Vault City
Microbrewery
in Edinburgh,
Edinburgh,
Scotland 🏴
Associated with 2 Venues
Associated Webshop: Vault City
Established in 2018
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.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Sour IPA Citra Ekuanot from Vault City 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 375ml. @ [ Pre-Borefts tasting 2018 ] by kermis in Kim Jong-Un Buurtcentrum Zaandam, Noord-Holland. [ As Vault City Sour IPA Citra Ekuanot ].Hazy matt medium yellow colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy and open, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, wheat, sulfur, citrus, tart fruit, citric. Flavor is moderate sweet, light to light light moderate acidic and light bitter with a average duration, tart, dough, sulfur, citrus, citric. Body is medium to light, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180920] 7-3-7-3-15
fonefan (84534) reviewed Elderflower Sour from Vault City 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 375ml. @ [ Pre-Borefts tasting 2018 ] by kermis in Kim Jong-Un Buurtcentrum Zaandam, Noord-Holland. [ As Vault City Elderflower Sour ].Hazy matt medium yellow colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, sweet malt, tart, flowers, elderflowers. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a average to long duration, tart, wheat, elderflowers, dough. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180920] 7-3-7-3-13
Stuu (34525) reviewed Edinburgh Imperial Stout from Vault City 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Keg at brewdog Lothian road. Pours black, nose is burnt toffee, chocolate, roasted, wood, taste is chewy, dark chocolate, liquorice, treacle, soy sauce, hint of marshmallow. --- Beer merged from original tick of Edinburgh Imperial Stout 2018 on 11 Jan 2019 at 12:26 - Score: 8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Off white collar on a clear golden body. Sweet citrus aroma. Medium to thin bodied, smooth on the palate. Grapefruit, citrus & sour tastes. Nice one
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 375ml. @ [ Pre-Borefts tasting 2018 ] by kermis in Kim Jong-Un Buurtcentrum Zaandam, Noord-Holland. [ As Vault City Tropical Sour ]. Murky medium orange yellow colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy mango, tropical fruit (peach - passion fruit), fruit juice. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a long duration, tart mango, tropical fruit (peach - passion fruit), fruit juice. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. IMO. not much beer to find here, but a lovely morning juice >;0). [20180920] 7-3-7-3-15
McCash (16021) reviewed Elderflower Sour from Vault City 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On keg at Brewdog Lothian Rd, Edinburgh. Appearance - murky yellow with hints of brown. Thin head. Nose - elderflower and sour lemon in the same note. Taste - salty asparagus, almost samphire. Intentional or not? Palate - long and lean and tangy throughout. Overall - challenging, original and very good.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Mango Sour from Vault City 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 375ml. @ [ Pre-Borefts tasting 2018 ] by kermis in Kim Jong-Un Buurtcentrum Zaandam, Noord-Holland. [ As Vault City Mango Sour ].Muddy medium orange colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to heavy mango, mango juice, tart, sour. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate acidic with a long duration, tart, sour, mango, mango juice. IMO not much to do with a beer, more like a morning juice - sour morning juice .... but a very tasty one >;0) Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. [20180920] 7-2-7-3-16
fonefan (84534) reviewed Strawberry Sour from Vault City 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 375ml. @ [ Pre-Borefts tasting 2018 ] by kermis in Kim Jong-Un Buurtcentrum Zaandam, Noord-Holland. [ As Vault City Strawberry Sour ].Hazy matt medium red colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, strawberry, tart, moderate yeasty, dough, seet yeast, tart fruit - berries. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a average duration, tart, sour, dough, strawberry, tart berries - fruit. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180920] 7-2-8-3-15
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Sour DIPA Citra El Dorado from Vault City 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Keg at brewdog Lothian road.. Hazy Amber...Soft sharp funk dry zezty fruit nose... Light tart fruit nose... Soft sweet tropical fruit front.. Light dry tart sherbert floral fruit
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Strawberry Sour from Vault City 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
7th September 2018
Beaverfest. Keg. Cloudy strawberry colour beer, small apricot colour head. Palate is light and semi dry with decent fine carbonation. Nice light tart strawberry, ripe strawberry and strawberry sherbet. Light finish. Works well.