Gravedigger Billy
Revolution Brewing Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Rotating|
Score
7.93
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Scotch Ale Aged in Bourbon Barrels
Our bourbon barrel-aged Wee Heavy, decked out in a fine tartan kilt, delivers expressions of sweet malt and American oak like a furious claymore strike. Pour a wee dram and let the brogue fly. Don’t be daft, enjoy now or store cold.
Our bourbon barrel-aged Wee Heavy, decked out in a fine tartan kilt, delivers expressions of sweet malt and American oak like a furious claymore strike. Pour a wee dram and let the brogue fly. Don’t be daft, enjoy now or store cold.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 9
Overall 8
Can, 2025 vintage. Pours clear hazel, small beige head, good lacing. Aroma is bourbon, dark sugars, toffee, oak. Flavor is medium sweet, light plus bitter. Medium body. Quite solid.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Dec 2025
at 05:38
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can - clear dark amber - faint lace - nose is mostly bourbon, vanilla, dark fruit - creamy texture - quite sweet and sugary - plums, caramelized sugars, toffee, treacle - there is a slight earthy maltiness, but not getting the peaty, smoky notes of a scotch ale at all - finish is crazy hot and boozy - a blunt instrument that is not terribly complex.
Tried
from Can
from
Mr. B's Wine & Spirits at Stanley Marketplace
on 23 Dec 2025
at 01:17
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz can late night. brown pour dark hint of reddish hues. Nose is toffee and dried fruit and bourbon. Tatses of bourbony vanilla, date, red wine, figs, wood, soy sauce, cherry. Sweet finish. Boozy warmers.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2025
at 15:36
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz can from Tavour. Dark brown pour, muddy, small bubbly head . Boozy aroma, bourbon, chocolate. Not getting many scotch ale notes due to the bourbon. Thick, heavy
Tried
from Can
from Tavour
on 05 Dec 2025
at 06:13
9/10
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jun 2025
at 22:12
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Tap at Orange and Brew. Deep brown Scotch Ale color, thicker later of brown than on might find in a barrel beer. Sweet malt nose with bourbon and some cherry. Taste is quick thick, with malts best matched to a bourbon malt bill. Warm, sweet bourbon with no roast, of course. Can't quite pick up any claimed smoke, but that may just be a snap portion of prayed malt and however long this has say in a barrel. Simply delightful and intoxicating.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Dec 2024
at 18:59
8/10
FLN, boozy caramel raisin chocolate sweetness with a hint of tobacco, so dang good.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Nov 2022
at 10:15
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can. Pours hazy mahogany, medium beige head, good lacing. Aroma is rich woody bourbon, dark sugars, dates, vanilla, hint of cherry and almond. Flavor is medium plus sweet, quite bitter, rich integrated dark sugary bourbon. Full body, silky. Too many IBU for a scotch ale, but very good nontheless.
Tried
from Can
on 14 May 2022
at 03:32
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewery. Pours dark brown. Biscuit, toast, roast, red fruit, dried fruit, bourbon, hefty booze. Pretty good.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Mar 2022
at 02:38
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Burk från Revolution, 2018, 13.2%. Mörk mahogny/kastanj med tjusig beige krona. Massiv, maltig arom packad med tobak, läder, bränt socker, rostade mandlar och russin, lätt touch av choklad och lätt rökighet. Fantastisk fatkaraktär med löjliga mängder Bourbon. Stor kropp med bra mängd behaglig kolsyra. Fantastiskt gott.
Tried
on 25 Aug 2021
at 20:09