beer sommelier

Beer sommeliers understand and advise on styles, brewing and best pairing of beers with foods in locations such as restaurants, breweries and shops. They know all about their ingredients, the history of the beers, glassware and draught systems. They prepare beer tastings, consult companies and customers, evaluate beer products and write about this subject.

The most in-demand skills for this role include biotechnology, beer downstream processing, variety of beers, fermentation processes of beverages, brewhouse processes, ingredients for beer production. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives beer sommelier a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.