Vault City

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

Established in 2018

Contact
2 James Hamilton Way, Biocampus, Edinburgh, EH26 0BF, 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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7.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Can at home. Pours hazy amber, nose is lemon zest, peach, funk, taste is juicy, sweet, peach, zesty lemon. 7/7/8/8/7
Tried on 11 Aug 2026 at 13:07

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Can at home. Pours hazy pink, nose is raspberry, vanilla, funk, taste is tart raspberry, funk, cream, sweet. 8/7/7/7/7
Tried on 11 Aug 2026 at 08:05

8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, coffee, roasted, vanilla, taste is fruity, berries, chocolate, vanilla, roasted. 8/9/9/8/8
Tried on 11 Aug 2026 at 08:05

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Keg at wee vault. Pours clear golden, nose is grass, herbs, toffee, lemon, taste is juicy citrus, grassy, sweet. 6/6/7/7/7
Tried on 11 Aug 2026 at 08:04

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Keg at wee vault. Pours hazy amber, nose is coconut, cream, mango, banana, taste is sweet, creamy, coconut, a little aniseed. 7
Tried on 11 Aug 2026 at 08:02

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
440ml can. Pours hazy deep purple with a medium head. Aroma is sour pwar, cherry and cinnamon. A little white chocol and maple syrup. Taste has sour blackberry, cherry and pear through. A little cinnamon and apple pie on the aftertaste.
Tried from Can on 10 Aug 2026 at 19:56

7.5/10 Appearance 3 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can purchased at Wee Vault. This is interesting- so thick and turbid. Looks like pulpy orange juice. Aroma is rather amazing slushy crumble cake of pineapple, banana and crumb crust. Taste is similar with nice cinnamon on the finish. I’m not really rating this as a beer as opposed to a breakfast smoothie. One of the more interesting beers I’ve ever had.
Tried on 09 Aug 2026 at 20:36

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
440ml can. Pours thick pale pinky grey with no head. Aroma is sweet and sour strawberry milkshake and chocolate cookies. Taste has creamy strawberry milkshake throughout with a little cookie on the finish. Light sour strawberry notes.
Tried from Can on 09 Aug 2026 at 19:31

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Tried from Can from Brygshoppen ApS on 09 Aug 2026 at 17:40

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Can, #694, one year before bbd . Pours dirty, opaque red, with almost no head. Aroma is tart notes of blackberries, strawberries, candy, glazed doughnuts and lactose. Medium to full body, with very soft carbonation. Flavour is berries, candy, cake and caramels, as well as lactose and grassy minerals.
Tried from Can on 09 Aug 2026 at 09:46