Porty Vault - Vault City's Taproom

By now some of you may have heard the sad news that Porty Vault, our seaside taproom in Portobello, will be closing in the near future.

Porty Vault is a venue our team invested a great deal of time, energy, and passion into but unfortunately, the upcoming move of our brewery to Midlothian alongside significant headwinds for the hospitality sector means we’ve made the very difficult decision to close the bar down. This also means that our brewery tour and sour school offering will be on hold for the time being.

Any tour bookings after December 1st will unfortunately be cancelled. We’ve contacted all affected tour bookings by email already. We’re really sorry for any inconvenience caused. Anyone who has a voucher for a tour experience at Porty Vault will automatically have the validity extended and can redeem this when our new brewery is up and running in Autumn 2025, you can also exchange tour vouchers into web shop vouchers or you can choose a full refund by emailing your voucher code or booking email address to [email protected].

The bar will remain open until December at the latest or such time we are no longer able to staff the venue, giving everyone the chance to enjoy it one last time, and giving our team time to find new opportunities. This may mean reduced opening hours in the coming weeks but these should be reflected on Google. The Wee Vault will remain open and some of our Porty Vault staff will be moving over to work at our Haymarket taproom going forward.

We will be very sad to close its doors, but we are incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported Porty Vault — from our loyal customers and the local community to our dedicated staff who worked tirelessly to make it a such a warm, welcoming place.

🖐️ NEW RELEASES this week and the launch of Vault City's new sour scale from 1 to 5!

1 being sweet /pastry sour
5 being really sour

1 - 🍊🍭Orange Creamsicle
2 - 🥕🍰Carrot Cake
3 - 🍍🎂Pineapple Upside Down Cake
4 - 🍋🟣Passion Fruit Lemon Sorbet
5 - 🍏💥Apple Soor

We're loving the new design on these cans too! But what'll be your favourite? Only one way to find out....

It's nearly stein time!! 🍻🍻🍻

Come see us this weekend as we bring Oktoberfest to Porty! 🇩🇪

From Friday we'll have 4 spectacular Oktoberfest biers pouring on draught and a dedicated shelf in our fridge full of special bottle releases!

Live DJs playing tunes Friday night & Saturday evening, plus some extra special Oktoberfest eats from our pop up kitchen available all weekend too.

PROST x 🍻🇩🇪

We are gearing up for our Oktoberfest celebrations & we can’t wait! 🍻

Say hello to our Oktoberfest draught line up - all available by the stein! 🍺

Swipe ➡️ for our Oktoberfest food menu served all weekend 🌭 🍗

Friday 20th Sep - Sunday 22nd Sep. Save the date(s).

NEW RELEASES (humans not beers...)

The Vault City bar team is growing! We've introduced two more absolute legends to our legendary front of house team who are just as mad about sour beer as you lot are! Meet Lynsey & Niamh ❤️ The gals are taking over.

Brrrrr! Well autumn's here....... couldn't have timed these new releases better!!

Stoopid v4 is Black Forest Gateau and compliments our tiles perfectly. It also tastes UNREAL. you keep outdoing yourselves 🫶

Autumn Berry Maple Swirl is loaded with strawberry, blackberry, sloe berries, pumpkin spice, vanilla & maple and is exactly what you need to embrace the change in the seasons!

Lastly, a hype hype collab with because ice cream is acceptable all year round... obviously.

🍺 🇩🇪 IT’S STEIN TIMMMMEEE 🇩🇪 🍺

We are dialling it up to 10 for Oktoberfest this year!!

🍺 The best Festbier - available by the stein 👀
🌭 Oktoberfest themed food! BRATwurst autumn? Ok that’s a WIP, ah well.
🎵 DJs across the weekend

We might even crack our the herbal liqueur 🌿

20th Sept - 22nd Sept. Save the date. Pröst!

*checkback next week for the tap & bottle list

HWCG🐔

Porty pop up is now live and we are open for business! For the next 2 months we'll be spoiling our guests with wings, tenders and juicy chicken burgers🤤

Kitchen opening hours:

Wed / Thur / Fri: 5-9pm
Sat / Sun 12-9pm

As our time draws to a close with our besties at Choola, we want to show Nicole and Ameer some love on their last weekend with us!🫶🏻🫶🏻

Here they are posing with their fave beers of ours…with our stock running mysteriously low of these cans🧐🧐


TODAY AND TOMORROW ARE THEIR LAST NIGHTS WITH US🥺😓

Come get ya some before they’re gone💔💔

Porty Vault 🤝

We are thrilled to announce our next pop-up kitchen with Chooks 🐓 . They will be serving up some cluckin’ (👀) good chicken from Wednesday 28th Aug - Sunday 27th Oct!

Expect the full shabang - tendies, wings, waffle fries & sandwiches!

Come get some tendie lovin’ 🍗❤️

🚨FINAL WEEK OF CHOOLA🚨
Final Tar Karis of the Week:

1. Pork Dal Bhat🍛
traditional nepalese pork tar kari with spiced black dal, rice and moola ko achaar.

2. Green Bean & Okra Dal Bhat🫑 (v, ve)
stir fried green beans & okra with spiced black dal, rice and moola ko achaar.

Do not miss your chance to try the excellent taste of Nepal. Book your table now or swing by and walk in!

FRESH CAN DROP 🙌🏻

latest Gold Top DIPA Glimmer - Citra T90, Citra Cryo, Galaxy, Motueka T90 & Motueka Cryo 8.4%

& - Legendary Lizard Man 7.2%

- Milkshake Milk Stout 5.6%

- Margot 3.4% & Petite Saison 3.5% two easy going summer smashers!

& - Development Hell 5 - Citra, Nelson, Motueka & Riwaka 8%

- NZ Super Pils 5% Perfect Summer Lager

& - Substitute 0.5%

Residing in the cooler. Start your weekend correct.

Available this week is 's award winning Buffalo Tar Kari 🤤🤤

This very dish helped crown them British Street Food Champions in 2023 👑

Tender slow cooked buffalo brisket in a rich sauce with traditional Nepalese spices.

Available this weekend and this weekend only!

New Releases this week 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

🟢P.O.G. Punch - a big smooth tropical juicy boy

🔴Cereal Spooner - a concoction of red berries & milk, wonderfully different!

🟠Blood Orange Raspberry - a no-nonsense crisp & juicy session sour!

+ loads of lovely guest beers for non-sour drinkers!
+ delicious Nepalese scran from (August only! Don't miss out)

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POV: you're thirsty, you're hungry, but you've made a great decision....

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We got you covered.

We have hop wizards in Porty next Thursday pouring up some beer-y magic!

Kick off is at 7pm , come down have a chinwag with Stu the Head Brewer, smash some glorious beers & eat your body weight in pork kothey momos from .

Thursday sorted. See you then.

🎈PORTY VAULT TURNS 2!!🎈

To mark the occasion we're giving out free birthday cake & birthday beer this Saturday the 27th July🍰🎂🍰

Also, as a good will gesture, if you'd like to stick "one fur yersel" behind the bar for us we will donate the money to the Portobello Heritage Trust!

Wild how quick a year goes eh!
Here's to us 🍻 And here's to YOU!
Thank you for your continued support ❤️

Porty Vault 🤝 Choola_uk

The legends at Choola are bringing their award-winning Nepalese street food to Porty Vault, and we could not be more excited about it!

Fresh from winning Scottish British Street Food Awards, our newest pop-up kitchen will be joining us from July 31st until August 25th, with an incredible menu full of authentic dishes inspired by recipes found in the street markets and homes of Nepal.

Book your visit now 🍽📲 https://bit.ly/ChoolaPortyVault