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 | |
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 Mirella Amato at café 't Brugs Beertje in Bruges | |
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| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Beer 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]
References
edit- ^ Cicerone Certification Program 2012 Archived 2012-03-18 at the Wayback Machine Accessed March 12, 2012
- ^ "Find a Certified Professional | Cicerone Certification Program". www.cicerone.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
- ^ Master Cicerone Certification Program 2012 Archived 2013-12-12 at the Wayback Machine Accessed December 11, 2012
- ^ Beer Judge Certification Program 2012. Accessed March 12, 2012.
- ^ Ontario Craft Brewers Association 2012 Accessed December 11, 2012
- ^ "Belgian Brewers - The Knighthood of the Brewers' Paddle". www.belgianbrewers.be. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
- ^ Beerology Accessed March 3, 2012
- ^ Beerology: Services Accessed March 12, 2012
- ^ Cask! 2008. Accessed March 8, 2012
- ^ "Barleys Angels Toronto". Barleys Angels Toronto. Archived from the original on 2015-09-08. Retrieved 2015-09-09.
- ^ Barley’s Angels. Accessed March 12, 2012
- ^ "Chapter Leader". my.pinkbootssociety.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
- ^ CBC Radio 2011 Accessed February 22, 2012
- ^ Here and Now February 11, 2011 Accessed March 9, 2012
- ^ "ICI Radio-Canada Première | Balados, livres audio". Radio-Canada (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-24.
- ^ Beer: What's In a Name? 2012 Archived 2012-05-04 at the Wayback Machine Accessed March 12, 2012
- ^ Breakfast Television, June 25, 2010 Accessed March 12, 2012
- ^ Canada.com 2012 Accessed March 12, 2012
- ^ Google Books 2011. Accessed March 12, 2012
- ^ Random House 2014[permanent dead link] Accessed June 23
- ^ Appetite by Random House Archived 2014-07-01 at the Wayback Machine Accessed June 23, 2014
- ^ Amazon.com Accessed June 23
- ^ "Découvrez le monde de la bière". Éditions Broquet Inc. (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-24.
- ^ "Bierologie". www.boersenmedien.de. Retrieved 2020-03-24.