flavor Bourbon Hot Sauce?

[slewis]

Anyone ever tried to flavor a sauce with bourbon or any other alcohol? Ive never made a sauce but I have a bunch of habaneros and bahamian goats I can use; was wondering what pouring some bourbon in may do for the flavor. 
Thoughts?

 

[The Hot Pepper]

If you've never made a sauce before you should probably shy away from it. Or maybe not. You need to tell us more. What kind of sauce are you making? What do you plan to use it on?

 

[slewis]

Honestly, I really dont know yet what I'm going to make. That pinapple/scorpion recipe on this forum sounds amazing. Ive got habaneros, goats, jalapenos, and Im about to harvest some jolokia white longs here soon. Ive got a few different types of bourbon and was wondering what dumping some Weller in the batch would do to it; just looking for experiences. As far as what it goes on, everything... I'm running low on sauces at the moment so I've been throwing habaneros in pretty much everything that I've been cooking lately. Habanero clam sauce is my new favorite thing..

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Bourbon is going to impart the flavors of bourbon. But a lot will also get lost. Those notes are subtle. So think to yourself. Why do I like this bourbon? Oh, I get hints of vanilla, and smoke. That doesn't mean dumping bourbon in it will actually achieve that. You could use a good Madagascar vanilla and chipotle for example and get those notes and be able to control it better since they are stronger and independent. It's all in the cheffing man. Good luck!

 

[sirex]

I've made a sauce with brandy braised peaches before but never bourbon. Boss man is correct, that I lost flavor. Maybe I didn't use enough but my hindsight says that's not really the flavor profile I was looking for anyway.

 

[Edaxflamma]

I did a rum poached banana and scotch bonnet sauce that I personally love. Although to be fair, it was more of a mash/relish than it was a sauce. 
 
I'm not sure how I would feel about a super fruity pepper mix and bourbon. I feel like I would reserve the bourbon for a roasted/smoked sauce but that's just me. 
 
What else had you planned on putting in there with it?

 

[sirex]

I agree with the mash/relish aspect. Of course I didn't mill mine.

Maybe

Bourbon
Cinnamon
Raisins
And a pepper more like CGN 21500.

Just a thought.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

If doing a mash you can put the bourbon barrels chunks in it.
 
http://northwoodssmoke.com/products/Used-Bourbon-Barrel-Chunks.html

 

[salsalady]

Think about what existing sauces have bourbon. Mostly robust bbq sauces. Might work in something like a chipotle sauce, as was suggested.

Try a small batch and keep us posted.

 

[The_NorthEast_ChileMan]

Anyone ever tried to flavor a sauce with bourbon or any other alcohol? Ive never made a sauce but I have a bunch of habaneros and bahamian goats I can use; was wondering what pouring some bourbon in may do for the flavor. 
Thoughts?

 
Sorry I can't help with my own but others have posted:

Bourbon sauce
hot sauce idea
5 Sauces, Recipes, Pic of Sauces
My first sauce with peppers, peaches, and bourbon
Bourbon Cherry Ginger Choc pepper Sauce

 

[salsalady]

Sheesh, now i want to buy a bunch of bourbons for the purpose of making a sauce....


Sounds like a good tax deduction........


Oh, yeah!

 

[The_NorthEast_ChileMan]

Sheesh, now i want to buy a bunch of bourbons for the purpose of making a sauce....

 
 

 

[salsalady]

@ ^^^

 

[peppersproutfarm]

I've used rum in a scotch bonnet sauce. Flavors were overpowered by the sauce itself. Seemed like a waste IMO. As stated above Bourbons flavors are very subtle. And, with anything culinary you want to cook with something that tastes good to you. You're not going to want to buy the cheapest thing on the shelf. You buy terrible whiskey you're just putting terrible whiskey into your sauce. Do you really want to spend that kind of money making a hot sauce?