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Toronto Star
Date Published: 09/10 | From the Stage to the Brewery
It isn’t everyday one meets a former opera singer who’s also a self-professed beer geek. But beer drinkers across Canada are grateful that Mirella Amato stepped off the opera stage to launch Beerology, a Toronto-based consulting firm devoted to all things beer, including beer lectures and guided beer-tasting sessions…
Chronicle Herald
Date Published: 08/10 | Beer tours for women only (PDF)
Giving new meaningto LadiesNight, the Halifax SeaportBeerFestis is this year concentrating on women. The fourth annual festival, held today and Saturday on the Halifax waterfront, hasbrought in beer connoisseur Mirella Amato to run the Ladie’s VIP Brew Tour…
Metro Halifax
Date Published: 08/10 | 5 Minutes With: Mirella Amato
Halifax is home to many an arm-bender, and it will play host to a very special one this weekend for Halifax Seaport Beerfest. Mirella Amato was Canada’s first certified beer judge. Metro caught up with her as she prepares for the two-day event…
Le Métropolitain
Date Published: 08/10 | Une sommelière en bière part à la conquête du Canada
Ils sont seulement sept au Canada, dont une seule femme, et ils doivent acquérir leur certification aux États-Unis. Mirella Amato est cette unique sommelière en bière au pays et elle déploie tous les efforts afin d’enrichir les connaissances élémentaires de la population vis-à-vis de la bière…
St Catharine Standard
Date Published: 08/10 | Singing the Praises of Beer
Being a lover of all things beer may stem from Mirella Amato’s French Canadian roots. The soon-to-be Niagara College brewmaster program instructor traces her family lineage back to the first settlers in Canada at a time when everyone brewed their own beer…
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Date Published: 07/10 | Wait ‘till you tour this fest, ladies (pdf)
You know what would be cool? Getting a guided tour of five of the most delicious beers at the Toronto Festival of Beer. Here’s the thing: it actually exists. But a lad like me is ineligible, because it’s for women-only, led by beer lecturer Mirella Amato…
Canadian Press
Date Published: 06/10 | Opera Singer Taps Into Passion for Beer
Canada lost a budding opera singer when Mirella Amato switched careers to become a beer sommelier. Four years ago, while living in Naples, Italy, the Toronto soprano had to make a choice between spending all her time overseas performing or returning to Canada…
Women’s Post – Online
Date Published: 05/10 | Woman of the Week
…Canada’s first female beer sommelier, Mirella Amato is breaking boundaries personally and professionally by turning her passion for beer into a full-time career. Some of us have our personal favourite, and no matter the day, time, weather, setting or meal, we order that same old beer…
Voir
Date Published: 06/09 | Bières d’ailleurs (PDF)
L’experte en bières ontariennes, journaliste et conférencière Mirella Amato vient communiquer sa passion pour les bières artisanales de sa province au Mondial de la bière. Elle nous invite à plusieurs conférences-dégustations pour partir à la découverte des trésors de micro-brasseries ontariennes…
Sheridan Sun – Online
Date Published: 03/08 | From Beer to Eternity (PDF)
Fruit beers, wheat beers, pale ales, barley wines, imperial stouts, smoked oatmeal stout, even a double chocolate cherry stout… these are just some of the many options out there in the world of beer that you won’t see from watching the TV commercials…