The Last Dab: Apollo | Hot Ones Hot Sauce
The Last Dab: Apollo is the Hot Ones finale sauce built around the Apollo pepper Smokin' Ed Currie's follow-up to Pepper X, developed at Puckerbutt Pepper Company in South Carolina. Where Pepper X delivers a deep, full-body burn, the Apollo pepper brings a sharper, more immediate intensity with a distinctive tropical edge before the heat fully detonates.
The Hot Ones Finale Tradition
Every season of Hot Ones ends with The Last Dab. Ten sauces, escalating heat, and then this. The tradition is that guests dab a little extra on their final wing and that extra dab is what separates the people who made it through from the people who made internet history by not making it through.
The Apollo edition was introduced as one of the most extreme iterations of the Last Dab range. Ed Currie has described the Apollo pepper as hitting harder and faster than Pepper X, making this the bottle that has produced some of the most memorable Hot Ones moments in recent seasons.
What It Actually Tastes Like
The Apollo pepper has a brighter, almost citrus-forward character before the burn sets in. There's genuine flavour in the first two seconds then your body catches up with what you've done. The heat is intense, immediate, and long-lasting. Not a sauce for everyday use. Absolutely a sauce for proving a point.
Also in The Last Dab Range
- The Last Dab: Xperience Pepper X in its purest form at 2,693,000 SHU
- The Last Dab XXX three distinct Pepper X strains combined
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148ml | Made by Hot Ones / Heatonist