Dogfish Head Craft Brewery said its new SuperEight brand, designed for lifestyle enthusiasts. It will be available at retail in April.
It’s 5.3% ABV and made prickly pear, mango, boysenberry, blackberry, raspberry, elderberry, kiwi juices and a touch of quinoa, along with an ample addition of Hawaiian sea salt.
It’s named after Kodak SuperEight film, and was developed to be able to process, Kodak Super 8 film. In 2018, Sam Calagione, founder, recorded an episode of Kodak’s podcast The Kodakery, discussing analog processes in the digital age.
During the podcast, Calagione learned that the heightened levels of acidity and vitamin C in certain beers could make them an ideal processing agent for film. The Dogfish R&D team was working to create a new beer that had a similar profile and unique ingredient bill to the liquid needed for developing film. SuperEight was born and specifically designed to process Kodak Super 8 Film.
Early batches of the beer were sent to Kodak to begin development. A series of tests were done, and they successfully proved SuperEight can act as a film developer.