Wow, 10 years old and gone in a blink!
Reaching this milestone I hope you'll indulge use in looking back over the 10 years of Cloudwater; from the tap lists that featured a range of styles during our mini national tour beer launches in 2015, across all of the collaborations we’ve done internationally and at home, to our own festival and many beer launches over the years that sees us now approaching 2000 different brews and over 1500 different recipes!
Our 10th Birthday Beers are designed to be the perfect way to spend an evening celebrating with us, in one of our venues, with friends at your favourite stockist, or in good company at home.
We’re taking you on a journey from beer styles that made waves across the industry in our early years, to beers that span out over endless horizons into the future of this fine industry.
Without further ado, here's the lineup!
Repose: AF Pale
The beer world is changing, and for good reason. Gone are the headiest days when craft beer centred itself on hedonism and abandon. Thank goodness!
Adapting some of our favourite flavour experiences to be more mindful, less unhealthy, and more sustainable is nothing but a good thing. Brewing a quaffable AF Pale as part of our 10th Birthday beer set is really important to us.
Whether you’re abstaining from intoxication, drinking moderately, or keeping your drinking a little more under control this beer brings a new sense of inclusivity to our birthday celebration.
It Is And So It Was: Pale Ale
Our first ever beer was a Pale Ale, and it's a style that we’ve brewed more batches and more volume of than any other since we started brewing in 2015. Every shift our taproom team's work sees our favourite pale ales top their sales charts, and so we thought it was only right that your favourite beer style got our birthday beer treatment.
Cheers to delightful sessionable beer!
Shop It Is And So It Was | Pale Ale
Within Heaven and Earth, Through Space and Time, There is a Jewel, Hidden Inside the Mountain of Form: Amber Lager
Although we’re famous for our stronger and hoppier beer, we just can’t ignore all our customers that have shown love for our lager brewing since we first brewed the style back in 2015.
This Amber Lager riffs on collaborations we’ve brewed with Odell, Duration, Lost and Grounded, Notch, and Braybrooke and our early forays into brewing with a mix of traditional and modern hops, and recent work such as our Vienna Lager released late 2024.
The last of the truly pintable birthday releases, this beer is brewed to be both something you can geek out about, if that’s your thing, or just sup and talk and laugh over.
Beyond The Mirage: New England IPA
Well! An IPA! It had to be part of our birthday releases! With immense drinkability, we won’t judge if you pour this all into your favourite pint glass and sup it as a larger measure.
It’s brewed with a balanced medium body, juicy hoppiness, and spritzy, zesty drinkability. Slightly drier finishing than most of the sweeter IPAs on the market, we hope you’ll find this immensely pleasurable and effortlessly drinkable.
Shop Beyond The Mirage | NEIPA
Sitting For A Long Time Becomes Toilsome: Double Hopfenweisse
Many years before Cloudwater came into existence we were inspired by the brilliant minds of Hans-Peter Drexler of Schneiderweisse, and Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery, who came together to brew Hopfenweisse, a term fashioned by Garrett himself. The resulting beer stood out in a sea of UK hoppy beers made with restrained or entirely neutral yeasts - often contributing little flavour to the beer, left in the shadows of both hot and cold side hopping.
In our early days we looked at Hopfenwiesse as pointing to a bolder future of beer, where rich and protein heavy malt grists, forward-thinking modern hopping, and flavourful yeasts contributed their all as powerful, equally capable allies in pursuit of the most robust flavours in beer. Long before we even knew NEIPA was a thing, Hopfenweisse lit a bold trail in front of us.
We’re thrilled to present a Double Hopfenweisse as part of our birthday offering. Rich, bold, lightly spiced, big bodied and yet quaffable, and highly hopped, as you’ve come to rightly expect from us.
A New Beginning | TIPA
Having scheduled v18 into the production program some months ago, we knew we’d have to offer a big hitting hoppy beer, and we think we make some of the juiciest, cleanest, most impactful TIPAs in the land still, so here’s our latest effort!
At this ABV hoppiness jumps out of the glass, and the experience on your palate is everything these big hoppy beers were meant to be.
Refined over 8 years brewing at this strength, and at these hopping rates, we hope you enjoy every drop!