Blairs Beyond Death Sauce

There’s no hiding that I’m a glutton for pain when it comes to spicy food. I will eat hot peppers whole – Habaneros, Scorpions – I’ve done them both. Death Wings, Atomic Wings, World’s hottest this, hot that Suicidal blah blah – I eat it. I burn my mouth, I burn my stomach, I burn everything in between leading up to where the real pain begins. When you get to this level, it becomes an addiction. You find yourself answering the question ‘is that spicy hot?’ with ‘I’m not a good one to ask that question’. You don’t answer that with pride, you answer it with remorse, that you’re aware of the fact that you have a problem, and that you’ve subjected your taste buds to horrendous torture.

So I got my hands on a bottle of Blair’s ‘Beyond Death’. Blair is the son of a bitch I have to blame for my addiction to over the top heat. I remember getting a bottle of ‘Sudden Death’ in a christmas stocking one year – I remember thinking it was like any hot sauce I had tried before. That was not the case. The phrase ‘made with ginseng’ on the bottom was purely to serve as a distraction for how over the top hot it was. My life was changed after trying that hot sauce. If any of you know the Blair hot sauce line, you’ll know that he’s got sauces that come with a skull keychain on them. You’ll know that there are $100 bottles of excruciation out there with the Blair name on it. That he holds records. That he knows his shit when it comes to making stuff.

So Beyond Death – how hot can it be, right? A decent sized bottle covered in wax, marketed as a collector’s edition hot sauce. Sorry, I don’t collect, I wanted to try this stuff.  Let’s have a look at the back of the bottle:

A nice big warning on the back to ‘use with extreme caution’ – well I wouldn’t want to do something like that now would I ?

And yes, that’s some chili heating up in a skillet in the background – some yummy goodness. So how the hell do you open a bottle coated in wax? Maker’s mark makes it easy by having a little pull-tab..  not the case with this stuff. Guess I needed to break out the cutlery for this one :

Not easy!

Almost there –

Ohhhh yeahhhh – look at that oily orange and dark red action – At this point in my life I can tell that this is going to be a scorcher. The smell is actually really nice – Normal extract style hot sauces have this ‘capsaicin’ aroma – it’s pungent and chemical almost..  But this smelled pretty good! Well, you know I can’t be light with this stuff – I gotta try it!

Look at that sauce – look how dynamic that is. That is a bomb waiting to go off in someone’s mouth. My mouth.

I ate that whole spoonful. The flavor was actually very good for a sauce of this heat level. The chipotle was very prominent – smokey and souther flavor. So good-  The burn was quick and not as intense as I expected. It was very brutal, don’t get me wrong, but holy crap was it a tasty sauce.

Once it got my approval, my Chili took a shower in it..

probably got a little wax in there, but who’s keeping track of that.

I strongly recommend this hot sauce to anyone that wants to bring on the heat in their life. I could see using this as a dipping sauce if I really hated myself some day. I certainly enjoyed it on my chili – half way through the bowl my brain started to seize up, but that’s the point of a hot sauce like this.

Thanks Blair!

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