Jersey Barnfire Apples & Spice
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I don't love the name of this sauce...in fact, despite it having one of my favorite superhots, the vaunted 7-Pot Primo, I consistently passed it over in favor of other sauces because it just didn't strike me. The phrase "apples & spice" reminds me of an air freshener. Or a candle. Maybe a coffee drink of some kind. But not really a hot sauce, per se, dessert sauce, sure, but those are honestly, despite me loving sweet-hot sauces generally, of relatively little interest to me when I'm perusing shelves of sauces.
After finally rolling around to this sauce, I was pleasantly surprised to see those Primos, as I hadn't noted it before when I was looking at the various sauces. Indeed, when I added this one to the list, it was largely because of an ingredient it didn't have, namely onions. I really like a number of the Jersey Barnfire sauces and when I find a company who makes products that resonate with me, I like to go through their entire catalog. This is, I believe, one of the few I had left from Jersey Barnfire to discover and enjoy (check the TOC for the rest of them, if interested).
Right, with that out of the way not, let's get into this. The very first flavor note I got from this was a sort of toffee/dutch apple pie crumble vibe and this because the brown sugar and apples are very prominent in the flavoring, and in that order. There are quite a few bits and pieces of pepper in here, but the heat is very low. This is quite a tame sauce. It is also slightly runnier than I expected, yet is a very nice medium consistency, which makes it flow smoothly and be distributed evenly. It also sticks extremely well to food.
It is unquestionably a sweet sauce and a highly enjoyable one. It's yet another in the Jersey Barnfire line that I have to keep trying to throttle myself back, as there are a lot of foods I want to try this on (such as on the grill). I don't find apples and pizza a good mix and this is far too sweet to be of use in cream-sauce dishes, but it is fantastic on the lighter colored meats, easily one of the best sauces I've had ever. I suspect it will make an excellent grill sauce and it is superb as a dessert sauce, which I would say this is more than anything else.
Bottom line: Yet another outstanding offering from Jersey Barnfire, one of the more exciting companies out there. It is definitely very sweet and clearly a dessert sauce, but never to an overbearing or cloying effect. If you like apples and/or brown sugar at all, you will undoubtedly find this delicious and quite accessible.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 1
Flavor: 10
Flexibility: 6
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 10
Overall: 7
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