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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6.5

Can shared at the Strait. Off black with a thin head. Very sweet, light chocolate and fairly thin.

Tried from Can on 13 Feb 2026 at 21:32


8

Lots of fruity sweet and mandarine, some carrot cake spice

Tried from Can on 13 Feb 2026 at 21:27


7.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can from Eltham Wines. Nose is strawberry cheesecake, raspberry jam, bananas, vanilla, white chocolate. Taste is a rich tasty mix of the above, some sweet spice coming through in the back end. Sweet banana & jammy red berry infusion. Dry & lightly tart. Nice.

Tried from Can from Eltham Wines on 13 Feb 2026 at 15:50


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Can from Eltham Wines. Pineapple, vanilla, mango & orange toffee nose. Taste is orange sherbet, mango, vanilla, pineapple. Juicy sweet with a sharp tart ending.

Tried from Can from Eltham Wines on 13 Feb 2026 at 15:47


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

On tap at The Taps in Beaconsfield, Bucks. An off white coloured pour with an interesting medium bubbly white head on top. Coconut, banana, lime, slightly sour. A fun sour smoothie.

Tried from Draft on 12 Feb 2026 at 22:07


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

440ml can. Pours very dark brown with a small head. Aroma is milk chocolate and vanilla, slightly cloying. Taste has milk chocolate throughout with a vanilla on the finish. Slightly artifical and cloying in places.

Tried from Can from Morrisons Supermarket (Various locations) on 12 Feb 2026 at 21:17


7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Dark amber with a medium tan head. Aroma of hazelnut malt. Flavour is chocolate, velvet texture, nutty, sweet, creamy chocolate base.

Tried from Can from McHughs OffLicence on 12 Feb 2026 at 00:00


8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 9

Can from Old Dairy Taproom Tenterden and drunk at home. Black beer lasting dark tan head. Cocoa powder chocolate aroma Some booze aroma. Thick in the mouth. Light booze. Good chocolate mocha coffee flavour. Light burn on the finish. I liked it. Good thick chocolate coffee flavour. Good.

Tried from Can on 10 Feb 2026 at 18:41


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Can as an Xmas present and drunk at home. Murky dark red colour lasting pink beige head. Spice on the aroma and some fruit. Decent enough. Some sweetness. Its somewhere between a sour and a sweet fruit beer. Spice throughout some bitterness on the finish. Fruit is lovely. Yes i can see this being the fruit filling in a fedtivf crumble. Pretty decent.

Tried from Can on 10 Feb 2026 at 18:17


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Can at home picked up from Tesco, Supermarche A jet black dark brown coloured pour with a loose dark tan head, Aroma is hazelnut cream, toasted, nutella, bark, Biscuit. Flavour is composed of semi sweetr, oily, creamy nutella, maple brown sugars, oily. Palate is medium sweert, oily, creamy, mellow carbonation. Nice. pastitsio. creamy dubai chocolate. nice.

Tried on 09 Feb 2026 at 00:35