For this category, with this entry, I've now had the Louisiana style sauce with cayenne peppers, tabasco peppers, jalapeno peppers and scorpion peppers, with habanero on-deck and the jolokia coming at some point in the future.Cayenne is still far and away my favorite and most of that is due to my beloved Red Devil, also made by Trappey's.
Like the Louisiana Hot Sauce from Trappey's, Bull uses red jalapeno peppers. This alters the taste somewhat from the Red Devil and deviates it in a much milder and not quite as good flavor. It does ratchet the heat up slightly from the relative non-existence of Red Devil to something right around Texas Pete. Again, not very much, but slight as it is, it's enough to notice.
Like both of the other two Trappey Sauces mentioned, it costs around $1 for a 5 oz. bottle with a restrictor cap. It wouldn't be something I would have ordinarily gotten, but I just so happened to run out of what I had left of the Texas Pete in the last couple of nights and the sauce I had in line for the next Louisiana style -- Panola (review coming shortly) -- was not at all a Louisiana-style sauce. That kind of sauce, as far as I'm concerned, is something to always have on hand, for when you need it, you need it.
Bottom line: Once again, Red Devil fends off another challenger to the Louisiana-style throne. Bull, while acceptable in a pinch, isn't something I would ever buy again if there was something better. It is, however, very representative of that style and for $1, the unfamiliar could do much worse than to pick up a bottle.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 0
Flavor: 5
Flexibility: 6
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 4
Overall: 4
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