Bitter: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Salty: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Sour: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Sweet: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Umami: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Heat: ⭐✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Fresh tomato, grassy, fruity, vegetal, garlic Texture: Medium with some nice pepper and tomato bits Recommended: Yes Ingredients: Dog River Farm tomatoes, Full Moon Farm onion, Red Fire Farm Anaheim peppers, Dutchess Farm sweet peppers, Honey Field Farm red serrano,…
Bitter: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Salty: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Sour: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Sweet: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Umami: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Heat: ⭐⭐✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Maple, fruity ripe jalapeno, garlic, sweet Texture: Medium, smooth, sparkly Recommended: Yes Ingredients: Vermont red jalapenos, organic distilled white vinegar, Vermont garlic scapes, Choice Maple organic Vermont maple syrup, salt, edible glitter (mica-based pearlescent, dextrose). Since it’s pride month I…
Bitter: ✰✰✰✰✰ Salty: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Sour: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Sweet: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Umami: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Heat: ⭐✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Strawberry, sweet, tart, sour Texture: Medium-thin with some nice chunks Recommended: Yes Ingredients: 4 Corners Farm strawberries, organic white vinegar, Honey Field Farm red serrano, pure organic Vermont maple syrup, water, Vermont grown rhubarb, salt. Rhubarb is an underappreciated vegetable…
Bitter: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Salty: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Sour: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Sweet: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Umami: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Heat: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Fruity, Hoppy, Tangy Texture: Thin and smooth Recommended: Yes Ingredients: Familia Farms red habaneros, white vinegar, The Alchemist “Focal Banger” American IPA, salt How do you improve upon one of the best habanero hot sauces I’ve tried, Butterfly Bakery of…
Bitter: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Salty: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Sour: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Sweet: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Umami: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Heat: ⭐✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Earthy, vegetal, piney, bitter Texture: Medium-thin with some pepper and vegetable bits Recommended: Yes Ingredients: Organic white vinegar, Stillmeadow Gardens Hungarian wax peppers, Pete’s Greens garlic scapes, Honey Field Farm kale, salt, Dutchess Farm fresh rosemary One of the things…
Bitter: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Salty: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Sour: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Sweet: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Umami: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Heat: ⭐⭐✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Tangy, Fresh, Sour, Piquant Texture: Medium and semi-chunky Recommended: Yes Ingredients: Artesano organic undistilled white vinegar, Quill Hill Farm green jalapeños, Honey Field Farm cayennes, Honey Field Farm cucumbers, Pete’s Greens garlic scapes, Honey Field Farm cilantro, water, salt, lemon…
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…
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…
In addition to making some of my favorite hot sauces Butterfly Bakery of Vermont has a very tasty line of mustards. Chipotle is a pepper I usually avoid in sauces because many combine the pepper with tons of added sugar and/or artificial or overbearing amounts of smoke flavor leading to sauces that taste very imbalanced…
Perhaps owing to the popularity of Hot Ones, where this sauce appeared in the number nine position during the 20th “season” or the show, this is one of the sauces from Butterfly Bakery of Vermont that seems to have the most visibility amongst hot sauce enthusiasts. Interestingly, this wasn’t the first sauce Hot Ones reached…