Foo Foo Mama Choo

I picked up a sauce called Foo Foo Mama Choo made by High River Sauces based primarily on the fact that it's a Carolina Reaper sauce. Always looking to explore heat, I was compelled to explore a Reaper sauce with you. As many of you chiliheads know the Carolina Reaper was the pepper with the highest recorded Scoville rating until Pepper X recently dethroned it. Let's see what our expedition yields.
High River Sauces was founded in 2011 and is based out of Kings Park, NY. Their mission statement is "to rid the world of bad hot sauce". Formed to stoke the founder Steve Seabury's passion for food and music. The company uses organic ingredients to make their gourmet sauces. They also make Rogue hot sauce which is one of the top sauces in my collection.
The label is fun, with what appears to be a demon face made of fire grabbing center attention. The demon greatly resembles popular depictions of a Japanese Oni. This is front of a background appearing to be bamboo. I'd like to make note of the font that makes up the name High River Sauces.
It is very obviously a font intended to be similar to an Old West font such as one might see outside of a saloon in that era.
Foo Foo Mama Choo's consistency is a bit thinner than I expected. Pour slowly or you might unintentionally overpour. It is a nice rich red with a great deal of sediment dotting the liquid within the bottle. It promises a citric acidity from tomatoes that I absolutely adore. Let's see if the flavor lives up to the suggestions of the color.
The taste does indeed meet the tomato implications of the color. As well there is a strong black pepper and garlic taste. It's slightly salty with a vaguely metallic taste that I learned was a slight hint of ginger when I read the ingredients list. A well balanced profile overall and one that would pair with many foods, especially chili, quite nicely.
Folks this is a fiery sauce. I immediately reached for my water bottle upon the first sampling. A sharp stab of pain initially greeted the tip of my tongue as I first ingested it, spreading quickly to the roof of my mouth and the back of my tongue. Lip tingling presented itself rather quicker than to which I am accustomed. I'm gonna have fun cooking with this sauce.
I think that this will be one of the aces in my collection going forward. The deep flavor profile coupled with the profound heat here will add to food favorites already enjoyed and hopefully bring life to new endeavors in the future. At $7.99 (plus $3.99 shipping) directly from the source or for $8.73 (with free shipping for Prime members) it could, and probably should, be a nice addition to your own. Until next time friends!