Looking for sauces that are widely available in the US. Like most people I know about Texas Pete and Tabasco and Sriracha .
I’m fond of Valentina, hot and regular, and Bufalo [sic] Chipotle.
Valentina for authentic Mexican.
Crystal for authentic Louisiana.
Pickapeppa for Jamaica, mon.
Pickapeppa is a great sauce, but it is not a hot sauce.
In addition to the above, I like: Cholula Original. Mexican style hot sauce with flavor, not melt-your-face spicy. Tapatio is very good, too, if you’re going in this direction. Tapatio is also worth checking out if you’re going in this direction.
For something hotter, the El Yucateco habanero sauces are worth trying. There’s a number of flavors out there, but the basics are the red and the green. The Caribbean is worth it if you want something a little more adulterated with spices, but the basic red and green (and the extra hot Kutbil-ik) really bring home the straight-up habanero flavor, if you’re into it. Melinda’s also makes nice habanero sauces.
If you like a bit of sweetness in your hot sauces, there’s Tiger Sauce, which to me is like a Lousiana-style cayenne or tabasco sauce cut with Worcestershire and a good bit of sugar to round off the flavor. It’s not necessarily my favorite, since I’m not a big fan of sweetness in my hot sauces, but it’s something you need to try to decide for yourself.
Pickapeppa (as mentioned above) is like a spicy version of A1 or HP (brown) sauce. If you like this style of sauce, you might want to try Salsa Lizano, if you can find it, which is one of the standard sauces of Costa Rica. It’s
I also really like the Nando’s per-peri sauces. They all tend to be hot sauces with a citrus/lemon and herb/spice bite to them (oregano, coriander, cumin.) One of my favorites for chicken.
If you like it smoky, Tabasco Chipotle sauce is quite yummy.
We keep three in the house:
- Huy Fong Sriracha
- El Yucoteco Green - wonderfully hot and flavorful
- Cholula original because my daughter loves it.
Nothing else needed.
I really enjoy the full line of Haunted Hot Sauces
http://halloweenhotsauce.com/
The “Flesh Feast” series was the best but is no longer available.
Another great series is the “ass” series - Ass in a Tub, Ass in Space, Ass Over the Fence.
Ass in a Tub is the biggest seller but the others can help fill out a collection and taste profile range quite nicely.
<hangs head> I hate to admit how many different sauces I keep around. It isn’t normal. 
I think the best blend of spice and heat is Marie Sharp’s
Excellent on popcorn and potato chips, and okay with eggs, although I prefer your next entry:
Red is by far my go-to sauce. It’s too hot for casual popcorn and potato chip eating, but it’s the perfect amount of spiciness for just about everything else.
One part butter, three parts El Yucateco makes awesome sauce for oven-bake Buffalo wings. They will be hot.
I’ll vouch for Tabasco. A lot of aficionados scoff, but its vinegary taste and (relatively) low spiciness are the perfect compliment for eggs and most traditional American picnic foods (e.g., pasta or potato salad, etc.). In Mexico, lots of Mexicans at catered events complain that often the only available sauce is Tabasco. It’s regarded as a fancy imported product there by caterers, but apparently not by consumers.
I’m with you on Tabasco. It’s vinegary, but that’s why I love it. It’s a perfect compliment to fatty foods. Love the acidic bite of that stuff. Crystal is good, too, but I prefer Tabasco. (And allegiances seem to be strong in whether you prefer Crystal or Tabasco.)
Yep. Anything Tabasco can do Crystal does better.
Except come in mini-bottles.
You can also add Louisiana Hot Sauce into the fray. Worth checking out all three and seeing what they do for you. I use all three, but the Tabasco is the first to go, followed by the Louisiana, followed by the Crystal. They have different flavors and different uses (at least for me.) One can not have too many choices when it comes to hot sauce!
Front row in the pantry shows Pickapeppa, Cholula Green, Valentina, Tiger, Cholula, Texas Pete, Crystal and Louisiana. There is Sriracha in the fridge, and there are several rows of hot sauces behind the ones in the front.
I am large - I contain multitudes. 
I was recently gifted this bottle of Foo Foo Mama Choo Carolina Reaper sauce by a bar owner I know who sells and makes a bunch of hot sauces. I was pleasantly surprised at how tasty it was. It has Carolina Reaper in it, but it’s not a typical super-hots hot sauce. The heat level is quite subdued, because the reaper is cut with a bunch of red bell peppers, but you can get the flavor of the reaper itself, which is of the habanero variety. Balanced pretty well with other flavors like ginger and garlic. I’ve already gone through almost the whole bottle. It’s no hotter than the El Yucatecos, so I consider it a hot, but usable heat.
If I want want of the super-hots, the only one I’ve found that I actually enjoy is Dave’s Insanity sauce. Almost all of the capscaicin-enhanced sauces have a chemical astringency to them that I don’t enjoy, but Dave’s manages to pull it off, being a step above the habenero sauces, while still retaining a pleasant overall flavor. (And it manages to clock in at somewhere around 100K-250K Scoville, depending on the source, so it’s not too stupid hot. But it’s not really the heat that gets me with the superhots–it’s that chemicalliness, for lack of better descriptor. If you really, really want to go in that direction, Wanza’s isn’t too bad at an advertised 2M Scolville, and it does have some flavor to it, but it’s still has that tell-tale extract astringency or whatever that flavor is. Maybe it’s just me.)
I strongly recommend everyone pickup a bottle of Chicken Shack’s Sweet Heat.
It isn’t a hot sauce truly, but a great barbecue sauce with a kick. I strongly recommend it.
I put Crystal on just about everything.
When I want something a bit hotter, I use the hot sauce with the burning stick figures on the label. There’s “See Dick Burn,” “See Jane on Fire,” and “See Spot in Heat.” I don’t think there’s a difference between them; they all list the exact same ingredients. Same basic flavor as Crystal (they’re all cayenne based), but hotter.
In addition to the standard (not spicy) brown sauce, Pikapeppa makes a red sauce that is spicy and rather different. It tastes “aged” for lack of a better term.
What’s a good bottled Hawaiian hot sauce?
You know, you could just upgrade to Crystal Extra Hot.
Just sayin’. 
Just checked the second row in the pantry: Tabasco Chipotle, Tabasco Garlic, Tabasco Habanero, El Yucateco Green, El Yucateco Habanero, Bufalo, Bufalo Chipotle.
FM - The only Hawaiian hot sauce I am personally acquainted with is Noh’s. Google shows some others, but Hawaiian BBQ is more likely to be in our fridge than Hawaiian hot sauce.
Yeah, but I like the stick figures on the bottle.
Besides the Tabasco and Sriracha, I keep Dave’s Insanity Sauce, Simply Chili Select Chipotle Puree for when I want to add the smoked flavor, and Crazy Mary sauce for use with steak and seafood (it’s actually a bloody Mary mixer, but I don’t use it for that).