Micheladas, essentially a Bloody Mary that substitutes beer for the vodka at their most basic level, are one of my favorite drinks. They’re typically spicy, sour, salty, umami-rich, and low enough in alcohol that you can enjoy several with lunch or dinner and leave with only a light buzz. Of course their flavor profiles also…
It’s not uncommon for me to order a sauce because at the time it looks like it will satisfy a certain craving for me at the time of ordering, or because I need to get my order total just a bit higher to get free shipping. By the time that sauce arrives sometimes I’m just…
Originally created to find a way to deal with an overgrowth of peppers in the firehouse garden after a long vacation firefighter Lee Taylor created the recipe for his original pepper sauce in just an hour and received rave reviews from his fellows at the firehouse. The sauce evolved as Taylor replaced a charitable biking…
The third and final of the new Hot Ones heat pack sauces I’ve reviewed, this one took my the longest to write up and figure out my thoughts on. Microsaucerie Piko Peppers’ Volkano was a straightforward (though absolutely delicious) habanero sauce and Queen Majesty’s Sicilian Scorpion was just brutal heat with a scorpion flavor that…
Sicilian Scorpion is the first hot sauce I’ve tried from Queens, NY’s Queen Majesty, a brand I’ve heard a lot about. Looking them up they’ve been operating since 2013, quite a while for a craft hot sauce brand, and pride themselves on making all natural sauces with no added sugar, preservatives, or xanthan gum, something…
Microsaucerie Piko Peppers out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada is a company I’ve had my eyes on for a little while but haven’t had a chance to try any of their sauces until recently. Piko Peppers tries to use as many locally sourced ingredients as possible in their sauces and uses only all natural ingredients, both…
Hot Ones continues to go strong, now in their 26th “season” and celebrating their 10th anniversary. With that they’ve commissioned a bevy of new sauces which will eventually show up in the reviews here. This review is on a sauce they’ve had out for a while however, originally showing up in season 11 in the…
The Offspring’s brand of pop punk rock music was always fun when I was in high school and college, and I can recall many parties where some of their tunes were part of the soundtrack. The leader of the group, Dexter Holland, is also something of a renaissance man. He’d already earned bachelor’s and master’s…
My first trip to St. Augustine, FL was before I developed an avid interest in hot sauces, though I did still have an interest in spicy food. I was impressed that the entire town, or at least the areas I saw, had an avid interest in the local Datil Pepper. There seem to be a…
While Torchbearer’s Garlic Reaper is a perennial favorite amongst hot sauce aficionados they actually make two other Reaper sauces – Reaper Evil (which I’ll eventually get around to reviewing) and Plum Reaper, the subject of this review. I was interested to see if this one would stack up against its more famous brother. Like most…