Pex Peppers Cosmic Peach Chilehead Reserve Hot Sauce Review

Pex Peppers Cosmic Peach Chilehead Reserve

I think of this sauce as more of an adventure, a path into unknown peppers. I had a sauce, also from Pex, with the CGN21500. That sauce was called Bangin’ Mango and is reviewed elsewhere here, but this, this sauce right here is a hybrid of that pepper along with SB7J, itself a hybrid of Scotch Bonnet and 7-Pot Jonah. I’ve not ever had 7-Pot Jonah before, but I presume it’s a superhot, which could and probably does contribute nicely to an increase in heat. This is sort of a one-off and is inherently Limited Edition, as once the batch made with this specific crop of peppers is gone, it will never be seen again. So, it is, in many ways, a journey of sorts, and also lends more to the archival/historical nature of this blog as keeping a record of sauces, including the unique ones, and one would be hard pressed to find one more unique.

The aforementioned pepper is the first ingredient in the list and this is indeed a very pepper forward sauce. Like the regular Cosmic Peach sauce, reviewed elsewhere here, this sauce is kind of all over the place in terms of flavor, depending on where you are in the bottle, something which no amount of agitation ever seemed to fix for either. The peppers here are a bit softer and rounder a times, lending a very nice tropical pepper vibe to things, as you would expect with Scotch Bonnets, but there is also a ramp up to heat. Other times, there will be a tinge of superhot bitter to things and the heat will be right up front, immediately. Peach flavor comes and goes as an accent, more than anything, and, like the regular version, I wish this was a lot more peach and honey forward. This one is probably overall somewhat hotter than the regular version, but not by any great amount. The flavor is similar enough to that regular sauce that the applications are mostly the same and I will direct you to that review (TOC at right) for further commentary there. 

The ride is still not quite over. Back a long time ago, some time before I started this blog, I started consuming a lot more Habaneros than prior, to work my way up to superhots. This was fine for my stomach and mouth, but my lower intestines reacted a bit oddly for a while and even if I forgot I’d eaten some the prior day, in the morning of the next day, I was sure to be reminded. This hybrid is throwing me right back to those days. It’s kind of uncanny how similar this one reacts to my body chemistry as those early, and now long past days, of Habaneros. It’s happily not anything like the Reapers, but it’s kind of weird to be taken back to that time, after as many sauces, and hotter items, if you follow the FOH YT video series, as I’ve had.

Bottom line: This is a sauce that I find intriguing more for its uniqueness, but the taste of the peppers is quite interesting and I do wish there were more of them, as I think there are a lot of potentially wonderful flavor combinations to be had. 

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 2
            Flavor: 7
            Flexibility: 5
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 7

Overall: 5