Thursday, January 23, 2020

Watchoutdehnow


Hello again fellow heat explorers! Today we will take a look at J. Anthony Brown's Watchoutdehnow Habanero Hot Sauce. I wasn't able to find too much information about the company other than their catalog of hot sauces, so we'll skip right to the good stuff today: the review.
The label is fairly simple, featuring a mustached cowboy smiling with J. Anthony Brown's signature along the bottom right of the main label image. The font for the titular sauce is reminiscent of one in comic books of yesterday. On one side of the label, it is suggested that we should look at the catalog that presumably would include sauces, salsas, nuts, and chips but I found no such diversity there.
The sauce is a fairly light shade of red with a consistency of a Louisiana style one and that gave me a tinge of anticipatory disappointment. There is very little sediment apparent in the liquid but when the bottle is tipped, it is detectable though minute. A plastic pour protector is present an necessary.
It has a lightness to the flavor, in contrast to some of the products that we've explored together in the past. It has a very light fruit note without giving the impression of too much sweet presence; citrus comes to the fore without taking center stage. The garlic is there but is fairly balanced with the salt in the mixture. There is a garden aspect to this which is emphasized by the fairly heavy carrot flavor here.
The heat is not as intense as I expected/hoped for a habanero sauce. It affects and remains mostly on the tip of the tongue and lips with repeated samplings. To be sure, this sauce amplifies the burn as tastings increase. This effect is more pronounced than some other sauces in my repertoire. The fire dissipates quickly though.
At $15.00 from the home site ($8.99 on Amazon), I think that this might be overpriced. The sauce is more flavorful than some of its more mainstream colleagues but, at the end of the day it's more of a glorified table sauce than anything. I can't say that I recommend this for an addition to one's collection, though I should note that the carrot and garlic tastes pair well with eggs.

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