Sake Brewery Tour of Hachinohe Shuzo
Sake Brewery Tour of Hachinohe Shuzo
Thursday, December 3rd, 6 pm
Hachinohe Shuzo, producers of the Mutsu Hassen brand of sake originated almost 300 years ago. Today, Hachinohe Shuzo is one of the most progressive and creative sake breweries, emphasizing environmentally-friendly, locally-sourced Aomori ingredients. Mutsu Hassen can be described as being elegantly aromatic with a full and rich ginjo style and a light, clean, refreshing finish.
Our program will feature a video tour of the brewery We will also get some insights about Hachinohe, a sea port town with so much history and culture, and of course, excellent seafood. Following our video tour, we will have a discussion with representatives of the brewery, so get ready to ask many questions about the sake making, the industry, the history or anything else sake. Sake expert David Sakamoto will host the program.
Sake tasting kits will feature four premium Mutsu Hassen sake for $30. Sign up to reserve your sake tasting kit.
Amy Sueyoshi is the Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies with a joint faculty appointment at the rank of Professor in Race and Resistance Studies and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. She holds a Ph.D. in history from University of California, Los Angeles and a B.A. from Barnard College of Columbia University. Amy has authored two books, Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Intimate Life of Yone Noguchi and Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American “Oriental.” She additionally wrote the section on API queer history titled “Breathing Fire” for the National Parks Foundation’s landmark LGBTQ theme study, which won the Paul E. Buchanan Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum. Amy served as a founding co-curator of the GLBT History Museum, the first queer history museum in the United States, and also seeded the Dragon Fruit Project, a community oral history project for API Equality Northern California, a queer Asian Pacific Islander advocacy group in San Francisco Chinatown. She has won numerous community recognitions including the Clio Award for her work in queer history and the Phoenix Award for her contribution to the Asian Pacific Islander queer women and transgender community. In 2017, San Francisco Pride honored Amy as a Community Grand Marshal.
Stan Yogi is co-author of the award-winning books Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California (2009) and Fred Korematsu Speaks Up (2017). He is the co-editor of two books, Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California’s Great Central Valley (1996) and Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography (1988). His essays have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Daily Journal and academic journals and anthologies. He co-curated the traveling exhibits Art of Survival: Enduring the Turmoil of Tule Lake and Wherever There’s a Fight: A History of Civil Liberties in California. He is a Co-Chair of Okaeri, a group of LGBTQ+-identified Japanese Americans.
