I once asked for a very smoky whisky and was bought out something completely clear.

There's a bunch of pale straw colored Islays (Ardbeg comes to mind). "Completely clear" would throw me off a bit, but very light? Sure.

It was very smoky and tasted like whiskey. It was probably straw colored, it was dim yellow lighting in there.

You can get white dog to be very Smokey by actually smoking it. If it was low enough proof the lack of age wouldn’t be super obvious.