Mirella Amato Politician
Mirella Amato is a bilingual beer consultant 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 and, in 2012, became the first non-US resident to earn the Master Cicerone® certification. Amato is one of very few judges in the Beer Judge Certification Program in Canada to have reached the National Level of certification. She is also the recipient of the 2012 Ontario Craft Brewers Centre of Excellence Industry Choice Award in Food & Beer Matching Development.In 2008, Amato founded Beerology, a company through which she offers guided beer tastings, staff training and consulting. Amato is the co-founder of the Toronto based cask ale advocacy group Cask!. She is also the founder of the Toronto Chapter of the women-only international beer-appreciation society, Barley’s Angels Amato has appeared on CBC Radio, History Television, CityTV's Breakfast Television Canada.com and writes regularly for TAPS Magazine. She also contributed a number of entries to the Oxford Companions to Beer. Her first book, Beerology: Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Beer…Even More, published by Appetite by Random House, was released on May 27, 2014.
