About

Christina "The Beer Chick" Perozzi, Beer Sommelier, Consultant and Author

Named "Best Beer Sommelier" in Los Angeles by Los Angeles Magazine, Christina Perozzi has gained a large following as the top female beer expert in the United States.

She was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Graduating with degrees in journalism from Indiana University, Christina realized her affinity for the beer world while managing the famous Father’s Office in Santa Monica, California. Seeing the need for beer education everywhere, she founded the popular website Beer for Chicks to spread the good word of craft beer everywhere. In that endeavor she also started working as a consultant, a beer educator, a writer and beer sommelier in 2006.

Christina has been featured on Evan Kleiman’s popular radio show on KCRW, Good Food, and was also featured as guest host for a segment of KNBC’s TV show Your LA and as a guest expert on Los Angeles’s KTLA Morning Show and KCBS’s Evening News. She has been featured in Gourmet Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Patterson’s Tasting Panel, Daily Candy, Urban Daddy, YumSugar.com, Metromix.com, and the Thrillist as well as Forbes.com, Delta Sky Magazine, Yahoo! Food, Metromix, Angeleno Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Imbibe Magazine, Eating Well Magazine, and Market Watch.

Christina gives beer tastings, seminars, and classes and also teams with chefs from around Los Angeles hosting beer pairing dinners. Christina’s consulting clients include Celebrity Chef Govind Armstrong’s 8 oz., Rustic Canyon Winebar & Seasonal Kitchen, Violet Restaurant, The Library Bar, Laurel Tavern, Charlie’s Malibu, and the Essex in Hollywood.

She also lends her beer talents for charitable organizations such as Heal the Bay, Break the Cycle, and the Geffen Theater. Christina’s mission is to dispel the myths that women have about beer and to bring beer to the forefront of modern dining.

She is the co-author of The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer, published by The Penguin Group. It is available for presale and will be available in bookstores everywhere in November 2009.

Christina lives by the credo: Beer is Good.