This was a gift from my wife. She picked it up at Hot Licks in San Diego. She called me from the store and told me they didn’t have any of the sauces I had requested; no Mild to Wild, no CSIGI, no Fat Kid sauces and no THT. Come to find out she only wrote down the first three sauces assuming they would have one of them. Hot Licks did actually have THT.
I had my wife read off the ingredients to me: Roasted Habaneros, vinegar, salt. Short and sweet! No preservatives, no extracts, I’ll take it.
Now not having a visual of the label, I imagined a Grizzly Adams looking character with a habanero in his pipe or something like that. Instead, it has the silhouette of a mountain climber ascending a sheer vertical, sun shining behind him, framed on two sides with the word Mountainman. In the middle of the label is a graphic somewhat resembling a habanero. A clean and simple label. I can’t help but notice that the nutritional facts are conspicuously missing!?! Aren’t they required? A ‘some like it hotline’ is listed, but it seems like it has a grammatical error ““ “and hotter that you can’t find it”¦” Maybe that’s how they wanted it to read.
Now, when you open this sauce, you are in for a treat from the word go. The aroma is smoky, vinegar habanero. The consistency is that of syrup, while the appearance is dark reddish brown with small, thin curls of pepper skin, seeds and flecks of charred pepper suspended in it.
W/ Jalapeño Bread
W/ Pork Pot Pie
W/ Steak Quesadilla
The flavor is a rich smoky habanero with a bit of vinegar finish and decent heat. As for heat, I would give it a 6. This is my current favorite sauce. Unfortunately, it died within two days of entering my house. I let my sons try it, big mistake!! I fought them off until the last half inch, which they finished off over Cheez-Its. I put this on everything I could get my hands on. Even at $10 per bottle, I will definitely be buying more of them.
W/ Cheez-Its
Catskill Mountain Specialties, Inc.
127 Church Hill Rd
Eddyville, NY 12401
1-800-311-FIRE
Written by Sam
Nick Lindauer founded Hot Sauce Blog in 2004, making it one of the internet's very first hot sauce review sites. After 20+ years of tasting, reviewing, and attending every major fiery foods event in the country, he's back behind the keyboard covering the hot sauce world he helped build.
18 responses to “Review: Mountain Man Fire Roasted Habanero Hot Sauce”
One of my favorite hot sauces – but $10 a bottle??? That’s way more then you’ll pay online on any number of hot sauce sites.
this is a great sauce, and we have it at the local Whole Foods for way under $10.
I have almost picked this one up so many times, just because I liked the label. Now I’ll definitely have to get some. Great review! Now, I’m off to look up what “port pot pie” is!
No FKS…. i’ll have to reach out to them!
“nutritional facts” are not required under certian conditions (i.e. smaller comapanies), but ingredients list must be there.
$4.29 at JJ’s……HeHe
Wow! What a price difference from JJ’s to Hot Licks.
Looks like a good sauce, simple yet probably very flavorful from roasting the habs!
I’ve been after Hot Licks for a while now.
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I have REALLY got to start buying sauces online. It was a gift, but it was good enough that I would pay that much. She also bought a bottle of Capt. Thom’s Dia De La Muerta for 9.95.
Just like a chicken pot pie, only pork. I made that one myself. I also make Elk, chicken and turkey pot pies. MMMM meat and veggies in a thick gravy sealed in a flaky pie crust.
Nice Review Sam, I emailed you a little while ago, got questions
They were open on the table by the side of the road with all the other contest sauces Saturday night, I assume they were judged.
Hotlicks has had my stuff from time to time. Not real consistent with the ordering though.
I am tired of you guys reviewing hot sauces and making me add them on my ever-growing list of hot sauces to buy. Can you review some bad ones now and then. Perhaps a salty one. 😉
Yup – had this as well and I have to say it is a great sauce. No one carries it here though. I just happened to luck into it.
Can somebody post a link to JJ’s please.
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http://www.junglejims.com/
http://www.google.com/
Junglejim’s@com
Thanks!
I have been using this sauce for 10yrs. I won,t anything else. Jeff Canada