Blues Brothers Blues Mobile Hot Sauce Review

Blues Brothers Blues Mobile

I suspect that with most vanity sauces, what happened here was more the rule than the exception. To wit, I have already sort of reviewed this sauce, as it strikes me as a pretty direct 1:1 rebottling and relabeling (or, I suppose it could be a clone also) of the CaJohn’s Bourbon-Infused Chipotle Habanero sauce, which is one I reviewed in the first year of doing this blog, back when the BICH came in a flask (follow the TOC link at right, if you want to check that out). It was a sauce I found worked much better as a grill sauce than an actual hot sauce. Interestingly, for this one, the Blues Brothers line seems to be trying to have its own identity like the Alice Cooper and Motley Crue lines, but still also reference CaJohn’s, as that company is name-checked on the bottle.

Now I say “sort of” reviewed in the paragraph above, because as noted in the video for the BICH sauce, the formula has changed a bit from back when the sauce came in that flask (and I bought several bottles to give as Xmas gifts that year) and John Hard was still that company. This new version, with the 5 oz. standard bottles we normally see, was a somewhat muted version, flavor-wise. The ingredient listing here is the same as the revamped version of the BICH, with some slight shuffling of ingredients, powders being used instead of the chiles, etc. While a bit of the harsh edge of the liquor has been sanded off, in its place is a sort of artificiality that I’m not so much a fan of.

While I think the overall flavor combination is still pretty strong and more or less carries the day and makes this an overall enjoyable sauce, I also think it’s important to note when this happens...and that I’ve already reviewed this sauce and eaten and enjoyed it many, many times under a different name.

Bottom line: If you can’t find either of the BICH sauce iterations (both reviewed on this blog - see TOC), you can pick up a bottle of this. Despite the tinkering, it remains a pretty strong sauce overall, though still more to my preference as a grill sauce, where it brings the Maillard reaction to great effect.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 1
            Flavor: 8
            Flexibility: 4
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 8

Overall: 5