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Dogfish releases SuperEight with heroic ingredients

March 30, 2019

For beer evangelists who enjoy imbibing with a purpose, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery has created a new super beer specifically designed for active lifestyle enthusiasts interested in incorporating high-quality ingredients in their beer choices.

SuperEight is a super-refreshing, sessionable super Gose. At 5.3 percent ABV, this unique beer is made with eight heroic ingredients including prickly pear, mango, boysenberry, blackberry, raspberry, elderberry, kiwi juices and a touch of quinoa, along with an ample addition of Hawaiian sea salt. Brimming with hardworking ingredients, SuperEight was brewed to harness the powerful goodness of all-natural fruits. It’s fresh, it’s delicious, and it will be available nationally in 6pk/12oz cans in early April. Vibrant red in color, this super Gose has a slightly tart taste and pleasantly refreshing finish, with delicious flavors of berries and watermelon. 

“We’re comin’ at ya with so much juicy flavor with the latest release of our new Gose, SuperEight,” said Sam Calagione, founder and CEO of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery. “With the meteoric success of SeaQuench Ale growing to be the best-selling sour beer in America, we learned from consumers that approachable, refreshing, super-flavorful beers are what they’re seeking when making choices about beverages. We’re listening, we heard you, and we think you’re going to love our wildly delicious SuperEight.”

Dogfish Head developed the inspiration for this beer with friends from Kodak. In 2018, Calagione joined Kodak, a world-class technology company, to record an episode of its podcast The Kodakery, discussing analog processes in the digital age. During the podcast, Calagione learned that heightened levels of acidity and vitamin C in certain beers could make them ideal processing agents for film. As luck would have it, 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. And just like that, it 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 was done, and they successfully proved that SuperEight can act as a film developer.

Calagione is planning an epic, Dogfish port-to-port boat trip up the East Coast this summer. He’ll be documenting part of his adventure on Super 8 film, which will be developed in SuperEight beer and turned into a short film. More details on the trip will be announced on Earth Day, Monday, April 22.

For more information, go to www.dogfish.com and www.kodak.com/go/dogfish.

 

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