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Vault City Brewing

United Kingdom · Known for a full range of styles
Known for a full range of styles

Founded in 2018 by Steven Smith-Hay, a former IT consultant and passionate home brewer from Edinburgh. Vault City's name inspired by Edinburgh's underground vaults. The highest-rated brewery in Scotland on Untappd with nearly 1 million check-ins and a 3.97 overall rating. At least 6 new flavours each month. Tagline: Modern Sour Beer. Core range: Strawberry Sundae, Cloudy Lemonade, Triple Fruited Mango. Exports internationally.

34Beers
6Styles
6.5%Avg ABV
2018Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
0%
catalogue avg 15%

Beers by Vault City Brewing

34 beers
Dark & Stormy
Dark & Stormy
Cocktail Sour · 4.8%
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Dripping In Mango
Dripping In Mango
Milkshake Pale Ale · 5.5%
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Lil Tropic
Lil Tropic
Fruited Sour · 4.5%
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Winter Bramble
Winter Bramble
Fruited Sour · 7.8%
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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Vault City Brewing brew across 6 style families.

Signature · 34 beers
Sour 26Stout 4Strong 1Pale Ale 1IPA 1Lager 1

Across these 34 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

sour
27 of 34 beers
fruity
28 of 34 beers
sweet
24 of 34 beers
tart
26 of 34 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:

typical for similar stylesVault City Brewing
in no beersin every beer
sweet
in 24 of 34 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Far more sweet than typical.
juicy
in 16 of 34 · typical similar styles brewery: 1 in 5
Notably more juicy than typical.
How we measure this

Two thresholds are at work here:

  • The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
  • The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.

A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 60%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
0 / 34
beers above the median
#1765
best ranked beer
Twin Peaks

Their beers place in the Top 60% of the catalogue on average, across 34 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Vault City Brewing

Founded in 2018 by Steven Smith-Hay, a former IT consultant and passionate home brewer from Edinburgh. Vault City's name inspired by Edinburgh's underground vaults. The highest-rated brewery in Scotland on Untappd with nearly 1 million check-ins and a 3.97 overall rating. At least 6 new flavours each month. Tagline: Modern Sour Beer. Core range: Strawberry Sundae, Cloudy Lemonade, Triple Fruited Mango. Exports internationally.

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Location
Edinburgh · Scotland · United Kingdom
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