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Southern Comfort Fiery Pepper, 35%

Price: 17.00 Issue: Spring 2012 Reviewer: Lew Bryson Category: Flavored Whisky & Liqueurs

Does a nose of bright bubble gum and fresh-cut peppers touched by the fermented heat of Tabasco sound good? It comes bursting out of the glass with this one, busy and hot. The taste hits first with the bubble gum blast, sweet and light, even quickly pleasant until the pepper breaks in, twisting and warping this liqueur with a whirl of sweet, hot, bitter, vegetal flavors that turns to a sticky-sweet heat in the finish. A regrettably bad idea.