The Beer Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Finest Craft Beer

Snyder's book is a wonderful text that is small enough to go anywhere (all over the house) yet contains a wealth of information about the best brews in the world. For its size, this book packs a lot of information from brewing and history, to the art of drinking, and finally, an exhaustive listing of the world's finest beers--truly an invaluable resource for those who want to know the world of beer.

This book is a wonderful guide to best beers in the world from the refined and old world brewers of Europe to the infancy of American microbreweries. The book lacks deep definitions of different types of brew but will give a vivid descriptions of the beers themselves. It is also nice that this book gives examples with illustrations of what glasses these artistically brewed beers should be consumed out of. A nice description of the creme de la creme, but not an in depth source on distinctive styles in general. For that imformation, Michael Jackson's book would be better.