Dat’l Do It Brewer’s 6 Pack Limited Edition Hot Sauce(s) Mini-Review

Dat’l Do It Brewer’s 6 Pack Limited Edition Hot Sauce(s)

As mentioned in the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV7NNvkc12s), this blog post is being posted concurrent with the video (as in on the same day, not necessarily to the minute, unless I can time it well enough) support for it. I think in concept this six pack of sauces thing is not a bad idea, but like a lot of concepts, execution does not meet the ideal. This a good case in point. Three of the six sauces I tossed after filming, as they were both bad sauces and not something I was about to eat just for the sake of eating. All of them detracted from the chicken chunk I put them on and were far from great shakes solo. Specifically, those were the “Asian Teriyaki,” the Cayenne, and the Garlic.

The other three were marginally better, but managed to make it into the fridge for potential usage. Those were the Chipotle, Jalapeno and Habanero. Of those, only the Habanero had any heat and it was relatively minuscule, basically a 1 on the scale. The labels are meant to mimic various beers and the sauces themselves are an approximation of various other sauces, which I will get into more soon. They were all very vinegar-forward sauces, very astringent and very watery. None of them had a restrictor cap, but all of them needed one.

In addition to the attempts with chicken strips in the video, I also tested the three remaining on some tacos. Of those, the Jalapeno was ok, but the other two read as far too vinegary to be very enjoyable, particularly the Chipotle. I also used them in a bbq sauce base I was making for bbq pork, which transported a ton of vinegar, but not anywhere near the flavor I was also wanting. I think my best bet is to treat them all like vaguely pepper-flavored vinegar and use accordingly.

Sauce by sauce breakdown looks like this:

Cayenne - this was your basic stab at a Louisiana style sauce, but it was cheap-tasting on a level that makes Crystal look high end. This was one of the poorest overall in terms of flavor.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 0
            Flavor: 0
            Flexibility: 0
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 0

Overall: 0

Garlic - this was the previous sauce, with some sort of garlic concentrate added. Adding a fake garlic taste profile to an already bad-tasting sauce worked about as well as expected.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 0
            Flavor: 0
            Flexibility: 0
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 0

Overall: 0

Asian Teriyaki - the first that I tried and easily one of the most clumsily and ineptly named, with the superfluous and meaningless “Asian” descriptor added to it. Can’t imagine any actual Asian sauce tasting anywhere like this, which is a much more pungent version of the first sauce, with a very slightly stab at teriyaki on the back end. Definitely never had anything remotely like this in any Asian dish or sauce and particularly not in a teriyaki sauce. Borderline offensive and not only to the palate.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 0
            Flavor: 0
            Flexibility: 0
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 0

Overall: 0

Jalapeno - this was one was kind of interesting. Lots of astringency to it, lots of pungency, but also a brightness to it that was somewhat interesting. This is one that is on the knife edge and I believe it is taking a shot towards the Tabasco Jalapeno, but also might along the lines of the Culinary Tours Jalapeno as a green hot sauce. This one might be ultimately also hitting the trash, but I’m intrigued enough to keep it around for now.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 0
            Flavor: 2
            Flexibility: 2
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 2

Overall: 1

Chipotle - rather than being twice as hot as Jalapeno, this one was mostly a flavoring system. Very nice sauce and by far the best tasting of the six, this one tastes like a lower grade version of the Tabasco Chipotle.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 0
            Flavor: 4
            Flexibility: 4
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 4

Overall: 3

Habanero - easily the hottest of them all (though that is not saying much), this one is more like a Louisiana style sauce, just using a different pepper rather than the Tabasco Habanero. I don’t personally care for the flavor of Habanero a great deal, so the flavor was not so great to me, but was probably the second best tasting sauce, which speaks to how bad some of the others were.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 1
            Flavor: 2
            Flexibility: 4
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 2

Overall: 2

Bottom line: This is a gift set that it is difficult to see where the appeal might lie. It will not please chileheads or fans of flavor. It is more novelty than anything and does not even remotely live up to the promise of the manufacturer or the idea nor does it represent those styles of sauces or, in a couple cases, even the flavor of the peppers themselves, particularly well. Even for $10, this is ultimately not worth getting.

Cumulative Breakdown (Entire Set):

            Heat level: 0
            Flavor: 1
            Flexibility: 2
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 1

Overall: 1