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.
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.
5.6/10
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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
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught at Craft Beer Helsinki, Wanha Satama 2026.
Poured red/purple color, not much head.
Turkinpippuri nose with raspberry notes. Balanced, light sour, fresh. Not overpowering. Good.
Poured red/purple color, not much head.
Turkinpippuri nose with raspberry notes. Balanced, light sour, fresh. Not overpowering. Good.
Tried
on 16 Apr 2026
at 12:03
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tap at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours dark orange, hazy/opaque, with limited, finger white foam. Aroma is fruity, citrus, tangerine. Body and carbonation are average. Taste is a nice mix of average sweetness and delicate sour. Final is mostly sweet.
Tried
from Draft
at
Fob
on 15 Apr 2026
at 17:09
2.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 0.5
Flavor 0.5
Texture 7
Overall 1
On tap at Cardinal, Stavanger. Pours hazy dark pinkish red with little pink head. Aroma of artificial generic fruit aroma. Tastes sweet and sour. Thin bodied, sour finish. Terrible drink, don't even think of trying it - you have been warned!
Tried
from Draft
at
Cardinal
on 13 Apr 2026
at 17:39
6.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 5.5
440ml can after Cassel Trophy 2026. Pours black, with a stable glass-filling tan head. Aroma brings to mind the crispy shell of mini eggs with its poor quality chocolate following through on the finish, though it seems to settle into a marshmallow flavour that's not particularly welcome. Ok for what it tries to be.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Apr 2026
at 06:35
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
440ml can at 8.4%. Pours hazy deep red with a large head. Aroma is sweet and sour strawberry jam. Taste has sour strawberry jam throughout with some hibiscus on the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Apr 2026
at 20:06
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Bieraterie. Murky rhubarb. Vanilla ice cream, rhubarb, cream. Nice and tart and vanilla and fruity, but not too sweet, and not sticky. Light. I like this. Also: Totally strawberry Fruchtzwerge.
Tried
from Draft
at
Bieraterie Partenkirchen
on 11 Apr 2026
at 17:48
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap at Bieraterie Partenkirchen after light milky pale pink, offwhite cream. Perfumed strawberries, candy version, a bit rhubarb astringency, medium bodied, sweet, light tartness, pleasant, not too extreme.
Tried
from Draft
at
Bieraterie Partenkirchen
on 11 Apr 2026
at 17:41
6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Cardinal, Stavanger. Hazy pale yellow colour, large white head. Aroma of real pear and elderflower. Medium sour flavour with the same elements, also lactic acid.
Tried
from Draft
at
Cardinal
on 10 Apr 2026
at 23:10
Tried
from Draft
at
Kingsmead Street Bottle
on 10 Apr 2026
at 23:00