Mirella Amato is a trilingual beer consultant, beer sommelier, and author based in Toronto, Ontario, a foremost specialist on Beer in Canada. She was the first woman in Canada to become a Certified Cicerone[1] and, in 2012, became the first non-US resident to earn the Master Cicerone® certification.[2][3] Amato is one of very few judges in the Beer Judge Certification Program in Canada to have reached the Master Level of certification.[4] She is also the recipient of the 2012 Ontario Craft Brewers Centre of Excellence Industry Choice Award in Food & Beer Matching Development[5] and in 2018 she was inducted into the Belgian brewers' Guild as an Honorary Knight of the Brewer's Paddle.[6]

Mirella Amato
Mirella Amato at café 't Brugs Beertje in Bruges
Personal details
NationalityCanadian
OccupationBeer Consultant

In 2008, Amato founded Beerology,[7] a company through which she offers craft beer and sensory consulting services.[8] Amato is the co-founder of the Toronto-based cask ale advocacy group Cask!.[9] She is also the founder of the Toronto Chapters[10] of the women-only international beer-appreciation society, Barley's Angels [11] as well as its professional counterpart, the Pink Boots Society.[12]

Amato has appeared on CBC Radio,[13][14] Radio Canada,[15] History Television,[16] CityTV's Breakfast Television[17] and Canada.com[18] She also contributed a number of entries to the Oxford Companions to Beer.[19] Her first book, Beerology: Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Beer...Even More,[20] published by Appetite [21] by Random House, was released on May 27, 2014[22] and has been translated into French[23] and German.[24]

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  1. ^ Cicerone Certification Program 2012 Archived 2012-03-18 at the Wayback Machine Accessed March 12, 2012
  2. ^ "Find a Certified Professional | Cicerone Certification Program". www.cicerone.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  3. ^ Master Cicerone Certification Program 2012 Archived 2013-12-12 at the Wayback Machine Accessed December 11, 2012
  4. ^ Beer Judge Certification Program 2012. Accessed March 12, 2012.
  5. ^ Ontario Craft Brewers Association 2012 Accessed December 11, 2012
  6. ^ "Belgian Brewers - The Knighthood of the Brewers' Paddle". www.belgianbrewers.be. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  7. ^ Beerology Accessed March 3, 2012
  8. ^ Beerology: Services Accessed March 12, 2012
  9. ^ Cask! 2008. Accessed March 8, 2012
  10. ^ "Barleys Angels Toronto". Barleys Angels Toronto. Archived from the original on 2015-09-08. Retrieved 2015-09-09.
  11. ^ Barley’s Angels. Accessed March 12, 2012
  12. ^ "Chapter Leader". my.pinkbootssociety.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  13. ^ CBC Radio 2011 Accessed February 22, 2012
  14. ^ Here and Now February 11, 2011 Accessed March 9, 2012
  15. ^ "ICI Radio-Canada Première | Balados, livres audio". Radio-Canada (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  16. ^ Beer: What's In a Name? 2012 Archived 2012-05-04 at the Wayback Machine Accessed March 12, 2012
  17. ^ Breakfast Television, June 25, 2010 Accessed March 12, 2012
  18. ^ Canada.com 2012 Accessed March 12, 2012
  19. ^ Google Books 2011. Accessed March 12, 2012
  20. ^ Random House 2014[permanent dead link] Accessed June 23
  21. ^ Appetite by Random House Archived 2014-07-01 at the Wayback Machine Accessed June 23, 2014
  22. ^ Amazon.com Accessed June 23
  23. ^ "Découvrez le monde de la bière". Éditions Broquet Inc. (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  24. ^ "Bierologie". www.boersenmedien.de. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
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