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Globe and Mail
Date Published: 03/12 | Meet the woman who is breaking Canada’s beer standards
There are only eight certified beer sommeliers in Canada and all of them are male – save one. A makeup artist before she became a cicerone, as her profession is called, Mirella Amato admits she’s an anomaly. “Although there are definitely a lot more women in the local beer industry than when I started…
Globe and Mail
Date Published: 03/12 | 16 steps to help you throw the best beer tasting party
If the thought of a pub crawl leaves you cold, celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a new kind of gathering: a tasting party centred on premium beers…Globe Style outlines how it’s all done with the help of Mirella Amato, a certified beer sommelier and the first woman in Canada to hold the designation…
The Grid
Date Published: 02/12 | When beer goes bad
“I brought along something that makes beer taste like dirty draught lines, in case people want to geek out later,” Mirella Amato tells her class of nine students on an early February night. A few of them look up, nod, then return their noses to the small plastic cups they’re cradling in their hands…
Spotlight Toronto – Online
Date Published: 10/11 | Savour Stratford 2011 - Beerology 101
As one of the world’s oldest alcoholic beverages and one of the few safe sources of drinking water prior to the industrial revolution, beer deserves more respect than it often gets. Certified beer judge, writer, educator and promoter of Ontario and Quebec craft beer Mirella Amato is doing her part to change that…
Choco-locate – Online
Date Published: 09/11 | Chocolate and Beer Pairing
When most folks think about the perfect pairing to chocolate, the plain Jane’s or traditionalists head straight to the fridge for a tall glass of milk. Boring! And then we have our connoisseurs, who start thinking red- wine that is. But what about beer? That’s right…
The Toronto Sun
Date Published: 08/11 | Beer tours for ladies only
The 36-year-old Toronto beer connoisseur — known as a cicerone — will be giving guided beer tours at Toronto’s 17th annual Festival of Beer at Exhibition Place, where 30,000 beer lovers are expected to congregate during the weekend. Amato, who started enjoying craft beers during her university years…
Xtra! – Online
Date Published: 08/11 | Ace of Base and ales for all at the Queer Beer Festival
…Mirella Amato is a cicerone of beers, the equivalent of a wine sommelier, and the founder of beerology.ca. She says people shouldn’t be embarrassed about liking different beers; they should be open to trying any kind, sweet or not. “I drew a connection between the kinds of beers that are being marketed…
fab Magazine
Date Published: 07/11 | Queers Beers & Rears (PDF)
Beer is a fantastic, delicious and complex beverage,” says Mirella Amato, the founder of Beerology, a company that focuses on beer education. “We have such an amazing selection available in Ontario right now. I think people are curious to find out more, what beers they like and why.”…
Toronto Star
Date Published: 06/11 | Battle of the Beers
As Pierre Levert sipped one of two Kolsch-style ales before him, he had no doubt which one was from Quebec. “I’m not chauvinist, but I prefer this one, because it has so much more flavour. There’s a lot more bitterness. It’s from Quebec for sure,”…
Best Health – Online
Date Published: 10/10 | The health benefits of beer
…“There’s a strong association between beer and the beer belly, so people automatically assume that beer is fattening or unhealthy,” says beer sommelier Mirella Amato, who specializes in the selection and service of ales. “But that’s just not true.” Shocking, isn’t it? But consider this…