It's fine but a little underwhelming and disappointing after reading so many rave reviews. Maybe too hot for me to taste. On a later revisit, this makes a bomb old fashioned. 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp water, 2 dashes black walnut bitter, 2 dashes angostura bitters, 1.5 oz of this, and another .5 oz of water. Because of this, im upling it from a 3.25 to a 3.75.