Yep, you read that right folks, after sampling 2,000 plus hot sauces in my career, I have now found one that tops the charts for me. “What can this magical sauce be and why are you wearing duct tape on your forehead” you might ask. Well, I’m hoping the duct tape on the forehead craze catches on and the sauce I’m referring to is Ghost Pepper Sauce. I received a preview sauce in for review (along with some rare seeds which sprouted with wonderful germination rates, so be sure to check that aspect of the business out) hence the unfinished label and here are my thoughts.

Ghost Pepper Sauce Ingredients: Bhut Jolokia, Bush spices, other chilli.

This pours out to a medium consistency and slightly dark orange color with splashes of spices and seeds intermixed. The taste is of instant sweetness from the Australian Bush spices and fruit. This sweetness lingers for a good three or five seconds then gives way to the Jolokia and what I’m pretty sure is Asian Birdseyes (those Aussies sure love their Birdseyes). I’m really loving the sweetness here, it’s unlike anything I’ve ever had before and is hard to describe. Whatever it is, I want to know what it is so I can grow it!

This really isn’t a complex sauce, sweet, fruity, and HOT! Not to say that’s bad, it just isn’t trying to be a multi-leveled fancy sauce and I like that. Now, we move into the heat aspect and this thing has it in spades (the card, not the shovel…that would just be awkward). The heat starts to hit you a second or two after consumption then instantly smacks your in the mouth like a shovel (hey, maybe it did have one after all) and keeps ramping up.

This is the first sauce that actually burned the top of my mouth. I’ve had back of the throat burns, middle of the tongue burns, gum burns, and many more, but this gave me the famous hot pizza burn on the roof of my mouth in addition to the back of the throat and all around tongue burn. This thing is mean, like, I’m going to insult your mother and kick a puppy while I’m at it mean. The burn from one full spoonful lasted me a good 8 minutes and gave me a buzzing endorphin rush (something that’s hard to accomplish these days)!

So there you have it, yet another fantastic product from the Land Down Under. I have yet to be disappointed by the Aussie crowd and am starting to think that day will never come. Let’s hope it doesn’t, I’m going back for another spoonful.

Taste: 9, Heat: 10

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