Vault City

Microbrewery in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Associated with 2 Venues
Associated Webshop: Vault City

Established in 2018

Contact
A1 Industrial Park, Unit 2, Sir Harry Lauder Road, Portobello, Edinburgh, EH15 2QA, Scotland
Description
Mixed fermentation brewery specialising in locally sourced, heavily fruited and hop-forward beers with a sense of place and seasonality.

Big flavours and bright colours, that’s what you can expect from Vault City Brewing. We’re the UK’s biggest sour beer producer and we’ve been making fruit-forward, modern sour beers in Edinburgh since 2018.

Our mixed fermentation style and distinctive house culture create the perfect base for real fruit ingredients, which gives our beer its intense aroma and flavour, not to mention the eye-catching colours.

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6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Thick rosy-cream head over indeed pitch black beer. Black cherries, black chocolate, raspberries, chocolate icecream with strawberry/raspberry/vanilla flavours. Very lightly sourish fruitflavours, on top of black, if not very bitter chocolate. Lactose is also obvious in taste and MF. Well-filled, creamy and good carbonation. However, it feels lighter than a 6.5% stout would warrant. Oh well. Certainly not my idea of a sour whatever.

Tried from Can from Borger Bottles on 22 Mar 2026 at 09:21


8

Tried from Can on 21 Mar 2026 at 22:00


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Utseende: Mørk rødlig.
Lukt: Jordbær.
Smak: Jordbær.
Skum/kullsyre: Tynt Dekkende skum, heng.
Medium: Rating:8-6-6-6-6=6.3, Draft@250ml, ABV@4.5%, Når@2026.03.21.
Hvor: Mellombels Ølstove, Bryne
Navn: Chocolate Dipped Strawberries
Stil: SOUR / WILD BEER - FLAVOURED
Bryggeri: Vault City

Tried from Draft at Mellombels Ølstove on 21 Mar 2026 at 16:39


7

Tried on 21 Mar 2026 at 13:20


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Dose 0,44l: Kräftiges Orange, glasklar, sehr kräftiger + sehr stabiler feinporiger Schaum; frische +, sehr fruchtige Nase, kräftige Süße, leichte fruchtige Säure, dezente Zitrusnoten, Mandarinen, kräftig nach "Irn Bru", etwas Malz, süße-fruchtige Bitterkeit; frischer + fruchtiger Körper, leichte Süße, kräftige fruchtige Säure, Zitrusnoten, Limetten, Orangen, Mandarinen, deutlich aber nicht penetrant nach "Irn Bru", etwas Malz, spritzig, moderate Kohlensäure, etwas Vanille; fruchtig-säuerlicher Nachgang

Tried from Can from Craftbeer Shop on 21 Mar 2026 at 07:46


8.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Draught @ SKAAL Sønderborg. Pours cloudy very dark brown with little dark tan head. Clear aroma of cake, caramel, and malt, with hints of yeast. Intensely sweet flavour of caramel, with touches of malt and alcohol and notes of egg liquor. Roasty and fudgey aftertaste. Warming alcohol presence. So sweet that it must be every teddy bear’s favourite. Yummy but heavy. Goodnight :)

Tried from Draft on 20 Mar 2026 at 22:35


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Can at Old Dairy Taproom Tenterden. Cloudy pink colour. Lasting white head. Raspberry flavour. Cm taste the frosting on top of the cake. Some sourness on the finish. Some vanilla. Some raspbery. It works . Shouldn't but

Tried from Can on 20 Mar 2026 at 13:38


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Cardinal, Stavanger. Hazy yellow colour, moderate white head. Aroma of apples, cinnamon and mango. Rich smoothie mouthfeel. Flavour like the aroma, also notes of honey. Hints of chili warmth.

Tried from Draft at Cardinal on 19 Mar 2026 at 23:08



8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

keg at the wee vault ...dark black ...no head ..sweet coffee chocolate roast malts nose ..deep thivk smooth chocolate roast malts

Tried on 18 Mar 2026 at 15:55