About Amanda Schuster
Amanda Schuster is a freelance writer and beverage industry consultant based in Brooklyn, New York. A trained sommelier, former wine and spirits retail buyer, skilled metalsmith, occasionally still a jewelry designer (mostly for repairs), and proud beauty school dropout with a medieval history degree from NYU, she has been writing professionally about the drinks industry as well as food and travel for nearly two decades. The author of three books, she was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of Alcohol Professor, and her work has published in Atlas Obscura, Liquor.com, Saveur, Inside Hook, Forbes, Bloomberg News, SevenFifty, Imbibe, Distiller.com, The Whiskey Wash, and many others. A 2023 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Award nominee for book writing, she has served as a tasting panel judge for Ultimate Spirits Challenge and the John Barleycorn Awards for spirits, and as a media and Timeless Committee judge for Tales of the Cocktail.
