After two months of mashing, lautering, fermenting and filtering, the wait is over: Camden VERSUS Cloudwater is finally here! Our take on a Märzen (an amber lager) is ready to go this week, and we’re pretty excited about it here at the brewery. Brewed with our friends from Cloudwater Brew Co. back in March, it’s finally time to launch it to the rest of the world (at least in London, Brighton and around Manchester, that is).

You would think having six different malts (Pilsner, Munich, Vienna, Carared, Caraaroma and Carafa Special III) would give a sweet, thick flavour to the beer, but instead it has a crisp, round-bodied flavour without being sweet (our brewers Alex and Rob described it like eating a piece of brown toasted bread spread with a spicy orange marmalade). We ended up dry-hopping it with more traditional German hops, Magnum and Mittlefrüh, which helped the nutty malt flavours really shine through. With an ABV of 6.6% and a gorgeous amber-orange colour, we’re not sure if there’ll be enough left to sell outside the Brewery Bar – we love it that much.