So I got a bottle of this from a fellow redditor, Jeff. He's a super nice guy and very pleasant to talk to and deal with. Shipping was very quick and very secure. The bottle is securely sealed with a nice pull-tab to open and a cool gold-foil topper. Good presentation, imo.
I opened the bottle on Saturday and decided to do a straight spoonful first, then a tortilla with lightly melted cheddar cheese as my first two taste tests. The sauce is absolutely delicious. It is habanero and jalapeno based, so it has a nice kick but it is one of those sauces that if you have a bit of tolerance you can slather all over your food and not worry about being overwhelmed with heat.
The ingredients are simple and straight forward; after the peppers, the next two listed are garlic and yellow onion, wrapped up with some paprika in vinegar. The garlic is definitely there, but I feel like the star of the show is the yellow onion. Combined with slight fruitiness of the habaneros, the sweetness of the yellow onions help combine with the overall savory profile of the sauce to make for an absolutely delicious taste. It's not a super thick sauce, but definitely a tad thicker than something like normal Tabasco; I'd say it's close in thickness to Tabasco's Scorpion Sauce or Cholula; it will definitely stick to your food but it's not a dipper, if you know what I mean.
If you enjoy onions and garlic, you will enjoy this sauce, that's for sure. So far I've used it on a couple breakfast burritos, some Mexican-stuffed pasta shells, and a chicken sandwich and look forward to seeing what else I can put it to use on.
Overall, I'm super happy with it; I've gone through half the bottle already and have another half dozen on the way. As I said above, Jeff is a really nice guy and very enthusiastic about his sauce; I look forward to seeing what comes of the various irons he's got in the fire currently. If you wanted to reach out to him to see about getting some, his email address is [info@blackgoldhotsauce.com](mailto:info@blackgoldhotsauce.com) and it sounds like he's got a website in the works that will hopefully be up and running in the near future.
Thanks for reading!
by HenneBakedHam