Tropical Pepper Hot Ghost Pepper Sauce, 5 oz (Pack of 1)

The ingredients list is really simple, stating: Naga Jolokia Chile Pepper, Water, Salt, Acetic Acid, Garlic, Cornstarch, Xanthan Gun, Citrus Fiber. The bottle is marketing hype — "More Than One Drop Is Suicide!" and other hyperbolic nonsense, but that certainly does not detract from the actual quality of this savory, sometimes searing hot sauce. Keeping their idealized sauce focused on what it wants to achieve, they've consummated a hot sauce that was worthy of my third buy so far; not one other hot sauce fitting that criteria for all the hot sauce i've ordered on Amazon.The price is great for a 5 oz. bottle simply because how little you have to dot your food with to satisfy your taste buds; whether the buds are in need of flavor or heat, this sauce provides a great balance. This isn't a sauce that is consumed as quickly as something like Secrete Aardvark-like hot sauces.For seasoned capsaicin (the chemical responsible for the pain in your mouth) junkie's with a well-built tolerance, it's actually not that bad as far as the heat scale. If you are NOT tolerated to capsaicin, you will find yourself with sweaty brows, teary eyes, coughing fits, and a pain that is "round" in it's complexion — meaning, it doesnt hit you hard, but slow, then fading off rather quickly as no oil base is used (this is a water based sauce).Heat? Ya, it's hot, but compared to something like "Dave's Ultimate Insanity Sauce", it falls short. That's okay because you do not want the heat to overwhelm the flavor, and more importantly, the heat is not from extract ghost pepper, but pure and simple pureed ghost peppers. Your nose will still drip fiercely.My only befuddlement is the name: "Tropical Pepper Hot Ghost Pepper Sauce" So, what's "tropical" about this sauce? The only ingredient listed that follows its description is "citrus fiber" (last and least ingredient), and even then, I suspect it's more used for constituent purposes and not flavor. Tropical because of it's acidity? Well, no. In fact, The acidity may be a little high due to the acetic acid amount, but it's not really a big deal. This is simply NOT tropical flavored. It's a very simple flavor; garlic allowing itself some room; very slight sourness, but the flavor is mostly achieved by it's number one ingredient, unperturbed by a set stylish pizzazz of other ingredients, the Naga Jolokia pepper. It's just good, clean hot fun.

I’m a huge spice head and love intense heat. This isn’t the spiciest you’ll ever have but it is WELL ABOVE AVERAGE! You need to be experienced with hot sauce to be able to tolerate this. It tastes amazing as well so it’s an every day sauce if you want a good high level of heat! Enjoy!

If you really like heat with good flavor this is the sauce for you. The tropical pepper co make some of the best hot sauce available. Warning, this is very hot, measuring over 500,000 scoville units on the scoville scale. The taste is awesome, it's doesn't have a vinegar flavor, just a perfect blend of pepper flavor.

I am a heat junkie with a distinct preference for Naga Jolokia hot sauces. Out of all the Naga Jolokia hot sauces I have had, I this one is one of my favorites. I have tried many sauces based on the Naga Jolokia pepper, including Dave's Ghost Pepper Sauce, Melinda's, and The Ghost Hot Sauce.In terms of heat, this is one of the hotter sauces. Only Dave's Ghost Pepper Sauce is hotter. This sauce also has a great combination of both initial heat and a slow burn.The heat does not overwhelm the flavor, which tastes strongly of the Naga Jolokia pepper. A quick note on Naga Jolokia pepper flavor - it lacks the sweetness of something like a habanero and is instead slightly bitter/astringent with an undertone of apricot. In this sauce, the bitter flavor is present but not overwhelming. I think Melinda's Naga Jolokia sauce has better flavor, but that sauce lacks the heat of the Tropical Pepper sauce.My one quibble is that there is no flow-control cap insert in the bottle. This seems like a serious oversight considering the bottle warns that "more than one drop is suicide." Luckily I had some old hot sauce bottles and I was able to put in my own flow-control insert. However if you don't have one you are liable to dump out way too much sauce by accident.Overall, while this sauce is neither the hottest nor best tasting Naga Jolokia sauce out there, in my opinion it has the best balance of heat and flavor out of the Naga Jolokia sauces I have tried.

This will blow out most palates but I found if you pour some in a spoon, then pour as much back into the bottle as possible, you can add it to a pot of chili and it adds tremendous flavor and some zing that almost anyone can tolerate.

It's pretty hot. The heat dissipates really quickly, though. I went from mad dog 357 to this and I thought this sauce would be a hard step up. Even though I had gotten used to 357, I didn't imagine for a second that the next level in scoville units would be so manageable.

I really like this sauce. I don't have an atomic tolerance for heat and actually don't find it blisteringly painful (it does linger though). If you're looking for something more painful, Dave's might fit the bill better. Flavor is balanced on the acidity (not all vinegar like Tobasco), not completely thick like a pepper puree, and goes well with about anything. Incredible value for the peppers you get.

Bought this for my girlfriend's son who decided he needed to graduate to a hotter pepper sauce. He now regrets making that statement in front of me. As he sits in pain eating it most nights (of his own free will) he constantly asks himself through his tears, why does ghost pepper sauce hurt so good? I don't think I understand today's generation.