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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6.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 6
Tasty stuff. Sweet, has a cotton candy vibe to it. Very basic. Generic dark malts, a few raisin. So so.
Tried from Can at Craft Beer Junction on 27 May 2026 at 19:48

6.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
A murky and pink beer, a head is small and blond. Aroma has red berries, sourness, liquorice candies. Taste has berries, light souness and peppery liquorice. Medium bodied. Could be more finnish peppery liquorice (turkinpippuri).
Tried from Can from K-Citymarket (Turku Kupittaa) on 27 May 2026 at 19:20

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
27th May 2026
Bottleshare at CBJ. Thanks to LKS doe for the can. Near clear opaque dark brown beer, small pale tan head. Smooth palate, soft, reasonable fine carbonation. Sweet dark malts, a little sweet dark chocolate. Candy dark chocolate. Candy fruits. Light semi dry finish.
Tried from Can on 27 May 2026 at 19:04

7.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Tried from Can on 27 May 2026 at 19:00

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
On tap at Cardinal (ground floor only), Stavanger. ABV is 8%. Fikk smakt den nå. Vel, den smaker ikke vondt, langt derifra. En tjuktflytende sak med rødlig-lilla farge. Duft og smak som en søt og fruktdominert drink. Men ØL? Vel, hvis man strekker begrepene langt nok ... Men hovedmålgruppen er nok dem som liker å gå amok i iskremdisken, samt i smågodthyllene på Europris.
Tried from Draft at Cardinal on 26 May 2026 at 00:33

440ml can. Pours opaque yellow gold with no head. Aroma is sour mango, apricot and passionfruit. Taste has passionfruit to start, with mango and coconut on the finish. Light sour notes.
Tried from Can from Wine Seller Compton on 24 May 2026 at 21:08

6.5/10
Just a bit too much mint menthol to finish.
Tried from Draft at Barking Cat Ale House on 24 May 2026 at 13:27

Tried at home
Tried from Can on 23 May 2026 at 23:00

8/10
Tried from Can on 23 May 2026 at 19:46

7.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Enjoyable overall. Has a jammy sweetness about it. Mellow citric bite. Limited tea vibes. Could do with a little less sweetness, but overall enjoyable. Doesn’t look like much, though, a bit murky.
Tried from Can from Clapton Craft on 23 May 2026 at 18:50