Savannah Bee Honey Hot Sauce Review

Savannah Bee Honey Hot Sauce

Note: Support video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPmP5AseEq8

Not to be confused with the Savannah Bee Fire Honey (which has a forthcoming, as of the date of the writing of this review, anyway, FOH video - check Hot Honeys & Syrups playlist, link at right), this product is meant to be a hot sauce and it is perhaps the epitome of my expectations when I hear the phrase "honey hot sauce." We basically have here their excellent honey, paired with Scotch Bonnets, a wise choice as that is an outstanding pepper, and then the usual salt and vinegar additions. This is reflected first in the color, which looks, as you would expect, as a more or less paler version of a honey, with bits and pieces of peppers knocking about.

A couple things happen here...while the great taste of the honey is definitely the lead, we get a healthy dose of the pepper flavor, along with some moderate heat. We also get quite a lot of a looser sauce, given the introduction of the vinegar, but it is all balanced extremely well, straddling the line between what reads as one foot in the hot honey world (this actually tastes more like a honey than some of the other hot honeys I've done FOH videos on) and one foot in the hot sauce world.

The great thing about honey, if you like honey, is that it can pair with a fairly wide variety of foods. Pretty much anything fried is good, but you can also use it on breakfast foods or pizza as well. For me, since this one is a touch on the runny side, I tend to use it more where it can soak into something, which does cut down a bit on the flexibility, but the label also mentions drinks. While this is true, I'm not sure how much of a thing that actually is, as it is an application I almost never think to use and am not sure I would enjoy totally. I like eating heat more than drinking it, if that makes sense. 

All in all, while this sauce is a bit on the pricey side, this, like the aforementioned Fire Honey, is quite delicious and I'm rather thoroughly enjoying this bottle, as I thoroughly enjoyed the honey. This is, after all, the entire point of condiments, to enhance and increase enjoyment when it's used and both of those fit the bill marvelously.

Bottom line: For me, this is the new benchmark of honey hot sauces. While it is a bit light on the heat side, the deliciousness of the sauce overall comes pretty close to making up for it. 

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 1
            Flavor: 10
            Flexibility: 7
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 9

Overall: 7