Kolohe Kid Hawaiian & Ghost Pepper Sauce

Smell

Holy vinegar! The similarities between this sauce and Tobasco begin on with the nose. Honestly, it’s a little tough to repetedly smell this sauce to give a report. It’s vinegar and ghose pepper, neither of which make for a particularly pleasing bouquet. If you give the sauce a chance and work past the vinegar and pepper you can definitely get a hefty dose of garlic. 

Taste

5 years ago the words ‘Ghost Pepper’ would strike fear into the heart of most people. We hear Ghost Pepper and we think extreme spice. The kind of spice that makes you sweat, question your insanity, drives you into a dark deep depression, then pushes that all out through the wrong end (if you know what I mean). But that’s not at all the case any more. Hot sauce makers nowadays are able to tame peppers like the Ghost Pepper so we ge the best out of these little bundles of joy. A sauce like the Kolohe Kid Hawaiian & Ghost Pepper sauce is a prime example of this. 

Initially the flavor of this sauce hits in the same way any vinegar heavy sauce hits. Straight up the back of the throat almost searing the sinus’. But then the wonderful spice tingle bursts through with that classic Ghost Pepper sear. This isn’t jalapeno or habanero, it’s definitely Ghost Pepper, but somehow tame. All the best features of the pepper shine through perhaps most of all the lingering heat. I’m sitting here writing this 15-20 minutes after my last taste of the sauce and there’s still just a little lingering heat, it’s great. 

This sauce is a daily use sauce for anyone with a thing for vinegar based sauces. If you’re looking to up the ante on Tobasco, or switch it up from any of the louisianna sauces this one’s for you.