Founded in 2014, we brewed our first beers on February 14th 2015. In our short history, we have made hundreds of different beers in styles old and new, classical and imagined, evolving our brewing skills, honing our sensory evaluation techniques and trialling fermentation and process changes in pursuit of ever higher-quality beer.
Our work at Cloudwater centres on helping you relax and unwind with the finest quality modern beers we can make. We employ all the passion, skills, dreams, and experience of our team and harness up-to-the-minute brewing science and techniques. This is done with respect for the ingredients our suppliers work hard to grow and process and with gratitude for your support and trust.
Outside our range of evolving and one-off seasonal beers, we also produce modern takes on classic styles and we collaborate with some of the world’s best breweries. We honour those that trail-blaze around us and that pioneered before us with a constant focus on quality and innovation.
We’re devoted to offering you value through bold, precise flavours, bottomless drinkability and consistency from one beer to the next.
Our beer is brewed and packaged in our brewery in central Manchester. Our 24hL Premier Stainless Systems brewhouse and 18 fermentor 840hL cellar allow us to work with precision and consistency. Our Cask canning line and sub 5ºC cold store allow us to package and store our beer with the minimum degradation of flavour or quality. Our barrel store is visible from the mezzanine in our Unit 9 taproom where we currently have 245 barrels and 3 5000L foudres.
We are independently owned and directed by our co-founder Paul Jones and are committed to running an ethically conscious, human-centred business, with values that we all hold dear. Our intention is to support and nurture the food, drink and creative communities in Manchester, showcase the passion for innovation and ambition in the North and help the UK lead the way in honouring tradition whilst pushing boundaries and evolving tastes through modern, seasonal beer.
The future of modern British beer springs forth from our efforts today. You have our word that behind every beer is work to evolve, develop and educate, to ensure the future of the industry and your beer experiences reach the highest highs.
