Pretty hot off the bat, burns like a silky whiskey going down, everyone around me, and myself started hiccuping as soon as we swallowed it, trying it on spoons straight from the bottle before putting it in food is the way to go in my opinion, passing gas soon after the hiccups ceased seemed pretty standard for everyone, all in all rather tasty for a reaper/ghost/scorpion pepper blend, definitely feeling the sweats and lip numbing which I feel is pretty standard when ghost is involved..