To a 2-quart slow cooker, add the BBQ sauce, brown sugar, bourbon, hot sauce, paprika, and ground mustard. Stir until well combined.
Drain the little smokies links and add them to the crock pot. Stir everything together, making sure all the smokies links get coated.
Cover and cook on HIGH for 2 hours.
Reduce heat to WARM until ready to serve.
For serving:
Stir the smokies links in the sauce. If serving from the slow cooker, recover the smokies links and you're done! If using a serving bowl, spoon the smokies links into the bowl and then spoon some of the sauce that gets left in the slow cooker over the smokies. Serve immediately.
Notes
Use your favorite BBQ sauce for this recipe. I went with a spicy honey BBQ sauce to play off the other flavors.
You can substitute your preferred hot sauce in this recipe if you don't care for Frank's.