Arthur Wayne Huckleberry Ghost Hot Sauce Review

Arthur Wayne Huckleberry Ghost Hot Sauce

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This little gem is an absolute beauty of a sauce. It strikes me as kind of odd, to call a sauce beautiful, and I don't mean visually, though it does have a very cool sort of purplish coloration, with little bits of pepper. It is more in just how incredibly successful this Arthur Wayne chap was in bringing off the huckleberry flavor which reads in just a stunning way. This is one of the better versions of any berry sauce I've ever had, hot sauce or otherwise. I've had a lot of blueberry hot sauces and this one just runs circles around all of them. Pairing this with the mighty Ghost was a stroke of brilliance, as the excellent flavor of the Ghost lends a touch of bitterness and rounds off the sweetness nicely, creating a wonderful marvel. 

I don't personally like the taste of berry on pizza nor on Mexican food or Asian food, but aside from those, this has worked quite well as a dipping sauce, to a lesser but still solid extent on burgers, but most especially, on sweeter breakfast foods, such as pancakes or waffles. It is not quite sweet enough entirely by itself for my suiting, but dropping in a small amount of pure maple syrup fixes things right up and just really takes the whole endeavor up several notches. It also looks amazing on those breakfast delectables, particularly on sweet crepes. 

Heat-wise, it is listed as 8/10, but I find it considerably tamer than that. Like most label ratings, I'd put the heat at half of what's listed, maybe a bit under that, even. This isn't a sauce to sandblast your mouth out in an unholy inferno of superhot pepper scorching. It is definitely far more flavor forward.

Bottom line: If you want a sweet-hot that features berries rather than a tropical fruit, this is the ticket. Probably the best berry sauce I've ever eaten. Unexpectedly, I now have another SOTY candidate in this.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 3
            Flavor: 10
            Flexibility: 8
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 10

Overall: 8