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.

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8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle from Westhill Service Station. It pours a lovely hazy deep red with a thick, fluffy white head. The aroma is full of freshly picked raspberry, juicy, slight jammy, tart, tangy, clean and bright. The taste is crisp, tart and puckering, zingy and clean, elegant fresh raspberry character, summer fruits, sherbet, light fruity acidity, jam and raspberry tart. Finish is dry, fruity and puckering. Medium body and moderate, velvety carbonation. Initially it feels quite mellow but the more I had the more vibrant and bright it was. Effortlessly drinkable.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jul 2020 at 14:52

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Bottle (7.4% ABV), gift from Emma. Murky orange body with a thin off-white head. No visible carbonation. Patchy lacing. Aroma of freshly squeezed orange juice and bubblegum. Flavour of fleshy mandarin, orange jelly and hop spice. Medium to full body with a smooth texture. Soft fizz. This is incredible - mega fruity and moreish. The sourness is pleasantly subtle.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jul 2020 at 20:55

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Looks indeed as freshly pressed orange juice for all the world, its natural pale orange-white collar included. Smells like oranges too... and not much else. Bitter orange, orangepeel, kumquat. Finish is pure orange juice. Aftertaste idem dito. Creamy texture - the oats. Still decent carbonatioin. And a bit refreshing - the juice overload. Seriously. Take orange juice, add all the zeste for the bitterness and a shot of lear neutral alcohol to 7.4%. I wonder about the difference in result, and as I like orange juice...
Tried from Bottle at Café Pardaf on 18 Jul 2020 at 08:49

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle from Westhill SS. It pours crazy cloudy deep orange with a thick, foamy white head. The aroma is fairly soft, sweet, stone fruits, apricot, persimmon, fruit smoothie, tangy gooseberry, citrus peel, slightly floral and a touch of kiwi. The taste is crisp and dry initially, then it softens, sweet tangy apricot, persimmon, peach, only a light sourness to it, fruit smoothie, citrus peel, grapefruit, gooseberry, white grape skin, floury bread, but of musty funk and a touch of alcohol. Medium+ body and moderate, foamy carbonation. Takes a while to open. Gun stuff, but not as vibrant as their usual often.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Jul 2020 at 11:42

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Bottle 375 ml, shared with Miro B, Max and Tomislav. Dark red, off white head. Intensive berries, juicy, some vanilla, bit sweetish, medium+ sourness. Medium bodied.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jul 2020 at 20:54

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle, 375 ml, shared with Miro B, Max and Tomislav. Hazy orange, medium white head. Juicy, lemon, orange, peach. Medium+ sourness. Medium bodied.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Jul 2020 at 21:21

6/10
bottle at home... murky amber... no lacing... soft dry chalky hop nose... Light dry bitter fruit hop... dty chalky.. unbalanced overhop for me.. dry grapefruit.. bitter chalky finish
Tried from Bottle on 10 Jul 2020 at 16:56

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bottle at home July 2020... murky ugly amber.. thin white lacing.. soft dry fruit nose.. oily tart apricot... dry finish... Light.. odd dustu musty hop... its ok but not doung anything fir me
Tried from Bottle on 06 Jul 2020 at 19:02

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Csña en Cimmeria 03..07..2020. Color amarillo anaranjado melocotón turbio con espuma blanca. Sabores frescis suaves acidos con toques afrutados de melocotones, alvaricoques y lijeros recuerdos de orejones o melocotones pasos. Cuerpo medio ligero facil de beber con poca sensacion alcohólica para su gradacion. Bastante buena para repetir sin duda alguna.
Tried on 03 Jul 2020 at 19:55

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Bottle at Nick's. Pours black, nose is almond, nutty, chocolate, roasted, taste is similar, quite bitter and dry.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Jul 2020 at 18:49