Inner Beauty Hot Sauce

This is one hot sauce I don't ever want to run out of. It is that good. The slightly sweet and tangy taste with that perfect hit of heat makes it one of our favorites. I use it on shrimp instead of jerk seasoning and it absolutely perfection! It's a nice sized bottle and a good value for the price. It's so versatile that I find myself reaching for it again and again.

Great to see this back! It seems like the original to me, but it has been a decade since I've had it. We used to buy this at an organic supermarket named Fresh Fields. They were taken over by Whole Foods, who promptly discontinued it. Hope they can get distribution at Shoprite or even Bravo. For the uninitiated, this is a mustard and habanero pepper based sauce, instead of the more typical cayenne pepper and vinegar based sauce. Gives it a unique flavor, and it is very hot. There used to be 2 flavors---Inner Beauty Original and Inner Beauty Real Hot. Well, time to fix a nice burger that is guaranteed to bring out my Inner Beauty!

A spectacular sauce. After a first taste I literally ate half the bottle in one sitting, perfect taste profile to enhance a pizza or other similar indulgence. I've been trying a variety of hot sauces with great gusto in the last year and this one instantly rocketed to my top 5, will definitely be purchasing again. The pineapple inclusion is a staple of great fruity sauces but the papaya and other tropical elements they add to this give it an extra special twang. Solid spice profile as well, will not incinerate you but will leave you heavily stimulated. Anyone who has tried and enjoyed Dirty Dick's or Bigfat's 708 must try this one as well. In particular, where Dirty Dick's is more of a rich red sauce, this is the mustardy side of that coin. Strongly, strongly endorse this one!

This was a popular sauce many years ago and the original manufacturers stopped making it. It originally came from Chris Schlesinger's East Coast Grill and I believe they sold a version made by them. It disappeared for a few years and came back from a different distributer, a bit less hot but still tasty. I believe this is the third iteration and each time it has changed just a bit. However the same mustardy, citrusy taste with mango sweetness and scotch bonnet heat is still present. This is not nearly as hot as the original but is just as tasty and I would think it appeals to a wider audience without the previous blistering heat. I don't know how the heat varies between batches as all peppers have a good bit of variation in the level of heat.

I have reviewed many hot sauces and this one is pretty good. It's got a fair amount of heat. The flavor is like very spicy tikka masala, literally. And while i like that dish, this hot sauce has such a strong flavor (not heat, but taste of other ingredients) that you can not use this sauce sparingly without making your entire dish taste like tikka masala. If you are in the mood for that flavor, you will LOVE this sauce. Some spice, good texture, some tropical and Indian flavors. This hot sauce is a one-trick pony, tho.

I had used Inner Beauty for years and then suddenly it could not be found. I became aware of a very similar sauce called Rasta Fire Hot, Hot, Hot Sauce, which also uses mustard and fruit juices and is excellent. Then when searching online, I found that Inner Beauty was being made by a company in Maine, which seemed a surprising place to find hot sauce being mad, but it's fine with me. Inner Beauty is better as the flavors are brighter and more lively and there is just a bit more heat. It's also a bit more expensive but worth it.

I encountered Inner Beauty Hot Sauce in the 1990s at Cambridge, MA's famed East Coast Grill, and was hooked. It's my very favorite hot sauce, ahead of the perhaps six other brands my once-extensive hot sauce collection has ultimately been winnowed down to. But then it went out of production. There was a recipe for it in one of the East Coast Grill's cookbooks and I made up a batch, but it didn't taste the same as the original. I'm ecstatic to see Inner Beauty back again, and IT'S THE REAL THING. Tastes exactly as I remember it. Give it a try--you'll be wondering how you ever got along without it.

This is my second bottle of Inner Beauty. The first bottle came to me via Secret Santa at work and we went through it pretty quickly. If you fancy a tropical mustard hot sauce this is your buy. It tastes great on chicken, fish, beef, sausage and eggs. This stuff adds so much flavor and is actually saving me money because I can make a sandwich with two pieces of bread, one slice of cheese, deli turkey or deli ham and some Inner Beauty. Now I'm not the type of guy that adds sauces to steak but I gave it a shot and this stuff was excellent with steak. If your wondering I used Montreal Steak seasoning and grilled the meat. If you pour a little heavy handed the heat can build up pretty quick but it's not going to ruin your taste buds if you go too far. 10/10 Will buy another bottle.