UPDATE: Video support now available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhKhHhxX2w8Another grocery store find, as the various places in my general vicinity seem like they are in process of rotating out vendors. For this one, it is a sauce styled very reminiscent of Danny Cash's Garlic-Serrano Salvation Sauce or the Bottled-Up Anger sauce, which is a somewhat astringent green sauce vaguely approaching perhaps along the lines of a tomatillo sauce. This makes it best for lighter meats, chicken, pork or the best usage we've thus found, fish tacos.
Taste is not bad, but this is overpowering on the vinegar side (listed here as acetic acid), so much that it drives up the astringency to a quite pronounced effect and overruns whatever you put it on. For some great-tasting sauces this aspect, while not wholly desirable, is at least tolerable. Here it is not and comes across as obnoxious and jarring. It's unfortunate, as had they dialed that back, this would have been a pretty ok sauce.
There are very light notes of Jalapeno and some of the additional Habanero sneaking through here and there, but mostly the taste is heavily on the vinegar side, far more pungent than any Louisiana sauce I've yet had. I don't always necessarily even mind one note, as long as that note is good. Here, definitely not. If that's your jam, you may like this, but this is not something I'll ever be using again.
Bottom line: Very aggressively vinegared sauce, to the exclusion of nearly all else. Not in my stable.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 1
Flavor: 2
Flexibility: 2
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 0
Overall: 1
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