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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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7.8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
375ml bottle. Pours hazy deep purple with a large head. Aroma is bitter coffee, chocolate and sour blackberries. Taste has sour chocolate and blackberries throughout with a bitter coffee finish.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Sep 2020 at 19:51

8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
375ml bottle. Deep hazy purple with a vibrant pink head. Aroma of blueberries, and some floral notes. Taste is also very similar to blueberry, sweet and sour with a tart and slightly floral finish. Medium body and carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Sep 2020 at 17:25

7.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12th September 2020 Dark bruised cherry red beer, tiny tiny pale tan head. Palate is light and semi dry, good fine minerally crispness. Ripe black cherries and bold and well integrated almond. Very very good take on a cherry Bakewell, lacks a little pastry sweetness. Shame! Some cherry tartness on the light crisp finish. Yeah, works very well on a sour scale but is never defined by it. Tart fruity finish. Works for me, delivers the cherry almond vibe very well.
Tried on 12 Sep 2020 at 18:35

7/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle from Westhill Service Station. It pours hazy deep golden - orange with a frothy white head. The aroma is fresh, bright, zingy, tangy, sherbet, citrus fun times, yuzu, lemon-lime, satsuma and sour candy. The taste is tart, tangy, juicy, sour, musty, sweaty, quick thick, zingy citrus, yuzu, pithy satsuma, melon, greengage, lime, pineapple, some mid palate bitterness, some booze, pine, soor plooms and damp wood. Finish woody and tangy. Medium body and fine, foamy carbonation. Sits a bit heavy on the palate if truth be told. Decent enough, but a bit substandard for Vault City.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Sep 2020 at 15:14

8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
375ml bottle. Pours pinky orange with a large head. Aroma is strawberry jam, a little yoghurt and peach. Taste is very sweet strawberry jam throughout with a tart finish.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2020 at 21:06

7/10
Tried on 11 Sep 2020 at 16:25

8.5/10
Incredible ginger nose, clear rhubarb notes. More a fruit beer (typical of Vault City) than a sour, perhaps... nonetheless, yummy
Tried from Bottle on 10 Sep 2020 at 21:13

8.1/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
10/IX/20 - on tap @ Bar Beenhouwer (Gent), BB: n/a (2020-881)

Cloudy orange beer, dense creamy yellowish head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of lactobacillus, fruity, juicy, passion fruits, more passion fruit, ripe mango, guava. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: ripe to overripe tropical fruits, nice acidity, very juicy, like multi-vitamin tropical fruit juice, some lemon juice. Aftertaste: pretty acidic, little bitter, very fruity, some tannins, passion fruits, some bitter mango.
Tried from Draft at Bar Beenhouwer on 10 Sep 2020 at 18:40

7/10
Botella @El Cabanón, Avilés. 09/09/2020 Color amarillo corona de espuma blanca escasa, aromas cítricos limón, limón, sabor cítrico, limón, cuerpo ligero. Refresco.
Tried on 09 Sep 2020 at 17:52

8.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle at home. Pours deep ruby, nose is almond, vanilla, cherry, caramel, biscuit, taste is juicy cherry, sweet, tart, almond, biscuit, light funk.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Sep 2020 at 15:29