Mirella Amato is a trilingual

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consultant,

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, and author based in

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, a foremost specialist on

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. She was the first woman in

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to become a Certified

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and, in 2012, became the first non-US resident to earn the Master Cicerone® certification. Amato is one of very few judges in the

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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 and in 2018 she was inducted into the Belgian brewers' Guild as an Honorary Knight of the Brewer's Paddle. In 2008, Amato founded Beerology, a company through which she offers craft beer and sensory consulting services. Amato is the co-founder of the Toronto-based cask ale advocacy group Cask!. She is also the founder of the Toronto Chapters of the women-only international beer-appreciation society, Barley's Angels as well as its professional counterpart, the Pink Boots Society. Amato has appeared on

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, Radio Canada,

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, CityTV's

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and Canada.com She also contributed a number of entries to the

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to Beer. Her first book, Beerology: Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Beer...Even More, published by Appetite by

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, was released on May 27, 2014 and has been translated into French and

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References

External links

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