Product Description

Honey BBQ Ghost Wings hot sauce by Red Ghost is a complex sauce that has a fairly mild heat. Made with the jolokia pepper, or “ghost pepper” as it is sometimes called, this wing sauce is a perfect choice when you want the flavor of jolokias, but not the colon spasm that comes with them!

I really love it when a sauce maker knows how to combine many ingredients and still come up with a coherent, recognizable flavor. Check out the ingredients: tomato paste, vinegar, honey, molasses, natural smoke flavor, pineapple juice concentrate, habanero peppers, jolokia peppers, garlic powder, allspice, black pepper, cloves, cinnamon. Yep, all of this stuff comes in this one formulation. Unless you’ve tried Honey BBQ Ghost Wings sauce in the past, you probably haven’t tasted this flavor combination before. But let me tell you, Red Ghost really knows how to rock a sauce.

Plus, Honey BBQ Ghost Wings has one of those labels that a collector, whether a long term chili head or one who is just getting started, can’t live without. It’s ghostly and fun at the same time. A skeleton head in the shape of a hot pepper? Definitely one of my favorites.

For the uninitiated, it’s worth noting that there is a difference between true barbecue sauce and buffalo wing sauce. Although you would never use wing sauce on other meats, you can certainly use barbecue sauce on wings. While the word “wings” is in this product’s name, so is barbecue (or BBQ), so this is a sauce that can be used on many things, including wings. If you do decide to use this sauce for wings, I prefer this one as a dip rather than a coating.

If you’ve always wanted to try a jolokia pepper sauce but were afraid of the pain that would ensue once you consumed it, Red Ghost’s Honey BBQ Ghost Wings hot sauce is a good one to get your toes wet with. The heat is nicely balanced by the sweetness, and a host of spices give it a depth that other sauces lack. Nice!