A blueberry, honeyberry and limoncello sorbet sour.

Glasgow comedian Kim Blythe has teamed up with cult brewery Vault City to create a beer to tie in with her Edinburgh Fringe show.

The Canned Laugher beer is a blueberry, honeyberry and limoncello sorbet sour.

It ties in with her Gilded Balloon show – which explores anxiety, imposter syndrome and the leap from online fame to live performance – with some of the profit form the booze going to Save The Children and a mental health charity.

Blythe  said: ‘I tried a Vault City beer a while ago that had honeyberry in it. I was like, what even is that? It sounded made up. Turns out it’s a real Scottish berry, so I said, "Throw that in."

‘I also wanted to recreate a blueberry and lemon cocktail from a Glasgow bar that shut down. It’s a flavour that makes no sense but works, which felt fitting.

‘I thought maybe they’d send me a few tasters. I didn’t expect them to go, "Right, what do you want to make?" I felt like Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. I was just firing out flavour ideas and they actually went for it.’

Vault City Brewing, based in Portobello, Edinburgh, previously launched a vegan apple and guava session sour as a collaboration with Ed Gamble.

Blythe rose to prominence with her observational sketches on TikTok, but says the shift to stand-up hasn’t always been easy.

She said: ‘I still hate being called a TikToker. It feels so dismissive. You get introduced on stage that way and it’s like, "Right, cheers for that."

‘I never would have called myself a comedian when I was just posting videos, even though that’s what I was doing. But stand-up has given me this weird sense of legitimacy. Like, OK, I’m really doing this now.

‘People are horrendous on the internet, so when you get heckled on stage it’s like, 'Is that it?' I’ve been called way worse.

‘The biggest difference is pace. Online, you post something and move on. Stand-up forces you to slow down and know the theory behind it. Seeing someone laugh in person, that’s the most rewarding bit.’

The name Cowboy came from a phrase she found herself repeating last year.

She explained: ‘I kind of got into stand-up and everything was going amazing, but at the same time I had all this anxiety. People would ask how it was going and I’d just say, "I’m cowboying it. Not got a clue." From the outside it looked great, but I was just trying to figure it all out.

‘I must’ve said that phrase a hundred times, and eventually I thought, Cowboy. That’s the show.’

She added that she wanted to explore ‘that thing of thinking, "Why do I feel like a fraud when everyone else seems fine?" I’ve spoken to so many comedians who feel the same. It’s not just you.’

The Vault City x Kim Blythe beer is available at vaultcity.co.uk.

Published: 7 Aug 2025