Label: A purple label wraps around the 5 oz. bottle with letters in black font. A basic sketch of a Devil with a pitchfork is towards the bottom half of the label. The Devil’s quote is, “Hottest Hellfire, it comes in colors”.
Ingredients:Sun-ripened tropical hot peppers, vinegar, blue mountain pimento (allspice), salt, and 0.1% sorbic acid as a preservative.
Appearance: The sauce is very thick but not as thick as a pure puree. Plenty of pepper flesh is visible as well as seeds and other spices. The color of the sauce is purplish brown with some green mixed in. It makes me wonder what type of peppers are in here because the label nor ingredients didn’t specify. Definitely a different appearance than your normal hot sauce.
Odor: When I opened the gates to Hell, I honestly have to say it did smell quite different than anything in hot sauce I have come across. The aroma is a bit fruity but like an alcoholic drink such as southern comfort or something with a fruity type of flavor. It is so pungent that is the only aroma that I can smell. It really has an alcohol flavor in it that overbears anything else. You are going to think so too if you try this hot sauce. You will be thinking, “Is this hot sauce or some alcoholic beverage?”
The Devil and his sauce on my pizza
Taste: After trying this on pizza I was honestly displeased. It was one of the worst tasting hot sauces that I have had in a while. It is unique. The flavor of the sauce didn’t taste like southern comfort but actually like a shot of JagerMeister. It had that licorice type of flavor to it. I don’t know what is in this sauce, but it seems like there are way too many spices in here. It is a potpourri gone bad. It clearly doesn’t blend with pizza. The salt content was low but I tasted an abundance of salt. It felt like I was at a yankee game and eating nothing but oversalted pretzels. Maybe this sauce is for plain tortilla chips, I dont know.
Final Thoughts: After trying this hot sauce I can say that I really don’t want to go to Hell. The flavor is too strong, resembling an alcoholic flavor. If you want a great sauce with a trace of alcohol try Jack Daniel’s Lynchburg Tennessee Habanero. The heat was somewhat there but the flavor was just too weird for me.
Packaging 5/10
Aroma 2/10
Taste 2/10
Appearance 3/10
Heat 5/10
Overall 3.4
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I just feel there is way too much spice in it, it smells and tastes like alcohol, LOL. I will admit it is unique and I am sure it has its followers.. Just not for me as a standard sauce..
Well I just gotta’ say that you are too far gone for me to take your advice. I have used Hell Fire for about 10 years-and it works for me and always has. You can buy it at the local grocery and it has better flavor and heat than most “corner market” sauces. As far as the alcohol flavor-do you even drink alcohol?? This sauce has been around soo long you might have a bottle that is older than you and went bad. I just brought a bottle with me to work that expires Oct 16,2008 and gave it a whirl before writing this and I think I will keep buying it. Sorry for ripping on your review but this sauce should be a staple. You think salty-try Blair’s Original Death.
ATKRIDER on 4/25/2007 at 10:04 am said:
Well I just gotta’ say that you are too far gone for me to take your advice. I have used Hell Fire for about 10 years-and it works for me and always has. You can buy it at the local grocery and it has better flavor and heat than most “corner market” sauces. As far as the alcohol flavor-do you even drink alcohol?? This sauce has been around soo long you might have a bottle that is older than you and went bad. I just brought a bottle with me to work that expires Oct 16,2008 and gave it a whirl before writing this and I think I will keep buying it. Sorry for ripping on your review but this sauce should be a staple. You think salty-try Blair’s Original Death.
I agree with what you have said. I could have gotten a bad bottle but there was no date on it and I have to still review it assuming what I got is what is produced…
there looks like a date printed on the bottle in the picture posted. smudged maybe.
These guys have been putting out sauce for a good while. I bought a bottle about 10 years or so ago and thought it was OK, not bad, not overly impressed. I bought a second bottle about 6 months ago and was disappointed. I think maybe I’ve had too many sauces that were much better during that ten year lapse.
It was too salty and just didn’t taste all that good to me. It had sort of an off taste. Maybe it was an old bottle, who knows.
I won’t be buying it again but there must be some folks out there that like it or they wouldn’t keep selling it.
David on 4/25/2007 at 11:02 pm said:
These guys have been putting out sauce for a good while. I bought a bottle about 10 years or so ago and thought it was OK, not bad, not overly impressed. I bought a second bottle about 6 months ago and was disappointed. I think maybe I’ve had too many sauces that were much better during that ten year lapse.
It was too salty and just didn’t taste all that good to me. It had sort of an off taste. Maybe it was an old bottle, who knows.
I won’t be buying it again but there must be some folks out there that like it or they wouldn’t keep selling it.
Thats how I feel. Way too salty and the taste is very hard and not pepper oriented.
I bought a bottle of this about 10 years ago , and thought it was one of the worst things there could be for a hot sauce . It had a syrupy , sweet , weird-candy-hot taste . Not for me , but there’s something for everyone .
As far as the ’strange’ taste, i think this sauce is made with scotch-bonnet peppers, which tend to be rather sweet and fruity? the label on the bottle i have says ‘habanero’ but that is obviously incorrect. just a thought…
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I like this sauce. It’s flavor is better suited for wings.
l’d put it around 7.9