Mirella Amato

Mirella Amato is a trilingual beer consultant, beer sommelier, and award-winning author based in Toronto, Ontario, a foremost specialist on beer, with a focus on education, sensory analysis, and beer and food pairing. 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. 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 January 2025, Mirella became the second person in Canada and the first Master Cicerone to earn the title of Grand Master Judge with the Beer Judge Certification Program.