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Bottle Description: Warning! This sauce is as vicious as the creature portrayed on the label! It’s a tasty blend, made with the World’s two hottest chiles This raptoreque elizir will devour your tastebuds, leave a fiery trail through your system and bite once more when leaving. Watch Out! It could leave you with a SoreAss.
Ingredients: Chiles (red Savina, Naga Jolokia), vinegar, onion, tomatoes, lemon juice, garlic, salt, spices.
Container: Very fierce dinosaur. RAR! I didn’t get the Soreass part of the title until I read the description. Soreass get it? Like dino-SAUR except SORE-ASS! If this sauce were on the shelves I’d have a hard time telling what this was. No mention of the peppers used in this sauce or that it is hot. To be honest if I had no prior knowledge of the sauce I might pass it up.
Appearance: This sauce has the Cajon’s look. The pepper mash is clearly visible and you can tell there is a ton of chiles in this sauce. Looks like an orangey brown concoction of mash peppers.
Smell: Vinegary but there’s also the strong punch of peppers. The aromas culminate in a strong wind of garlic. Tasty.
Consistency: This is a thick sauce and like many thick sauces it clogs the neck of the bottle. You might have to stick a chopstick into the neck every once in a while to unclog it.
Taste: The taste is very much akin to many of CaJohn’s other sauces. Vinegary with lots and lots of chile pepper flavor. This sauce starts with the tartness of the vinegar but mellows out into the chile pepper flavor. The chile flavor is quite quick however and it precedes a heavy dose of garlic and spices to round things off. This sauce has a lot of chile flavor but it fades quickly. Imagine a one-two punch of vinegar then chile and then you get knocked out onto a canvas of garlic and spices.
Heat: (9.0/10) Not suicide hot but it’s pretty damn close. I would be careful with this sauce. I took a quick swig for the tasting and now my heart hurts. Soreass tomorrow.
Field Test: This sauce is a flavor enhancer and I don’t think you should add too much of this stuff to anything because it can be quite overpowering. It’s best to use this sauce in conjunction with a food that is heavily flavored. I haven’t stopped using this sauce since I’ve gotten it.
Final Word: Tasty and hot as hell. I’ve been blowing through this stuff on every meal.
Overall: 9.2/10.
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Columbus, Ohio
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Chilehead Comments: 12 Comments
Posted by: clint - Categories: Uncategorized
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12 Comments
I’m still mad at CaJohn for making me try this and his other little vials of death during the Houston Hot Sauce Festival. 
This NAGA pepper sauce is very tasty WITH the uniquely building NAGA heat.
I’d put it right up there with Danny Cash’s NAGA Bomb any day; and it’s cheaper!!
I have both versions. Haven’t tried either yet. Got to use up some of my others that I have open first.
hudd on 1/10/2008 at 3:07 pm said:
I have both versions. Haven’t tried either yet. Got to use up some of my others that I have open first.
Ditto for me too. On the shelf, got it during the holidays, will try sooner or later. So many hot sauces, so little frig space, so little time. Good review Clint.
This, like the Naga Sabi Bomb has a heat that seems to build as you eat. The burn for me lasts a long time. Clint, didn’t the flavor of the tomatoes stand out?
General, this is your assignment to bring on Thursday, I have never tried this, cannot wait !!!
Looking forward to trying this sauce! Hopefully it will make its way up North soon!
Sam on 1/10/2008 at 7:04 pm said:
This, like the Naga Sabi Bomb has a heat that seems to build as you eat. The burn for me lasts a long time. Clint, didn’t the flavor of the tomatoes stand out?
the long lasting burn is what really made this sauce special to me, and all i really got out of the flavor was tomatos so i was wondering the same question
arizona jack on 1/10/2008 at 7:36 pm said:
General, this is your assignment to bring on Thursday, I have never tried this, cannot wait !!!
i would if i could but i aint got it. i have the Danny cash’s naga bomb though? email me.
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Because there is so much heat and not as much flavor in the Naga Jalokia pepper, it makes it incredibly hard to use in traditional cooking. Glad you like it.
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So the word “Naga” didn’t give it away? Not knocking your opinion, just find it curious.
And yes, there’s a little wordplay involved with the name of the sauce. The regular version of the label actually is called Naga Saurus, SoreAss was the novelty version. When I did the label i sent the first draft to CaJohn as “Sore Ass” as a joke even though he told me the name was gonna be “Saurus”. Well, he actually liked it and decided to do both versions. LOL!!
Nice review Clint, very descriptive and honest.