OCB

OCB may refer to:

Orange Community Radio

Orange Community Radio (callsign:2OCB) is a community radio station that broadcasts to the city of Orange, New South Wales and surrounding districts on the frequency 107.5 MHz. It is one of three community radio stations in the area alongside 2MCE and Rhema FM. The station is sometimes identified on air as FM 107.5- The Local Station and is simply known as 'Orange Radio' or 'FM 107.5' on its website.

History

Orange Community Radio was originally known as Apple FM, and operated under a temporary community radio broadcasting licence in the 1980s and most of the 1990s. The current station gained its full community broadcasting licence in January 1998. The station survived an insolvency scare in 2001.

Programming

Orange Community Radio airs an eclectic mix of programming, including music, arts, Indigenous programming and programming in languages other than English. All locally produced programs are presented by volunteers, with some programming originating from the Community Radio Network (Australia).

The Oxford Companion to Beer

The Oxford Companion to Beer, abbreviated OCB, is a book in the series of Oxford Companions published by Oxford University Press. The book provides an alphabetically arranged reference to beer, compiled and edited by Garrett Oliver with a foreword by U.S. chef Tom Colicchio. Published in 2011, the work draws on 166 contributors from 24 countries to amass over 1,100 entries on beer.

Eric Asimov of The New York Times described the work as a "mammoth undertaking ... encyclopedic in scope", and that the editor has "captured the blossoming of a global beer culture at a thriving moment".

Critical opinion of the work has also been voiced, with contentions that the OCB perpetuates certain beer history myths, and other omissions published by writers and beer enthusiasts, some of whom OCB contributors themselves. Shortly after publication an unofficial wiki site was launched to "make comments, add annotation, identify errata and suggest further sources to the text of The Oxford Companion to Beer".