Month: July 2021

Get yer BBQ fired up and get pouring!

In my opinion the rich, sweet flavouring of this sauce makes it the perfect accompaniment to typical BBQ cuisine.

You can certainly taste the bourbon and this sticky sauce has quite a restrained heat payload. The smoke from the chipotle peppers fuses well and the habanero makes an appearance, rising out of the other flavours to deliver some subtle burn.

8/10 – It’s good, but in my mind it’s not an everyday sauce. Best reserved for complimentary food pairings.

I picked some of this up in Japan on the recommendation of a colleague.

This stuff’s just amazing. It’s an oil rather than a sauce, but it’s packed full of crunch garlic bits (that the garlic remains crunchy after being in the oil so long is truly a wonder).

Quite a few ingredients, including soy & sesame, which can certainly be tasted. It’s not particularly hot, but it’s a real flavour explosion. Awesome on a fried egg.

10/10 – At the moment, buying it imported means that it’s not particularly cheap, but it’s utterly worth it.

Undeniably, this is a smokey sauce. You can smell the smoke when you unscrew the lid. Your tongue is assaulted by smoke when you consume it.

Smoke smoke smoke smoke smoke.

I’m a bit torn by this one. On one hand, I do like strong smokey flavours, however I think that in this sauce it dominates anything that you might use the sauce on (unless you’re being very sparing.. And what’s all that about?).

It takes a while for the smoke flavour to give way to a very pleasant but not overwhelming heat with a bit of acidity in the tail.

7/10 – Good, but needs careful food pairing to avoid smothering other flavours.