🥃 - McLaughlin Distillery Devil’s Juice #5 Proof - 120 / 60% Color - Dark Mahogany almost Crimson Nose - Cherry, smoke, bon fire, mesquite wood, Sweet BBQ Flavors - Heavy smoke, mesquite wood, cinders, slight cherry, bon fire Sweetness - 1 / 10 There is no real sweetness to this specialty whiskey spirit but it’s delicious in its own right. Dryness - 7.5 / 10 This is fairly dry, as you’d expect something with this much smoke to be. Burn - 5 / 10 There’s some heat up front, very little chest burn mostly in the mouth and palate. Bud’s rating - 6.5 / 10 This is just such an interesting sip and it’s definitely worth it. Yes this isn’t a bourbon, but this does have bourbon mixed in it. A mixture of the whiskey and bourbon aged in mesquite barrels it’s fantastic. Think of the day after a bonfire how your hoodie or shirt smells. That’s this drink in a nutshell. Something I’ll drink on a crisp night when I don’t have a fire to go to, and just something to add a Smokey flavor to my palate. It will pair well with BBQ or a steak!