Ingredients: Habaneros, garlic, onions, carrots, lime juice, ginger, whiskey, honey, apple cider vinegar, salt, black pepper.

A few weeks ago I traded our own Chuck Hell some of my Zesty Blend for his hot sauce. I was shocked when I received, not one, but two of his hot sauces. Today I’ll be reviewing one of them, Chuk Hell’s Magic Blend #2.

This is a chili-heads dream sauce. It has a nice sweet taste, great heat, and blends perfectly with almost every thing you put it on. The taste that first jumps out at you is the all-too-familiar fruity habanero (along with their heat) along with the apple cider vinegar and honey. At first I thought this was a bit too sweet until I tried it on an Ostrich taco at El Coyote. Much to my surprise, the sweet taste evens out when mixed with various foods and that’s when you really start to appreciate the quality mixture of flavors. The lime juice, carrots, and whiskey round off this sauce very nicely.

Chuk makes a mean sauce, I must say. The heat caught me off guard, hitting me right in the front of my tongue. It left me with the “habanero sniffles” and a small endorphin rush. Not too many sauces have that distinction now a days, so cheers to you Chuk.

Since I was trying this at a Mexican restaurant, all the help ended up sampling it. Boy did their eyes light up. Most of them wanted to order it right then and there, so Chuk, if you are reading this (and I know you are) you better start production of this sauce soon or else you might have a horde of heat deprived Mexicans banging on your door. You know you have an exceptional sauce on your hands when you have the approval of the Mexican nation.

So, in closing, everyone needs to start bugging Chuk to go main stream with this sauce because a sauce like this deserves to be readily available for me…er…the world to buy. Thanks for the sample Chuk!

Taste: 10, Heat: 7.67