on October 30, 2008 at 4:11 pm said:

Hey Samuel glad to see you made it back in one piece. I think we gotta get Nooge to make it to a few fiery food shows, he seems like an intresting guy with many-a-story to tell.

Exactly what I was thinking! Traveling the world surfing and fishing while pimping sauce. I gotta have a few cold ones with this guy!

DK on October 30, 2008 at 2:11 pm said:

Sweet!

I’ve got none.

Maybe this weekend.

Although there is this one of me in camo.

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sam on October 30, 2008 at 2:02 pm said:

I’ve got a few hunting pics to send you as well!

Sweet!

I’ve got none.

Maybe this weekend.

DK on October 30, 2008 at 1:50 pm said:

Hello Sam!

I’ll bee sending you some money soon. Hope you have some 4 brothers in stock too.

Get it? “bee sending”? I crack myself up!

sam on October 30, 2008 at 1:46 pm said:

Woo Hoo! Thank you to all the reviewers and admin for allowing us to participate in the BOB IV. Like I said before theses are another great tool for getting your name out there. I too must try the Bee Sting now. I have seen it before, but not knowing anything about it I passed it by. Thank you for participating Nooge and welcome to TTF. I look forward to trying this and a few of your other sauces.

Hello Sam!

I’ll bee sending you some money soon. Hope you have some 4 brothers in stock too.

the nooge on October 29, 2008 at 12:09 pm said:

Gracias for all the spirited comments… a few answers & points about our sauces & condiments: I came into this biz from an adventure travel & cooking background, capturing the sense of place were I was inspired by something I ate and experienced and wanting to convey that to appreciative mouths. So here I’m saving you the stress of being shot at, chased by machete wielding drunks, near gorings in third world bull rings, dysentery from eating stuff I knew I shouldn’t, bar fights, shark, croc & sting ray encounters, malarial jungles and the occasional saving of damsels in distress… while hopefully taking you on a little trip as well. So right off the bat, I’m not out to make the hottest sauces on the planet, that’s done and they polish chrome really well. And as they say “you can’t please all the people all the time” yet as a medium size purveyor of specialty/gourmet condiments, sauces, salsa, glazes & mixers, we’ve achieved a good little niche market making quality small batch products that pays the bills or we wouldn’t still be here after 16 years. The BeeSting Honey Hab is a take on traditional sauces I ate all over Indonesia (yes while surfing & fishing my way around), yet I craft the recipes selfishly to my palate which is not particularly fond of excessive heat. We did just release our new Iguana En Fuego Ultra Hot Pepper Sauce,which is my first extract sauce yet has a great tropical flavor profile and to me a serious burn, but to serious hot heads may be only moderately hot. I have always put flavor and a semblance of authenticity in our sauces, yet this puppy is too hot for the nooge. Go figure. What I eat in mass quantities of ours is Iguana XXX, Mean Green,Gold & Smoky… BeeSting Mango-Passion & Mustard… and the SweetSting Glaze Toppings. And as we import our products from our facility in Costa Rica (beats having to go visit the factory in say Iowa 5 times a year), we do have to adhere to strict FDA labeling and ingredient guidelines. I occasionally see domestic products (hot sauces) that I know have the ingredients in improper order of predominance due to obvious notes in the flavor profile, or may skip listing an ingredient like water, and the FDA does very little (virtually none) scrutinizing of small domestic producers. Being a registered food production biz we do have to make shelf stable products that resist spoilage, oxidation, separation and other fun things. And when I test a new product, the prototype bottles sit in a dark room temp cupboard and on a shelf in the sun for at least 2 years, sometimes 3 depending on the ingredients to see how they behave. Did it turn black or worse green? Did it separate or fester? Does it taste like it did when it was bottled? We strive for 3 year shelf life unopened and have this almost across the line. And only about 25% of our products need the minute amount of sodium benzoate to stabilize them, primarily because we sell so much to foodservice and they want to be able to leave it on their tables unrefrigerated and sometimes in the sun. BUT the rest are all natural. BTW, sodium benzoate is a naturally occuring soluable salt that is found in higher quantities in higher levels in many fruits and
vegetables, notably cranberries, lingonberries, plums and prunes, among many others. In fact, even organically grown cranberries, plums or prunes can contain levels of sodium benzoate that exceed the legal limit imposed by the FDA on U.S. food manufacturers! This all adds up to having to take what I create in a product in the test kitchen and make it commercially viable, cost effective and something you may not realize but be able to source the ingredient in Costa Rica. We have difficulty in getting certain herbs & spices, decent affordable olive oils, horseradish, curry spice ingredients and certain peppers. The flip side is that the quality of the ingredients we do source in Costa Rica, Mexico, Chile and Peru is incredible, especially our tropical fruits and peppers for obvious reasons like climate and rich volcanic soils.

So there you have it… thanks for listening and eat mo’ sauce.

the nooge on October 29, 2008 at 2:02 pm said:

to comment on the BeeSting Mango-Passion and Mustard…

The BeeSting Mango-Passion Pepper Sauce is a tropical fruit and spice based sauce with an habanero kick. It’s not going to be considered hot by this crowd, it’s 2.25% habanero content just heats it up a bit, really just enhancing the other base ingredients. It’s great on ice cream, sorbets, muffins, pork tenderloin, shrimp on the barbie, yard bird, etc…

The BeeSting Rainforest Honey Mustard is a papaya based creamy soft mustard with again just a kick of habanero to make it interesting but not burn anyone up. Anyone can make a scorcher hot sauce or mustard but in these instances we’re out to make these pleasant tropical products with high utility. The papaya base in the mustard really makes it shine in the kitchen, slather it on a rack of lamb or pork tenderloin and then let it sit in the fridge for 2 days to let the papaya tenderize the meat like magic. Then roll the puppy in italian bread crumbs mixed w/ fresh rosemary and broil or grill. The pourable 5oz. is basically same as the 9oz. jar but a bit thinner for pourablility. Buen Provecho y Pura vida!

Ok, I’m sold on Bee Sting! Gotta try ths stuff for sure.

I’ve got a ton of old Iguana sauces in my collection, but have never tried the sauce. Looking forward to tryin’ those as well.

Welcome to TTF Nooge!

The BeeSting Mango-Passion Pepper Sauce is a tropical fruit and spice based sauce with an habanero kick. It’s not going to be considered hot by this crowd, it’s 2.25% habanero content just heats it up a bit, really just enhancing the other base ingredients. It’s great on ice cream, sorbets, muffins, pork tenderloin, shrimp on the barbie, yard bird, etc…

The BeeSting Rainforest Honey Mustard is a papaya based creamy soft mustard with again just a kick of habanero to make it interesting but not burn anyone up. Anyone can make a scorcher hot sauce or mustard but in these instances we’re out to make these pleasant tropical products with high utility. The papaya base in the mustard really makes it shine in the kitchen, slather it on a rack of lamb or pork tenderloin and then let it sit in the fridge for 2 days to let the papaya tenderize the meat like magic. Then roll the puppy in italian bread crumbs mixed w/ fresh rosemary and broil or grill. The pourable 5oz. is basically same as the 9oz. jar but a bit thinner for pourablility. Buen Provecho y Pura vida!

So there you have it… thanks for listening and eat mo’ sauce.

ChileHeadEd on October 28, 2008 at 7:50 pm said:

My bad I was confusing the product reviewed with the Beesting rainforest honey mustard which comes in a 5 oz. bottle and a 9 oz. jar….there is also a Mango Passion

How do they fare tastewise?

on October 28, 2008 at 12:59 pm said:

I was thinking of doing a battle of the bottles- Children of the Black Bean & Corn. I guess I need to look around a bit.

YOu can use FKS… I just won’t read it – lol

on October 27, 2008 at 6:43 pm said:

Macro…Polo?

Hey I am trying. You want a professional photographer go to seethefear.com :fu:

Thanks for the compliments the rest of ya. We have 3 Battles in progress, and more planned for the future. If you like it(sorry Huv), we will keep on doing it. If there is something you want to see, don’t want to see or have an idea feel free to express your thoughts. I am always looking to improve this review each time, and welcome your critique. Too long, too many pics, more pics, a different breakdown, whatever it is.

I will email you something I would like to do. Thanks. You also should get some Twisted Twin Salsa from the last review for JJ’s.

Lastly, I saw the Bee Sting Honey Mustard in Whole Foods the other day. Anyone ever try this?

LOL – just because I dont like doesnt mean it shouldn’t continue :fu:

I just won’t be reading them

on October 27, 2008 at 6:43 pm said:

Macro…Polo?

Hey I am trying. You want a professional photographer go to seethefear.com :fu:

Thanks for the compliments the rest of ya. We have 3 Battles in progress, and more planned for the future. If you like it(sorry Huv), we will keep on doing it. If there is something you want to see, don’t want to see or have an idea feel free to express your thoughts. I am always looking to improve this review each time, and welcome your critique. Too long, too many pics, more pics, a different breakdown, whatever it is.

I will email you something I would like to do. Thanks. You also should get some Twisted Twin Salsa from the last review for JJ’s.

Lastly, I saw the Bee Sting Honey Mustard in Whole Foods the other day. Anyone ever try this?

:nerd:, you are trying, and your efforts show. Your reviews are great, and I certainly appreciate the time and work you put into TTF! But I am still going to make fun of your photography skills, ok? :duhlol:

ChileHeadEd on October 27, 2008 at 8:33 pm said:

:nerd:, it is the same thing only packed in a 9 ounce jar (I am a half moon bay distributor)
Ed

You saying the mustard tastes the same as the hot sauce?

DK on October 27, 2008 at 3:21 pm said:

That’s the official TTF Reviewer cam. It was on sale, what can I say?

That and told me that he lost the instructions for it. Macro what?

Macro…Polo?

Ethan on October 27, 2008 at 3:00 pm said:
Great review guys! :nerd:, do you take your pictures with a greasy piece of wax paper over the lens? Or a camera phone from 2001? what’s the deal?

I’ve had Bee Sting before. Not bad stuff. I haven’t had the opportunity to try Three Brothers though. I’ll have to keep an eye out for it next time I’m at JJs.

Hey I am trying. You want a professional photographer go to seethefear.com :fu:

Thanks for the compliments the rest of ya. We have 3 Battles in progress, and more planned for the future. If you like it(sorry Huv), we will keep on doing it. If there is something you want to see, don’t want to see or have an idea feel free to express your thoughts. I am always looking to improve this review each time, and welcome your critique. Too long, too many pics, more pics, a different breakdown, whatever it is.

Bret on October 27, 2008 at 11:41 am said:

Man that was over the top. Very very nice. let me know what I can do to help more.

I will email you something I would like to do. Thanks. You also should get some Twisted Twin Salsa from the last review for JJ’s.

Lastly, I saw the Bee Sting Honey Mustard in Whole Foods the other day. Anyone ever try this?