Go Chu Jang

Hello again friends! I apologize for the lack of a review last week. It was my birthday week so I used the time to treat myself. No matter! Today we're going to do a deeper dive on Go Chu Jang sauce brought to us by Bibigo. It claims to be a "hot&sweet" sauce on the bottle so let's see how accurate that is, shall we?
Bibigo makes Korean-influenced food products found easily in groceries and restaurants. They were founded in 2010 and created by CJ, Korea's Number One Food Company. Bibigo claims that they intend to "bring modern, authentic Korean taste to your kitchen". Their site has a decent amount of recipes with which to use their products.
While the label itself isn't overly awe-inspiring, the shape of the bottle is what I found drawing me to the sauce. With a vaguely pear shape, it's fairly unique for grocery store fair. There is a depiction of a chili pepper as it's main subject with a statement declaring the sauce all purpose. The rest of the label is pretty straight-forward with the possible exceptions of the Bibigo and CJ logos towards the top.
The consistency is very pleasing to me. Think of a ketchup yet far thicker and with a deeper red color. The pour is nice and slow, controlled I might call it. It is contained in a squeeze bottle and the sauce never touched a centimeter of surface that I didn't intend.
The flavor begins with a slight sweetness that is immediately followed by salt, garlic, and onion. It's very rich and full of a fresh vegetable feel. It ends with a deep pepper flavor leading to an overall flavor experience that I found well rounded and mildly complex without seeming to try overly hard.
The punch of the sauce is not particularly striking at first. It crept on me upon my first few samplings and hit me in the back of the throat, surprising me. It doesn't linger very long and I noticed no lip burn at all. The burn becomes less harsh upon multiple samplings.
The Bibigo site doesn't appear to offer the option to purchase on the site but does have a "Find This Product in Store" feature in which you enter your area code and it will tell you where the particular product you're searching for is sold near you. On Amazon.com it's going for $4.89 at the time of this writing. That's a great price for an 11.5 ounce bottle! I plan on using this fairly often, especially for the tacos that I love to make. I think that the sweetness and small kick of a burn would match well for me there. I'm a little hesitant to use it in chili as I'm slightly averse to sweetness in that dish.
Until next time friends keep the heat alive!