Em Sauter

Contributing Editor

Em Sauter launched her award-winning website Pints and Panels, an illustrative platform in beer, which led to writing for VinePair, Craft Beer and Brewing, Forbes, Good Beer Hunting, Pellicle, Outside, and All About Beer. Getting to travel all over the world as an International Beer Judge is a real highlight. She has judged on five continents and is the author of Beer is for Everyone! (of Drinking Age) published in 2017 by One Piece Books, Hooray for Craft Beer! published in 2022 by Brewers Publications, Pints and Panels: Una Guia Ilustrada de Estilos Cerveceros a Spanish language book by Libros de Guarda, and Pairing Beer With Everything! which was published by P&P Press in 2024.

She is an Advanced Cicerone as well as WSET Level 2 in Spirits. Her work has won a few North American Guild of Beer Writers awards as well as 3rd place in the British Guild of Beer Writers awards for her 2nd book. She was named a 40 under 40 in Wine Enthusiast in 2016. Find her at  @pintsandpanels for all social media and on LinkedIn.

Pints of Depiction: Impossible Beer Pairings

An illustrated guide to seemingly difficult beer and food pairings, soup to dessert.