Bohica Ghost Juice Hot Sauce Review Addendum

Bohica Ghost Juice

I can’t say I was especially blown away by the previous entry into these annals from Bohica, that being the Hawaiian Lava (check TOC, if interested), but when I looked at this and saw both Ghosties and cantaloupe, my imagination was immediately engaged. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, given that strawberries, citrus juices, and pineapple were also in the mix, but I was unquestionably intrigued and...sometimes you just know. Like, you crack a bottle and as soon as you open the cap and catch a whiff, you immediately know, either for good or ill, how you will react with the sauce. In this case, it was good, most definitely good.

What we have here is a very nicely balance fruit-based sweet hot, though it is perhaps on the lighter side of sweetness as far as sweet hots go. There is a good mix of the pineapple, citrus, and strawberries, with the cantaloupe providing a nice round foundation. Ghosties are towards the back here, so while there is heat, it is very much to the back. This is unquestionably a quite approachable sauce and I imagine that was what they were going for. For my part, I would have liked heat to be a lot more to the fore, particularly given how much I like Ghosties, but perhaps they can have an alternate version some day.

I like to have, at my disposal, a sort of internal list, where I can point people if they want to try a given style, as both an excellent example of that style, as well as a wonderfully tasting sauce. Given that condiments are food, I find there is nothing so fast as to lead people to the chilehead gateway, as a sauce that provides a sort of smooth and low smolder, combined with a phenomenal flavor, which is perhaps the most apt description of this sauce I can come up with. 

Given the variety of fruits and that it is a tad low on the sweetness scale, this doesn’t work super well on pizza, which I had hopes for, but it does retain a good flexibility for fried foods generally, and lighter meats in particular, though I wouldn’t be afraid to cast it out towards stuff like burgers or other foods. I think it could be particularly wonderful on a salad or perhaps the right kind of sub sandwich. One of the aspects about a great-tasting sauce is that even if it isn’t magnificent in that application, it will generally never be outright bad. 

Bottom line: Hugely impressive flavor profile with this not hugely sweet hot sauce, though a touch light on heat.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 1
            Flavor: 10
            Flexibility: 4
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 10

Overall: 6