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.
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.
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
On tap at The Taps in Beaconsfield, Bucks. An off white coloured pour with an interesting medium bubbly white head on top. Coconut, banana, lime, slightly sour. A fun sour smoothie.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Feb 2026
at 22:07
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
440ml can. Pours very dark brown with a small head. Aroma is milk chocolate and vanilla, slightly cloying. Taste has milk chocolate throughout with a vanilla on the finish. Slightly artifical and cloying in places.
Tried
from Can
from
Morrisons Supermarket (Various locations)
on 12 Feb 2026
at 21:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Dark amber with a medium tan head. Aroma of hazelnut malt. Flavour is chocolate, velvet texture, nutty, sweet, creamy chocolate base.
Tried
from Can
from
McHughs OffLicence
on 12 Feb 2026
at 00:00
8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 9
Can from Old Dairy Taproom Tenterden and drunk at home. Black beer lasting dark tan head. Cocoa powder chocolate aroma Some booze aroma. Thick in the mouth. Light booze. Good chocolate mocha coffee flavour. Light burn on the finish. I liked it. Good thick chocolate coffee flavour. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Feb 2026
at 18:41
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Can as an Xmas present and drunk at home. Murky dark red colour lasting pink beige head. Spice on the aroma and some fruit. Decent enough. Some sweetness. Its somewhere between a sour and a sweet fruit beer. Spice throughout some bitterness on the finish. Fruit is lovely. Yes i can see this being the fruit filling in a fedtivf crumble. Pretty decent.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Feb 2026
at 18:17
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Can at home picked up from Tesco, Supermarche A jet black dark brown coloured pour with a loose dark tan head, Aroma is hazelnut cream, toasted, nutella, bark, Biscuit. Flavour is composed of semi sweetr, oily, creamy nutella, maple brown sugars, oily. Palate is medium sweert, oily, creamy, mellow carbonation. Nice. pastitsio. creamy dubai chocolate. nice.
Tried
on 09 Feb 2026
at 00:35
5.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 5
Overall 5
Pink smoothie texture, pours quite thick, no head. Aroma of chocolate raspberries. Flavour is fruit smoothie, cherry and tart raspberry. Creamy base, weird beer.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Feb 2026
at 23:28
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Can at home picked up from Tesco supermarche. An opaque dark black brown coloured pour with a lasting loose light tan head. Aroma is semi sweet, semi sweet, toasted honeycomb, soapy, brown sugars, lactose, milk chocolate oats. Creany. Flavour is composed of medium sweet, salty toffee, honeycomb salted caramel, lactose sweetness, some burnt sugar,. Palate is medium sweet, full and creany, mellow carbonation. Little oily. Fun but 440ml is too much.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Feb 2026
at 21:15
8.6/10
Blueberry, raspberry, tart, fruity and sour
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Feb 2026
at 18:21
5/10
Tried
from Can
on 08 Feb 2026
at 14:35