More UK supermarkets have gone sweet on sour beer, with Waitrose and Sainsbury’s stocking up on Vault City’s Triple Fruited Mango.
The modern 6.2% ABV sour beer, which comes in a 440ml can, is now available at 100 Waitrose stores and 250 for Sainsbury’s outlets, and online via both supermarkets’ websites. Vault City is also one of the most popular craft beer prodcuers at 650 Tesco stores nationwide, and is in Morissons, too.
Co-founder Steven Smith-Hay said: “We’re really excited to see Triple Fruited Mango take to the shelves in Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. It gives us so much confidence to have four big supermarkets back our beers, and it vindicates all the hard work we do in trying to produce the UK’s best and tastiest sours.
“Our Triple Fruit Mango is just another example of our drinks pushing the boundaries in terms of people’s expectations in a beer. Sweet, sour, and packed full of real fruit, it’s incredibly refreshing and is on the shelves with summer just around the corner.
“It’s one of our signature sours, a firm favourite in our two Edinburgh bars — Porty Vault and The Wee Vault — and we believe it will be a very popular pick-up in supermarkets too.”
Steven, aged 32, started brewing beer from his home in Edinburgh before setting up Vault City in 2018. The business, which specialises in heavily fruited, modern sour beers — with flavours such as Mango Banana Coconut Crumble, Iron Brew and Raspberry Roulade — has since become one of the UK’s best-selling sour beer brands and the biggest in Scotland, with turnover exceeding £3.1 million this year.
