Beer-tasting at Edinburgh brewery Vault City's Tap Room at Haymarket

Edinburgh Evening News

Evening News reporter Kevin Quinn headed along to Edinburgh brewery Vault City's Tap Room at Haymarket to try out some of their most interesting and experimental craft beers. Watch to see how this craft beer novice got on.

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00:00I headed along to Vault City's tap room at Haymarket to try some of their more

00:05interesting craft beers.

00:07So we are all about flavour exploration at Vault City.

00:11We brew at least six new flavours every single month which gives us a chance to really experiment

00:16with small batch releases and work with different fruits and really try and push the boundaries

00:21of what people might typically expect from a beer.

00:23And what do customers make of the flavours?

00:26We've got a hardcore dedicated audience that really love the kind of exploration angle

00:32of what we do and we're always reaching out to people who typically might not have

00:36considered themselves a beer drinker before.

00:38We've got a sort of accessible angle to what we make which kind of flips beer a little

00:45bit on its head from people's usual perception.

00:48So I tried out some of Vault City's most interesting concoctions.

00:54First up was Cereal Spooner, a breakfast inspired cereal sour with strawberries, raspberries

01:00and vanilla.

01:01Cereal Spooner.

01:08You can smell that right away.

01:10It just makes me think of cornflakes.

01:13They're not cornflakes.

01:17It's quite tart, quite sweet.

01:19You get a mix of different red berries.

01:22Very, very interesting.

01:26Next up was Pog, passion fruit orange guava fruited sour beer inspired by a Hawaiian soft drink.

01:37Lots of fruits going on here.

01:40Definitely, definitely passion fruit.

01:45Nice and sweet.

01:47Next to try was Very Cheeky.

01:49A take on cheeky vinto cocktail with blackcurrant, raspberry, white grape juice and mixed spicy.

02:00Definitely the vinto vibes.

02:02Takes me back.

02:04Oh, it's very tasty though.

02:07It's quite...

02:10It's quite...

02:12fucking tasty really.

02:14This one's quite a nice juicy type of cocktail.

02:16So we've got blackcurrant and raspberry.

02:18That's the two fruits that we've conditioned the beer on.

02:21But we also have white wine grape juice which gives it a kind of vine-ness character.

02:25You wouldn't even think this is a beer.

02:27Yeah, not at all.

02:28It's just like drinking vinto basically.

02:31Nice.

02:32Next on the menu was Passion Fruit Mojito.

02:35A cocktail inspired sour beer with passion fruit, lime juice and mint.

02:43Oh, you can smell the mint.

02:50So you're definitely getting a vinto vibe.

02:52I'm going to come on holiday back to home with a cocktail.

02:54Let's...

02:56Let's play this one.

03:05That's the best.

03:06Sticking with fruity flavours, I tried Blood Orange Raspberry next.

03:10A zesty Session Sour with citrus notes and juicy raspberries.

03:17Oh, you're definitely getting the orange and raspberry.

03:22That's probably the zestiest shot.

03:24Yes, very zesty, very summery.

03:34Lastly I tried DDF Caterpillar Imperial Stout.

03:38A 14.5% proof chocolate cake inspired beer.

03:43Really strong smell.

03:45And taste, like you said.

03:47What's the percentage for this?

03:49It's 14.5%.

03:5114.5%?

03:52Yeah.

03:53Wow.

03:54I'll take the...

03:57Wow.

04:00You can get the chocolate aroma from all the way over here.

04:02It's really good.

04:04Very chocolatey.

04:06That was later.

04:08I didn't get that many of them.

04:11We've been at Burberry for six years now.

04:14And we've had this tap room in Haymarket since 2021.

04:19It's a lovely little haven for craft beer fans.

04:22But we also get a lot of passing traffic that are drawn in by the neon signs.

04:27We do a lot of beers on tap.

04:30But we also have a takeaway fridge which is usually stocked with some incredible guest beer.

04:34And of course, every Vault City release.

04:37I would definitely recommend Vault City's tap room for craft beer fans.

04:40And even those who have never tried craft beer and want to dive in.

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