer says:

OK, this is beer porn, in that many of the products are brewed on the other side of the world and are for most practical purposes unavailable; it's also big and heavy, with many colour pictures of bottles and labels and whatever you call those things they put on the pumps to tell you what beer it is (beer clips, I think). Each beer has a column which invites you to record your own tasting notes, but the glossiness of the book discourages it even if you were of a mind to fill all the boxes in. You will also come across words such as "quaffable" (see below), which some people snigger at, but then it is a fair enough word to describe the kind of liquid that can be drunk in great big gulps without making you feel queasy.