Crazy Jerry's Brain Damage Hot Sauce Review

Crazy Jerry's Mind-Blowin' Brain Damage Hot Sauce

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This is another that's been around for a while, but I haven't been particularly interested in it, given the extract component. I believe I needed another sauce or two for free shipping and threw this one in during a buy of some novelty sauces of around a year ago (my backlog can be...intense) and then promptly forgot about it for a while. I've lately been trying to make a more pointed effort to get caught up again and ran across it while looking for a fruit-based sweet-hot, of which I can never seem to have enough of. When I saw mandarin oranges as the first ingredient, I thought it was probably worth a shot and cracked it open.

The flavor was interesting, reminding me a bit of something smoky, with a bit of depth to the flavor..before the extract kicked in. For all that, I was initially going to note that I had mentioned in my recent review of the Blair's Mega Death (elsewhere in this blog) that using an extract automatically meant the sauce was ruined (by the extract) and the very next extract sauce (this one) that I had proved me wrong, but my initial impressions proved to be short-lived, once I was able to make enough room in the bottle to better agitate the sauce.

 The flavor is quite unique, sort of if you liquified say a holiday fruitcake that had cloves as one of its ingredients, then added an element of Chipotle. It's original to itself, for sure, but I'm not entirely certain it's something I'd constantly want to have, largely because I'm not really a big fan of cloves, either. Once the extract flavor comes screaming in, though, I'm definitely sure I don't. Flavor-wise, it does mesh with the neutral chicken strips, but I didn't find a lot of other applications where I was happy with it. At times, it was ok, but I usually would rather have had something else. Heat-wise, this is one of the tamer extract sauces, though you can get a fairly solid build (and lengthy tail), if you eat enough of it.

Bottom line: If you're after a sauce quite unlike anything else AND like cloves (a lot) AND don't mind extract, this is probably a good pick-up, but I ultimately found it more novelty (it usually comes with a pink plastic brain-shaped cover for the cap, though my bottle didn't have one) than anything else.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 4
            Flavor: 4
            Flexibility: 2
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 2

Overall: 3