Mirella Amato
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Mirella Amato | |
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 Mirella Amato at café 't Brugs Beertje in Bruges | |
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| Occupation | Beer Consultant |
Mirella Amato is a trilingual beer consultant, beer sommelier, and award-winning author based in Toronto, Ontario, a foremost specialist on beer, with a focus on education, sensory analysis, and beer and food pairing. 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] She is also the recipient of the 2012 Ontario Craft Brewers Centre of Excellence Industry Choice Award in Food & Beer Matching Development[4] and in 2018 she was inducted into the Belgian brewers' Guild as an Honorary Knight of the Brewer's Paddle.[5] In January 2025, Mirella became the second person in Canada[6] and the first Master Cicerone to earn the title of Grand Master Judge with the Beer Judge Certification Program.
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]