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Canadian Career Gal – Online
Posted June 8, 2012 | 1:49 am, by Mirella
I can’t say that I have a typical workday. On days when I am not conducting a beer tasting, doing staff training in pubs, or on-site consulting for breweries, I am usually either at home or at CSI Annex, researching beer or working an a range of beer-related projects…
Advantage Magazine
Posted April 5, 2012 | 10:08 pm, by Mirella
I never understood why people aren’t more adventurous in the beers that they drink. A lot of people just have one brand, and they stick to it. A lot of bars are restricted in what they carry. Furthermore, I’m surprised to find out how many people don’t know that craft beer is even out there…
How to host a beer tasting at home
Posted March 20, 2012 | 2:48 pm, by Mirella
This weekend, as a part of a St. Patrick’s Day feature on beer, there were two articles in the Globe and Mail Style section for which I was interviewed: The first is a practical guide about how to throw a beer tasting at home. The fine folk at the Globe and Mail approached me about providing information for this piece and I thought it was a fantastic idea! In this article, you will find all of the information necessary to […]
Globe and Mail
Posted March 16, 2012 | 3:12 pm, by Mirella
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
Posted March 16, 2012 | 3:11 pm, by Mirella
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…
Beerology Off-Flavour Workshop featured in the Grid!
Posted February 23, 2012 | 1:53 pm, by Mirella
There’s a fun write-up in the Grid about the Off-Flavour Beer Tasting Workshops that I’ve been running since last fall. As I mentioned in a previous post, these off-flavour sessions are a great way for beer enthusiasts, brewers, homebrewers and people who work with or around beer to learn about off-flavours. What is an off-flavour? An off-flavour is an aroma or flavour in beer that should not be there. Sometimes it is one that would be alright if it wasn’t […]
The Grid
Posted February 23, 2012 | 1:22 pm, by Mirella
“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
Posted October 14, 2011 | 2:15 am, by Mirella
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
Posted October 3, 2011 | 1:50 am, by Mirella
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
Posted October 3, 2011 | 1:47 am, by Mirella
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…