Captain Mowatt's Fuzz Hot Sauce Review

Captain Mowatt’s Fuzz

I think the best way to describe this sauce is to think of it in terms of savory peach. Generally, we don’t associate fruit-based sweet hots necessarily with the savory or umami, while still retaining a very peach forward flavor, but this sauce has pulled off that trick exceedingly well. Add in a bit of astringency from the vinegar and the citrus and this is kind of a fascinating concoction and, to this point anyway, probably the sauce from Captain Mowatt’s I’ve liked best.

It’s kind of hard to find a really good to great peach sauce, partially because I think we all relate individually to that fruit in different ways. I am, as my good buddy Roger from Burn Your Tongue coined it, perfectly partial to peaches myself and any sauce with them in it has my instant attention, but not all of them are created equally, to be sure. If I were to peg this one as one of those aforementioned ratings, it would probably be the former moreso than the latter, but that is because I always want (and hope) the sauces will be more sweet. Partly this is because of preference, but also partly because those sauces tend to keep the sometimes delicate nature of peach flavor more intact. That this one does, yet is decidedly not a particularly sweet sauce is something of a marvel. It definitely is no dessert sauce.

Heat-wise, we have Red Jalapeno, Cayenne, and Bird’s Eye, so nothing too scorching. It adds a nice little tingle of that old fiery hit, just enough to let you know it’s there, but this is not a challenging sauce and it definitely is there more as accompaniment. For me, I find I don’t like pitted fruits generally a whole lot on pork or pizza, but find them, including this, to be exceedingly nice on the lighter colored bird meats, so both chicken and turkey. Fruit-based sweet hots by nature are a bit on the less flexible side, instead leaning in to do what it does with as much excellence as possible.

Bottom line: I find this overall to be a fairly unique and interesting approach to peach hot sauces, but an exceedingly delicious one with good peach flavor well in hand...or in tongue.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 1
            Flavor: 8
            Flexibility: 4
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 10

Overall: 6