Angry Goat Hot Cock Hot Sauce Review

Angry Goat Pepper Co. Hot Cock

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Well, can't get too far into this without mentioning the fun name..."cock sauce" is, of course, how sriracha was referred to colloquially for quite some time, referring to the rooster adorning the various bottles and this one indeed does have a rooster on the label as well. We shall take their meaning to be that and only that. Ahem. *cough*

Anyway, that aside, we continue to see the usage of animals on the labels and perhaps as inspiration, to a degree, for the various sauces, for the most part. Not all of their sauces do that, of course, but quite a few follow that motif. This is part of their "Forbidden Series," which I've been able to find little to no other information on, other than that another sauce called "Sweaty Beaver" is also a part of it. Perhaps this is meant to reference their more risque-named offerings.

In any case, what we have here seems a fascinating idea, namely, to take every single superhot variation you can find, in the color yellow, add in some yellow bells also, and run with it. This works wildly well, to be frank, on a number of levels. There are also peaches and some agave, to sweeten the deal a (very slight) bit, but generally, the flavor here is superhot, with the trademark bitterness along with the greater complexities of the Scotch Bonnet and Habanero. There are 7-Pots first, followed by the other two, then the Lemon Drop peppers as well as yellow Ghosties. The flavor of yellow bells is nice to really round things out and it gives it a somewhat nondescript general "chile pepper" flavor, though leaning more so towards the superhots.None of the peppers really asserts itself over another in terms of flavor. It is, in a lot of ways, a sauce without a distinctive flavor identity. 

This gives it a large degree of flexibility, though I frequently found myself wishing it was sweeter. Because there are no emulsifiers, this is another one that needs fairly regular and vigorous agitation or you can get radically different heat and flavor profiles with various usages. It's nice to be able to pick out peaches here and there, but it winds up being somewhat hit or miss. It's a medium thick sauce, with a lot of chunks, most of which wind up being grit from either the skin or the seeds, which I frankly would have preferred to be without. 

Like most of the rest of the Angry Goat sauces, I also find this one to be rather inventive, which is something I'm always happy to see. The label, as with many of their other ones, is also kind of bad. One part of note is that it rates heat here as 11/10, which is definitely not where I would put it. Initially, there is a lot of the flavor notes of superhots, but as with most 7-Pot Primo sauces, this one starts low and builds. Again, like some of those other 7-Pot sauces, this can get a lot of superhot intensity going, but even at its peak, it won't challenge too many chileheads. That intensity, though, and the levels with continued usage makes this one better reserved strictly for chileheads. I can't imagine too many normies digging this one.

Bottom line: Another excellent entry from one of my favorite sauce companies, with another unique and novel approach to an end product. If you're looking for a far more pepper forward superhot sauce, this is well worth a go.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 4
            Flavor: 8
            Flexibility: 7
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 7

Overall: 7