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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7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Keg at wee vault. Pours hazy pink, nose is creamy, berries, lemon, custard, taste is tart juicy berry, sweet, creamy.8/8/8/8/7
Tried on 18 Apr 2026 at 10:14

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7
Keg at wee vault. Pours deep ruby, nose is elderberry, pear, floral, grassy, taste is sweet, berries, floral, juicy pear. 8/7/8/7/7
Tried on 18 Apr 2026 at 10:14

7.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Keg at wee vault. Pours hazy reddish amber, nose is funk, smoked meat, berry, taste is smoky, meaty, tart, zesty fruit, funk. 7/7/8/8/7
Tried on 18 Apr 2026 at 10:13

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Keg at wee vault. Pours deep red, nose is peach, rhubarb, berries,cream, taste is sweet, fruity, creamy. 8/8/7/7/7/
Tried on 18 Apr 2026 at 10:13

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Dose 0,44l (Beyond Beer-Adventskalender): Kräftiges Bernstein, deutliche Trübung, kräftiger stabiler mittelporiger Schaum; sehr frische + sehr fruchtige Nase, fruchtige Süße, kräftige fruchtige Säure, Mango, Maracuja, Traubensaft, Malz, leicht kräutrig, kräftig Vanille, Kokos, leichte Hefearomen, fruchtig-säuerliche Bitterkeit; sehr frischer + sehr fruchtiger Körper, kräftige fruchtige Säure, Zitrusnoten, Mango, Maracuja, Limetten, Traubensaft, kräftig Malz, kräftig Vanille, etwas Kokos, sehr cremig, moderate Kohlensäure, leicht kräutrige Hopfennoten; fruchtig-säuerlicher Nachgang
Tried from Can from Beyond Beer on 18 Apr 2026 at 09:14

9/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 9 Overall 9
Can at home. Pours black, nose is huge roasted coffee, meaty, chocolate, caramel, taste is chewy, chocolate, meaty, coffee, roasted, light bitterness. 9/9/9/9/9
Tried on 17 Apr 2026 at 07:25

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can at home. Pours deep red, nose is cherry, cinnamon, cola, cream, taste is tart cherry, funk, sweet, creamy, cola. 8/8/8/8/7.5
Tried on 17 Apr 2026 at 07:24

5.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 5 Overall 5
On tap at Cardinal, Stavanger. Hazy deep red to purple colour, moderate off-white to pink head. Aroma of Dr. Pepper, some cherries. Moderately sour flavour of Cherry Coke with alcohol. Oh well .... could have been worse.
Tried from Draft at Cardinal on 17 Apr 2026 at 04:41

Tried from Draft at The Wolf on 16 Apr 2026 at 23:00

5.6/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 5.5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Cloudy, rusty-orange in colour with a white head. Excellent lacing. Smells like multivamin, a touch of vanilla, and a slight acidity. Medium body and carbonation, creamy consistency. Very sour at first, then a candy-like sweetness, a touch of vanilla, as if you were pouring a instant powdered drink into your mouth. It also definitely lacks beer flavour. Zero bitterness. Not what I expected, not for me.
Tried from Can from Sainsbury's (Various locations) on 16 Apr 2026 at 12:06