Torchbearer has an extensive sauce lineup with a ton of variety. If I were trying to break it down however I’d go with a set of ‘core’ sauces and then some variations on those themes. Their core line of Everyday Sauce, Tingly Sauce, Sultry Sauce, Tarnation Sauce, and Slaughter Sauce are all variations on a…
I usually tend to avoid overtly smoky sauces as I find so many of them go very overboard on the smoke content. When I saw Joe’s Dos Veces Ahumado hot sauce though, and read about how the owner and sauce maker felt similarly about how so many smoked sauces taste overbearing and artificial and wanted…
This is another unique single-varietal limited release sauce from Butterfly Bakery of Vermont. This features the Trinidad Perfume pepper, a variant of the Trinidad Scorpion pepper that has virtually no heat, but still retains the floral and fruity flavor associated with the Trinidad Scorpion. According to BBoVT these peppers naturally start to become spicier through…
Having previously tried the Primo Garlic Crunch and Ghost Aleppo Garlic Crunch from Heat Hot Sauce, I decided I had to try their other flavors as well. Billed as their medium-heat option this garlic crunch leverages the nutty robust taste of fried garlic with the neutral to slightly fruity heat of Thai chiles. As far…
Zesti started out as a brand because of the founder’s boredom with the commercially available hot sauces and condiments available locally. Desiring to make new flavor combinations he worked with chefs to develop recipes and launched his own line. I purchased a box of their various sauces months ago and due to my backlog and…
I first heard of this sauce, like nearly everyone else I’m sure, through the recent Taco Bell collaboration which included a boxed meal with several packets of this sauce. I enjoyed the Taco Bell sauce packets, so decided to order a few bottles of the sauce for myself. Omar Apollo is a Mexican-American musician. His…
Having been very impressed with the previous Butterfly Bakery of Vermont beer collaboration sauces that I’ve tried I ordered this sauce which they create for and which is sold exclusively by the Alchemist Brewery, one of their major beer sauce partners. With a history dating back over 20 years as a brewpub and over 13…
When it comes to craft hot sauces the market has exploded in the past 5-10 years. We’ve seen dozens if not hundreds of new companies pop up with the goal of producing tasty artisan sauces with innovative flavor combinations, most selling direct through their websites and perhaps local farmer’s markets and some local grocery store…
The name on this sauce is a mouthfull, though colloquially it’s usually referred to as XXX Hot, Mayan Style, or XXX Mayan (which sounds like something that could possibly be the title of an adult movie). Regardless of the nomenclature, this has long been the standout of the El Yucateco line for me, and one…
After enjoying my first bottle of Gindo’s sauce so much I was eager to try another. This is another one of their collaboration sauces with a local business – in this case Frankie’s Deli and Italian Meat Market. Having grown up in the cultural orbit of Philadelphia I love a good Italian deli. The Chicagoland…