Bottle Description: Where flavor’s key.
Ingredients: Tomato sauce, vinegar, habanero, chilies, salt, garlic
Container: Is this really 5 oz’s? Maybe this is a demo bottle so it’s smaller. Anyways as you can see the label is pretty basic no frills printed out on a home printer ordeal but I certainly wouldn’t dock any points for that. I enjoy a no frills bottle when the market is flooded with so many gimmicky crappy sauces like Eat Shit and Die Hot Sauce.
As a grown man you shouldn’t be telling anyone to eat shit especially your customers. Anyways the Shakey Jake’s label is not going to catch any eyes on the store shelves so it’ll have to attract people by word of mouth.
Appearance: A darker tomato sauce with some seeds.
Smell: In order of appearance: 1) Vinegar (bah!) 2) tomato 3) Habanero 4) a bit of garlic
Consistency: The stopper is actually needed for this sauce because it’s so thin. It is very much like canned soup consistency.
Taste: I hate vinegar sauces. I don’t want a sauce that leaves nothing but a mouthful of puckering sour behind. That being said I really like this sauce. I don’t how they did it but they managed to balance the taste of vinegar into the flavor of the sauce. The vinegar is not obnoxious at all and you don’t end up with a full mouth of sour taste after using this sauce. I think it is the tomato and vinegar that complement each other. The garlic and salt drop in to add some diversity. The habaneros are there. They might not be out in the open but you can taste it throughout the sauce.
Heat: (8.2/10) On food this stuff shouldn’t bother experienced chili heads. Straight out of the bottle though? This stuff bites back.
Field Test: Wield this around with abandon. Remember what it was like to use Tabasco? The old days when you added the stuff to everything and it worked? That is what this sauce can do it’s pretty decent on everything. Have at it.
Final Word: I was surprised, very surprised. The taste of vinegar is there but I’m not repulsed by it. By that fact alone maybe Shakey Jake’s should get the Macarthur genius grant. They could use the grant to make better labels.
Overall: 8.7/10. A good all around sauce that does not have anything that puts it above and beyond but is an old reliable type of sauce.
SHAKEY JAKE’S
P.O. Box 65
Tiro, Ohio 44887
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Posted by: clint - Categories: Hot Sauce Reviews, Hot Sauce Stuff
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Thanks for the review Clint. After the last review of a Shakey Jakes sauce, its nice to see that he won’t be judged strictly on that one review.
Hey there SWEET PANTS!! 
How’s it going, haven’t talked to you in awhile.
Thx for the review clint!
Haven’t we all designed and printed our own labels at some point in the biz? I think Shakey deserves a 10 for his efforts and a 10 for his positive response in the last review… 
btw Shakey, if you should ever consider someone to design a label for ya, give Ryan @ angrypepper a try.
Vic on 7/16/2006 at 11:32 am said:
Good review Clint, the sauce sounds interesting. I have also found on occasion a very good sauce hidden behind a very plain/very basic label, guess it could be part of the whole treasure hunt appeal I just love.
Heck, take a look at Blair’s first labels. Labels are something that can changed. Where as the quality of the sauce is the main subject for consumption. If a sauce is good it will sell by word of mouth whether if it has a simple label. But we know there are plenty of sauces out there with great labels and still taste crappy!!
Alot of times a small manufactuer is putting the effort into the quality of the sauce instead of the packaging. For the money I would like a great tasting sauce with a so-so label then one with a really cool label and not be able to enjoy the sauce.
I guess its a question of being a consumer or collector!!
-Scotty B
Nice job. But you keep bring that other sauce up. Maybe deep inside there was something about it you like. Just maybe ?….LOL
Tracy C on 7/16/2006 at 12:40 pm said:
Thx for the review clint!
Haven’t we all designed and printed our own labels at some point in the biz? I think Shakey deserves a 10 for his efforts and a 10 for his positive response in the last review…
btw Shakey, if you should ever consider someone to design a label for ya, give Ryan @ angrypepper a try.
Very nice Tracy & Scott
I have some of this product and many more in my sample corner in my office.Need too go thru them.
Haha, I brought up the other sauce because I had it upside down and was proceeding to finish of the dregs.
Tracy C on 7/16/2006 at 12:40 pm said:
Thx for the review clint!
Haven’t we all designed and printed our own labels at some point in the biz? I think Shakey deserves a 10 for his efforts and a 10 for his positive response in the last review…
btw Shakey, if you should ever consider someone to design a label for ya, give Ryan @ angrypepper a try.
I don’t know about ‘all’ but certainly ‘most’. I was guilty of the same for years until I was told point blank by a distributor that without a better label, they wouldn’t carry it. Labels represent a serious investment, or at least did back then, that most small sauce makers just can’t afford.
Tracy- added your logo to the StepUp site for your auction efforts. Thanks! huv’s is there also, or should be shortly.
Tracy C on 7/16/2006 at 12:40 pm said:
Thx for the review clint!
Haven’t we all designed and printed our own labels at some point in the biz? I think Shakey deserves a 10 for his efforts and a 10 for his positive response in the last review…
btw Shakey, if you should ever consider someone to design a label for ya, give Ryan @ angrypepper a try.
Dwfinitely talk to ryan. Does GREAT job. Highly recommended
Jim Campbell- StepUpForCharity.org on 7/16/2006 at 2:34 pm said:
I don’t know about ‘all’ but certainly ‘most’. I was guilty of the same for years until I was told point blank by a distributor that without a better label, they wouldn’t carry it. Labels represent a serious investment, or at least did back then, that most small sauce makers just can’t afford.
Tracy- added your logo to the StepUp site for your auction efforts. Thanks! huv’s is there also, or should be shortly.
Thanx jim, not necessary but thanx. I will work on the flyer tonight (tomorrow the very latest) - been busy at nationals.
OMFG THE CHARITY BOTTLES ARE AT $1400 and almost 2 hours to go!!!!!
pmac on 7/16/2006 at 5:04 pm said:
OMFG THE CHARITY BOTTLES ARE AT $1400 and almost 2 hours to go!!!!!
Yikes!! I wasn’t even going to look until a half hour to go, based on the past ones. You gotta be kiddin’ me!!
so much for my top bid of six bucks!!!
pmac on 7/16/2006 at 5:07 pm said:
so much for my top bid of six bucks!!!
pmac your the one that out bid me.
hahah yeah did you bid 5 dollars
cuz i meant dollars! 
what about a 6pack
pmac on 7/16/2006 at 5:07 pm said:
so much for my top bid of six bucks!!!
Got your E-Mail 1400. and going with 2 hours, looks like it could make
2 grand this time, What happened to top dollar on #1 ??WoW!!!!
Winner @$1625 No pressure Jim
Congrats whoever No pressure at all! The more money raised, the more this is a success independent of the # of stairs. It actually *relieves* the pressure on me. Yeah- right 
I cannot imagine what the #1 will go for.
No one on since 6:49, I guess everyone is in shock at the result of the auction! Thanks to everyone who is responsible for the fantastic amount we’re raising for Jim’s charity record attempt!
CaJohn on 7/16/2006 at 10:36 pm said:
No one on since 6:49, I guess everyone is in shock at the result of the auction! Thanks to everyone who is responsible for the fantastic amount we’re raising for Jim’s charity record attempt!
I’m here. Just crazy here in savannah - and I mean CRAZY
huvason on 7/16/2006 at 11:02 pm said:
I’m here. Just crazy here in savannah - and I mean CRAZY
Hey Huvason, how is everything going? Your daughter doing well?
CaJohn on 7/16/2006 at 10:36 pm said:
No one on since 6:49, I guess everyone is in shock at the result of the auction! Thanks to everyone who is responsible for the fantastic amount we’re raising for Jim’s charity record attempt!
Shocking- but very very COOL! So sad that it was too rich for my blood, would have loved to admire them on one of my shelves! 
That is great that this set went so high! I cannot wait to see what the remaining sets go for. Gonna be awesome!
good mourning all. It’s time to get up. Peace
I’ve been up and working for two hours already sleepy head
Thanks very much for the great review, sorry I’ve been away for a while and just got back, also thanks for all the tips and opinons, they will be put to good use. As I’ve stated in the last review, the customers said they like the plain style labels and it has been hard trying to update to a flashier label and still keep the original format in there. I know distributors need all the bings and whistles when it comes to selling a product and thats understandable. As of right now I have 5 stores and a couple of restaurants and taverns that are carrying my sauces. I’m just providing a product that has a basic hot sauce style with a different flavor. The good thing is that Shakey Jake’s is now the #1 sauce in the eateries I supply.
Oh, and yes there is actually 5.2 oz in the bottle, being plastic it looks smaller. I had the plastic bottles for sale in the prison where a lot of my sales are made to my fellow co-workers (no glass containers allowed).
we are trying to find a phone #to order sauce can you help??? shakey jake hot sauce ??
coney island inn on 1/11/2007 at 9:21 am said:
we are trying to find a phone #to order sauce can you help??? shakey jake hot sauce ??
hmmm… no clue. The URL on the bottle didn’t work. email me and I’ll see if I can help.
I recieved a letter from Coney Island Inn, so that order is taken care of. Thanks for the e-mail Loco, good lookin out. All I have is a P.O. Box # on the lable for point of contact. The number by the way is (419) 347-1988, in case this happens again before I get my site up and running.
Shakey,
We miss you here at work damn it! Please recover soon and get back to us! Oh, and bring some hot sauce!
Thanks Tina,
miss you guy also. I still have so things to work out, but I’ll be back soon. My wife put a new bottle in the kitchen last night for you guys.
Take care and keep the kitchen door open…
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Good review Clint, the sauce sounds interesting. I have also found on occasion a very good sauce hidden behind a very plain/very basic label, guess it could be part of the whole treasure hunt appeal I just love.