Mirella Amato Explained

Mirella Amato
Nationality:	Canadian
Occupation:	Beer Consultant

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]

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]

External links

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Notes and References

http://www.cicerone.org/certified/cicerone/ Cicerone Certification Program 2012
Web site: Find a Certified Professional Cicerone Certification Program. www.cicerone.org. 2020-03-24.
https://cicerone.org/content/roster/Master-Cicerone/ Master Cicerone Certification Program 2012
http://www.bjcp.org/apps/reports/proctors.php Beer Judge Certification Program 2012
http://www.ontariocraftbrewers.com/OCBC2012recap.php Ontario Craft Brewers Association 2012
Web site: Belgian Brewers - The Knighthood of the Brewers' Paddle. www.belgianbrewers.be. 2020-03-24.
http://beerology.ca Beerology
http://beerology.ca/guided-beer-tastings-and-beer-consultant-services/ Beerology: Services
http://casktoronto.wordpress.com/about/ Cask! 2008
Web site: Barleys Angels Toronto. Barleys Angels Toronto. 2015-09-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20150908041205/https://barleysangels.wordpress.com/. 2015-09-08. dead.
http://www.barleysangels.org/ Barley’s Angels
Web site: Chapter Leader. my.pinkbootssociety.org. 2020-03-24.
http://www.cbc.ca/airplay/episodes/2011/12/22/cellaring-the-new-rage-in-the-world-of-beer/ CBC Radio 2011
http://www.cbc.ca/hereandnowtoronto/episodes/2011/02/14/taste-of-to-mirella-amato-pairs-beer-and-chocolates/ Here and Now February 11, 2011
Web site: ICI Radio-Canada Première Balados, livres audio. Radio-Canada. fr. 2020-03-24.
http://www.history.ca/ontv/titledetails.aspx?titleid=272291 Beer: What's In a Name? 2012
http://www.bttoronto.ca/inside/more.jsp?content=20100628_054321_4608 Breakfast Television, June 25, 2010
http://www.canada.com/life/Video+grown+guide+beer/5378920/story.html Canada.com 2012
https://books.google.com/books?id=gYVLHMmplRcC&q=oxford+companion+to+beer Google Books 2011
http://www.randomhouse.ca/books/228949/beerology-by-mirella-amato?isbn=9780449016121 Random House 2014
http://www.randomhouse.ca/imprints/appetite Appetite by Random House
https://www.amazon.com/Beerology-Everything-Need-Know-Enjoy-ebook/dp/B00GL3PX3Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403548974&sr=8-1&keywords=beerology Amazon.com
Web site: Découvrez le monde de la bière. Éditions Broquet Inc.. fr-FR. 2020-03-24.
Web site: Bierologie. www.boersenmedien.de. 2020-03-24.