Pex Peppers Lemon Yellow Jacket Lemon Fatalii Hot Sauce
Saw this one on sale and picked it up, as lemon is a pretty unusual ingredient to be prominent in flavor profile for a hot sauce. In fact, I can't think of too many others with this kind of focus. It also featured the Fatalii pepper, which is another that I need to spend a bit more time with. Fatalii reminds me somewhat of the Scorpion, only considerably less flowery and a bit more fruity, which nicely pairs with citrus in general, clearly what they were going for with the lemon.
The flavor is most reminiscent to me of the CaJohn's Dread sauce. It is not a 1:1 dead ringer or anything, but that is by far the closest comparison I can think of...Dread, only a lot less hot. This can get a nice build going, however, as the Fatalii is another of the superhots. Lemon struck me as a very curious choice, as lemon and food tend to go together in a fairly low amount of foods, largely the white meats, such as fish, shellfish, chicken, and pork. Lemon, lemon pepper, lemon and dill, all of those work exceedingly well in that environment, but lemon and red meat, for instance, or lemon and, say, Italian foods are not such a good combination.
Like Dread, this sauce is somewhat limited in where it finds best use. It took me a very long time to work through and finish out the Dread sauce, being one of those sauces, again something this shares, that is too good to toss, but opportunistically takes a while to find foods where it is a good match. I do find this sauce to be quite enjoyable, though, and I appreciate the degree of experimentalistic courage it takes to take a shot at bottling and putting this out as a product. Part of the problem with Dread, for me, as that although I enjoyed the sauce, there were a lot of other sauces I had open, perpetually, that I preferred. That is fully the case of what I expect here as well.
Consistency-wise, this reminds me more of a lemongrass-type sauce, rather than anything smooth and runny. I don't know what I was expecting, something syrupy or lemon droppy or along those lines, perhaps, but whatever vision it was, this is really its own thing. Another very, very solid entry from Pex Peppers, a company that continues to impress.
Bottom line: A very unique entry into the market, utilizing the seldom-used Fatalii pepper and lemon. This is an excellent sauce to introduce one to the Fataliis and if you're a heavy eater of any of the meats I mentioned, this is definitely worth a go.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 5
Flavor: 6
Flexibility: 5
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 6
Overall: 5
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