V.S.O. Gravedigger

Name: V.S.O. Gravedigger
Brand: Revolution Brewing Company
Rating: 4.39 (111 reviews)

Revolution Brewing Company

Chicago, IL

Tavour Rating

4.39

Style

Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy

ABV

14.9%

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About This Beer

The brewers took at Revolution took a batch of their OG Gravedigger Billy (rated a sky-high 4.31 on the app!) and tucked it away in some very special barrels. We’re talking Eagle Rare, Elijah Craig, and Whistlepig!

Tasting Notes

Look for the original’s flavors of toffee, pipe tobacco, dried figs, and leather, now made even more delicious by accents of top shelf booze! Notes of caramel, date, and charred oak should all be present, and we’ll definitely be looking for a ribbon of oaky vanilla to wrap up the finish.

Thick Rich Boozy

Noteworthy Ingredients

Bourbon Barrels

Reviews

4.39

111 Ratings

kenneth645

4.75

Outstanding barleywine-adjacent bevvie

nathan3431

5.0

I'm going to go put on a kilt and send my foes to The Otherworld. Fierce, boozy deliciousness with toffee and malts with notes of syrupy bourbon.

Rustgood

5.0

Wow!! Smooth and thick! A strong and delicious bourbon flavor

LoveOfRose

5.0

Most breweries emphasize “barrel aged” by completely over oaking their beer. Not true here. The Scotch ale and barrel aging are perfectly balanced. A rare find indeed!

MattBarleyWiner

4.5

very very great

jesse2607

3.5

barrel foward, harsh , coarse...not a fan

corby1967

4.75

So good. Revolution doesn’t miss.

matt8235

4.75

best scotch ale I have ever had

Ugh.why

4.25

simple anything from revolution will be bought

wjgeese1972

4.5

solid scotch ale. amazing barrel. Revolution does it again.

aaron4560

4.25

basically a BA Barleywine. thin body, as it typical with Rev beers. def not thin on flavor though

kyle3905

4.5

4.4

josh5623

5.0

Notes of rich toffee, raisins, and slight smokiness

christopher3798

5.0

Damn Tasty!!

jesse2828

4.0

smooth. this is a beer that I wouldn’t drink anything else with (it didn’t go good with 2 other drinks last night :)

tristan271

4.5

Caramelized bourbon. Everything Revolution pulls out of a barrel is magnificent.

dru12

5.0

great

marc1161

4.5

solid

will1653

3.0

I like beer. I love Scotch. I have learned I don’t really prefer them together.

will1653

3.0

I like beer. I love whisky. I have learned I don’t really prefer them together.

thomas1018

4.25

Lordy. This is beautiful stuff. Dark and musty and chocolate and heavy oak and vanilla

george1828

5.0

Amazing!

darundgren

4.5

Revolution’s barrel aging is just so consistently stellar. Rich, deep and full bodied barrel flavors just pull all the best qualities of a scotch ale forward. Loved this one.

jose3647

5.0

Magnificent. Exactly as described.

blake949

4.25

very good. a little thin but still very good

ryan12813

4.5

great barrel taste and easy to drink for the ABV

chris12063

4.25

Toffee, maple, dried fruit, smokey oak

Jmar

4.25

this was a lot better then I expected and I wish I grabbed more

yaroslav_tx

4.5

4.30 Nose - a bit overoaked with touch of vanilla and spices. Taste - dried raisins covered in semi sweet chocolate, hint of molasses and Ukrainian uzvar. Long lasting unsweetened cocoa finish complemented by all the notes you can get from a Scottish ale. The finest BA Scottish ale I've had so far, great complexity for the style.

brandon1179

4.75

miguel932

4.25

Mmmm…

andrew5244

4.25

I actually liked this one and I'm not usually one for barrel aged, especially not bourbon barrel. very roasty and malty but with that boozy/syrupy finish. I only had a taste so it might have been hard for me to finish if I drank the whole thing. just personal preference.

jeanne41

4.25

Dark, roasty, sweet, toffee, barrel-aged, rich.