Food Australia

I just like the taste of beerenberg. It's a bit thicker than all the others. Reminds me of homemade tomato sauce. All the others that are in squeezy bottles are fine to use, they kind of taste the same to me, but if I'm gonna have the odd occasional sauce on pastry I'm gonna choose premium.

I don't know why it's rated #22. Maybe because it's in a glass bottle or it's more expensive than the others. My second choice is whatever is the cheapest because like I said they all taste the same to me.

My advice is to try Community co but if you can, give beerenberg a try too.

I only know about beerenberg because when I was in Adelaide that's what was served to me in a Cafe so when I saw it in the supermarket I knew it was good. Slowly I've been trying all their products and there's not one that has let me down.

Beerenberg is a lot thicker than the average tomato sauce, with a more varied texture in the mouth. It also has some additional spices and ingredients like apple and onion which give it a more complex flavour. There is also a "hot" variant with a small amount of chilli that is even better again. Finally, they are one of a few manufacturers that use fermented vinegar instead of acetic acid and/or citric acid which does change the flavour slightly. Another manufacturer to use this traditional method is Ozesauce, who I also recommend. However, Ozesauce is closer in flavour and texture to any other tomato sauce you've had, whereas Beerenberg really stands out as being quite unique (hence why it has so many fans).

Having said all that, at the moment I have a bottle of Rosella at home since it was on a good sale last time I was buying tomato sauce. It's fine. Honestly I think there is not actually much difference between any of the thinner tomato sauces, they don't vary anywhere near as much as other sauces like sweet chilli or BBQ which can be awful if you get the wrong one.