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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8.4
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Can web SB 2025-12-30 Göteborg AR: sour raspberries, sweet cherries, fresh strawberries, wee sponge AP: milky purple red, no head F: sour raspberries, sweet cherries, fresh strawberries, wee sponge

Tried from Can from Systembolaget webbeställning on 30 Dec 2025 at 14:13


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

Shared with my brother and wife during the new naked gun. When cold there was a surprising amount of acidity which was a bit odd, but that disappeared as it warmed up. Very sweet, with malt and sugar contributing. Lovely Ethiopian coffee gives a medium roasted coffee flavour with fruity notes, very nice. Very sweet but lovely flavour and texture, with the coffee shining.

Tried from Can on 29 Dec 2025 at 22:40


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Tried from Can on 29 Dec 2025 at 14:38


6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Puh, wasn't expecting that. Cherry, raspberry red, soft drink appearance, 0 head. Cherry nose with hints of strawberry and raspberry. Sour, tart but sweet taste. Very cherry but creamy, almost like a cherry milkshake. Sweet rbalances the sour. Cream soda taste from the lactose. Well balanced and interesting but too sweet to be drinkable for my tastes.

Tried on 28 Dec 2025 at 22:52


6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 7

440ml can at Tønne, Leicester. Light pink and hazy with a swirl of white head. Sweet raspberry, candy sugar, sugared orange slices on the nose. Taste is superficially sweet butalso soured with more raspberry, some cherry, candy floss. Inconsequential weight on the body with carbonation on the low side. Fun.

Tried from Can at Tønne on 28 Dec 2025 at 18:46


7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

keg at the wee vault ...hazy amber ..thin white lacing ...soft sweet tropical fruit nose ..soft sweet fruit ..tart berries ..long tart fruit ..big sharp fruit

Tried on 28 Dec 2025 at 12:09


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

pink ..thin white lacing ..soft sweet fruits ...soft sweet fruit . soft sweet caramel berries

Tried on 28 Dec 2025 at 12:08


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

440ml can. Pours very dark brown with a small head. Aroma is sweet honeycomb and roast. Taste has sweet, slightly artifical honeycomb and some milk chocolate.

Tried from Can from Tesco Supermarket (Various locations) on 27 Dec 2025 at 20:22


6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Keg at Heidrun, HWY, 27/12/2025.
Hazed pinkish to a lighter shade of red with a faint crimson cap.
Nose is jammy berries, straw, herb, hedgerow.
Taste comprises tangy strawberries, berry pips, grass, tangy berries, faint acidic nip.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close.
Typical low ABV VC sour ... fine if somewhat directionless ... wouldn't choose it again though!

Tried on 27 Dec 2025 at 11:24


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6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 5

440ml can, Boxing Day 2025. Pours a cloudy red, good off-white head. Prominent strawberry, moderately full smooth mouthfeel.. no chocolate unfortunately and not especially sour. Would that have worked anyway? Maybe not. Would've scored higher as a simple strawberry fruit beer.

Tried from Can on 27 Dec 2025 at 08:57