The Bronx Greenmarket

Hello again fiery friends! Today I want to look at one of my favorite types of sauces yet one that goes woefully unrecognized to it's fullest: green hot sauce. This brought me to a sauce company connected with not only with quality product and flavor, but a higher goal of bringing urban areas into agricultural production. I'm excited to get started so let's do so!
The Bronx Green Hot Sauce initially caught my eye just as a green sauce that I hadn't yet tried. Looking a little into Small Axe Peppers, the sauce company responsible for our focus today, I found that there is much more to the story. Small Axe sources all of their peppers from community gardens in urban areas to encourage urban agricultural thriving, and thereby greater cultural synthesis. Every time they sell one of their sauces, financial support goes to more than 75 community gardens in 15 cities across the U.S.
The label is fairly unremarkable. A depiction of what is presumably a jalapeno is placed central to the front with raised letters reading "The Bronx Hot Sauce" featuring a green banner with the word "Greenmarket" within. The color is a dull green with quite prominent sediment appearing in the model made visible with the slightest swirl of sauce. The consistency is thin, but not thin to the point of resembling a Louisiana style sauce. There is no pour guard on this bottle so pour with care.
The flavor here is somewhat unexpected. An initial taste of sweetness his but is quickly tempered with a more earthy flavor. Garlic is prominent after the apple cider vinegar sweetness as well as your commonly found onion and salt. Surprisingly the vinegar taste is not as powerful as I hypothesized it might be. I can only nod to the though that the sweetness of the cane sugar and apple in the vinegar tempered it. The end experience is one of a happy mix of sweet and savory with just the right amount of vegetable freshness.
This is a hotter sauce than I though it might be. It hits the tip of the tongue almost immediately, but not before you get the first sweet kick. I got some on the roof of my mouth and it lingered there for a bit. Of course the lip burn is present but does not remain for too long. The only remnant of lip burn after a few minutes is a cool tingle.
I think that this sauce is a winner at the end of the day. The flavor layering is on point and, mixed with just the right amount of heat for cooking and even just topping food, this might be a regularly used sauce in my kitchen. At $6.99 for 5 ounces, I encourage all of my friends reading this to check this out. After all, the cause is one worth supporting.
Until next time friends, stay warm!