Mythos Thor Hot Sauce Review

Mythos Thor

Note: This sauce was provided for purposes of review by Roger Damptz of Burn Your Tongue. Check him out on Facebook or, better yet, head on over to his new online outlet where you can shop the widest selection available anywhere, www.burnyourtongueonline.com. 

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As I've noted once I started to get more into those, Fresnos for me are one of the better tasting peppers out there. They're fantastic in sauce, so good, in fact, that they can almost combat the awfulness of the use of the apple cider vinegar here...almost. Apple cider vinegar is, of course, one of the longer running "health" fads, largely propagated by the Bragg's company and their ace marketing and like all fads, it tends not to be particularly rooted in truth as well as greatly overstaying its relative welcome. I, for one, will be beyond thrilled when it finally ends and makers stop wrecking their hot sauces with it.

I suppose I've probably been fairly clear on my thoughts on the flavor notes here, but it's a shame as this could have been an excellent Cajun style sauce, by way of coming a bit closer in feel and tone to Louisiana-style. It is quite watery and the blend of Fresno and Habanero is a quite good one. In fact, had not this been somewhat ruined by the flavor notes of the apple cider vinegar which, admittedly, show up inconsistently, as this is a sauce that needs frequent agitation, we would have had a very excellently flavored entry on our hands here. As it is, it's more streaky than anything. When you don't get the apple cider vinegar hit, you get a good impression of what could have been and it's a shame the sauce is not all like that. Heat-wise, with only Habanero as the heat driver, it was never going to be particularly blazing and this is a fairly moderate round heat.

This is my first product from Mythos and I really love the idea here. Clean, slick labels, though the ingredient text is way, way too small, easily recognizable and with a nice call back to mythology, which has long been a story branch I've loved. I think the ideas of the sauces, fairly simplistic and basic, also match the ideals implied by the labels well and there is some strong potential here. But, for all that, what's in the bottles, the actual sauces have to hit and this one is rather a mixed bag for me. 

Bottom line: How much you will like this sauce is directly dependent on your view of apple cider vinegar as a flavoring, but if it's something you find more preferable than I, this is worth checking out as a slightly hotter than normal Cajun or Louisiana-style sauce.

Breakdown:

       Heat level: 1
       Flavor: 6
       Flexibility: 7
       Enjoyment to dollar factor: 5

Overall: 5