“Queen Majesty Cocoa Ghost Hot Sauce is handmade in NYC using fresh and carefully selected ingredients. This original recipe was created in collaboration with our friends at Heatonist in Brooklyn, NY”
This sauce uses both ghost and habanero peppers, with plums, black cacao and chipotle making an appearance on the ingredients.
In terms of consistently, it’s relatively thick; for east of pouring, something slightly runnier would have made it easier, but it’s not too bad; just takes a bit of “persuasion” to get it out of the bottle sometimes!
It’s a reasonably hot sauce; the ghost pepper’s certainly making its presence felt. The initial flavour is quite rich & with strong chocolate notes then the heat kicks in, with a relatively long, slowly tapering burn. There’s a little sweetness there (presumably from the pineapple juice) which adds a nice complement to the rich cocoa and hint of smokiness from the chipotle.
I’d say that this is an accomplished sauce. With the flavour profile I don’t think it’d ever be my daily driver, but of the dark/smoky/chocolatey sauces, I think this one probably pulls off one of the best all-round performances that I can recall.
8/10 – Delicious and hot, but probably not good with everything!