Baron West Indian Hot Sauce (397ml)

If you love hot sauce and you are looking for something with a slight twist, this sauce is amazing! Its made locally in St. Lucia and gets it color from pineapples, but does not have a sweet taste. It is so very, very good on eggs, and much more!! I found this when I visited the island and now I order it from home. Try it. You won't be disappointed.

Great product. Spicey but also has a depth of flavor.

Baron's makes the BEST HOT HOT HOT Habanero sauce in my opinion. I discovered it on St Lucia and fell in love. At first just one drop is positively NUCLEAR, then it grows on you. Since capsaicin is a neurotoxin, you develop a tolerance and need more to get the same bang. This is a common phenomenon. I brought back several bottles and went through them, then needed to find another source, not having travel plans to return to St Lucia. It was only then that I discovered that this is actually a Hot Mustard Sauce. It was so hot and flavorful I just didn't realize it was mustard-based! And I don't care for mustard!!! After buying a case of bottles from the local ethnic food $tore, once I went through them I thought of searching the internet. Who knew there were larger bottles??? This purchase was ideal. A large bottle (three times as large) for the same price as a smaller one, it came quickly, was fresh and had an expiration date three years hence. I will go through one bottle in about two months! I cannot recommend this higher for anyone who likes his sauce HOT, flavorful, and yes, slightly mustardy.

I first tried Baron's West Indian Hot Sauce on my honeymoon in St. Lucia. It added so much to my dining pleasure that I brought back a few bottles in my suitcase. The scotch bonnet is a type of habenero. What is unique about it is that it has a very fruity flavor along with the heat, and the mustard adds complexity. The combination of fruit, heat, and spice is truly extraordinary. I like it on fish, chicken, burgers, steaks, turkey sandwiches, egg sandwiches, french fries, and fruit, yes! Fruit! If you want to completely blow your mind, try it on a wedge of drippy ripe mango. It it is dynomite with omlettes and any egg dish at breakfast, no better way to start the day. Just be careful who and where you kiss after eating this hot sauce. I have also tried Glady's of St. Thomas, which is also excellent, I am a big fan. Compared to Glady's I found that Baron's is more fruity, more consistant, and keeps better over long periods.

See my update below. I didn't like Baron West from the outset. Initially thought that it was a bad bottle. But retasted it; not bad but not good, either. I think that this hot sauce suffers more from omissions, rather than bad flavors. It has heat, salt, some bland acidity, but little in the way of sweetness. It doesn't strike me as having any real character. By that I mean it has none of the acidic bite and spices of Pickapeppa red hot sauce (the scarce one, not to be confused with the A-1 style Pickapeppa), nor the sweetness, mustard or fruit of other Caribbean-style sauces like home-made Inner Beauty (you can find recipes online; possibly the best hot sauce ever made, and as Caribbean as they get). If I had to try to describe Baron West to someone who has never tried it I would have a hard time drawing similarities to other sauces. It has none of the smokiness or umami of Cholula or La Valentina, none of the garlicky character of Sriracha, none of the savory acidity of Tabasco or Frank's. Aside from the heat, about the only other word that I can think of is "bland." There are just so many other good hot sauces, including ones that you can make at home for a couple of dollars; why bother? Update 1-4-2015: I'm feeling a bit chastened after trying this sauce again. For all of my negative comments about it, it has turned out to be pretty good. In fact, it captures the fruit flavors like few Habanero sauces do. Not flashy or overpowering, this is amazingly good for a factory made sauce. With respect to the concerns about the coloring agent that Baron adds to this sauce: yes, it would be nice if all sauces were all natural. But you would miss out on a lot of good ones if you were that picky. Furthermore, there is no study proving that this dye has any harmful or even undesirable effects.

Experienced this sauce in St Lucia a week ago & we LOVED it, so excited to see it on Amazon !!!!

This hot sauce has flavor to it unlike other that just.

Ordered this while looking for replacement for my Bajan sauce I brought from Barbados. This one is thick and good tasting, but I was horrified to find it contains synthetic chemicals such as E102 (that according to manufacturer "May Have an Adverse Effect on the Activity and Attention in Children"), E385 and E211. Well, I am not going to put a chemical in my mouth regardless how good it tastes, especially since there are other brands that does not use these. Why not using natural turmeric instead of E102 and something natural as preservative?!? It is also rather expensive. Going to try Aunt May's next.