7 aggressive dips into the carefully poured beer and only 3 snowflake dip into the Bill’s Beer Removal Service Shirt glass of beer. seriously you need to give up journalism and scientific research. Anyone can claim to be a beer sommelier. He’s a Master Cicerone. It’s a vigorous testing process. I’m level 1 – Certified Beer Server. Studying for level 2 – Certified Cicerone. 4 hours test with written and tasting components. Then level 3 – Advanced Cicerone and finally level 4 – Master Cicerone. It takes years of study to get there and there are only about 15 – 20 in the world who have earned the title of Master Cicerone.