What Irish beer is named after a man who started keeping track of bizarre information?

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the question is inverted - the beer came first, then the book, and the guinnesses were a large and eccentric family, spread widely and only connected by their common income from the brew. the name cantrell itself is a well known drinks label in ireland, as "C&C", cantrell and cochrane. mostly soft drinks.

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