St. Elmo Cocktail Sauce, Extra Spicy Seafood Sauce and Cocktail Sauce for Shrimp, World Famous 8 Fl Oz (2 Pack)

This is a sauce that is very hot and very good to my taste. You really need to like hot for this product.

For those of you who downgrade it for its intensity ... a little education is in order. St Elmo's is a steak house in Indianapolis which is famous for this shrimp cocktail ... the entire purpose is to be mind-numbingly intense ... an experience that will give you tingles in parts of your brain that you had no clue were there ... clearly you will believe that you will *never* have to invest in sinus medicine for as long as you live. In this restaurant, if you take a bite and NOT think your ears are on fire ... you might reasonably demand your money back : THAT'S THE POINT!!!I have been trying ever since to come up with something to try to recreate that intensity at home : heat and flavor ... and could not do it. When a friend brought me a bottle ... I was sorely disappointed - for whatever reason that bottle had next to nothing intensity (I didn't check the expiration date). When I saw it on Amazon ... I figured what the heck ... maybe the one he brought was bad ... and I am glad that I did!!!The bottled stuff is not necessarily as intense as the stuff at the restaurant ... but it is BY FAR the best rendition of shrimp cocktail I have had SINCE the restaurant. When I got it ... I hedged my bet and bought a jar of Atomic Horseradish as well ... and when I added a bit of that to the St Elmo's, I dare say that I got about as close to the restaurant flavor as I could remember. The bottle by itself is the bomb ... adding the Atomic made it ... well, you get it!!! :-DAppended Mar2019 - Please be aware as I alluded to above, the intensity does drop off over time. I ended up buying a case and even after splitting with friends and giving some away, it took several months to use it up. The intensity drops off even in bottles that are not opened (I refrigerated all of them). It is still the best cocktail sauce flavor even after the intensity goes away, but if you are looking for that impact, its gotta be fresh.

St. Elmo's is my favorite restaurant and this cocktail sauce is for those of us who love it hot. I add it to bean soup (at my waiters suggestion) and it changes the whole dish. LOVE THIS SAUCE!

Tastes just like at the restaurant in Indianapolis

I stumbled upon this cocktail sauce a couple years ago, I order every month since then. Flavor is perfect and a very sicey kick which is essential to a great cocktail sauce! You don't need to use much to get that kick! My wife prefers to add a little ketchup to it to tame it down. I love it right out of the botel!

St Elmo "wow" this sauce is amazingly good

This coctail sauce blew me away with the taste, but the spicy closed my throat. Almost had to call hit the medic tag...ha ha. seriously, it is so hot and spicy that I had to gulp water in between dips. Made me a little upset I couldn't eat as much as I wanted because it was too hot for me. Little dips and big water gulps. Taste is amazing, though. I hope I can build my tolerance for all things hot....

I'm originally from Indiana and have had the pleasure of dining at St Elmo's in Indy . The cocktail sauce is legendary in the Midwest . Its spicy hot due to the quality horseradish used heavily in the mix . Since I have had this sauce before I knew what to expect. So I was worried that being bottled and shipped would take some of the edge off. The bottled version did not disappoint. The first bite almost got me . Best horseradish cocktail sauce I have ever had. It will ruin you . After having this you don't want anybody else's watery, sweet, ketchup mix with a mild hint of horseradish touching your shrimp - its that good. Approach with caution though. Fresh out of a newly opened bottle is when it is the strongest and it will hurt you (it calms down ,with age, after being opened). It can light up your nasal passages and make you wish your head would explode just to make it stop. However, as soon as you recover your going back for more - just a little more cautiously and with a little more respect :)