Note: Support video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-CBr5zL8Ys Red Rooster makes no attempt at diffusion at all; this is - and is clearly meant to be - a Louisiana-style sauce, including being bottled, as I recall, and possibly produced, in Louisiana. This naturally meant I had high hopes for it, as I was mining one of the last brick-and-mortars I have left, as I've struggled as of late to find the Irazu, which means testing some new sauces to find, if not a replacement, then at least a backup to the mighty Irazu.
This one was slightly more expensive than I was expecting, but I don't mind paying for quality...to a point. Louisiana-style is a fairly uncomplicated sauce and someone wanting over say $3 for a bottle of it had better plan on making a fairly strong case for why it's more. In fact, Irazu is the only one I can think of that has done that well, though I seem to recall something from CAJohn's also being in that area as well.
As to this, very nice bright red color, sauce is very slightly thicker than most of the other sauces of type, but it oddly also tends to separate, even after being shaken and added to food. I find this more confusing than anything else, as it does not ever appear to be separated in the actual bottle. Taste is right along the lines of where it should be, and if someone were to ask me about what a Louisiana-style sauce should look and taste like, I'd point to this for example. It has very little heat, which is also usual for that style, though it does perhaps have more than some of the other entries out there.
Bottom line: Very solid entry and one of the better epitomes of what a Louisiana-style sauce should be.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 1
Flavor: 10
Flexibility: 7
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 10
Overall: 7
