Create Your Own Reserve - Blair's Death Sauce iPhone-iPad App
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ShareA few days prior to me losing access to the internet, my good friend Vic Clinco tipped me off about the new Death Sauce iPhone/iPad App from Blair's Sauces and Snacks. It's been a long, long weekend without me being to get online without my phone, and now I can finally write about it! Well, instead of me expounding on the topic, I'll just reply on Vic's eloquently written review of the app, which was also posted earlier this weekend on Peppers and More...
The app is kinda basic right now, Blair says it's the version 1.0 and they are already working on the next version and we can expect a whole lot more with it's update. I'm pretty excited. So what is it you ask... It's a Blair's Reserve collector's dream come true in a phone app. Have you ever longed for a custom, personalized reserve bottle from the man?? Well now you can do it!! I'm going to take you on a tour of app, for those of you with an iPhone or iPad, feel free to follow along. And for those that don't, hopefully this will give you a good feel of what is it. I do know also that they are in the works on an Android app now and it shouldn't be to long before you get get the app there as well.
The app opens up with a cool intro with music and everything, they went all out on this thing. It then brings you to this "Create Reserve" screen. The graphics are to cool, the skeleton kinda shivers in the moving flames, it's pretty neat.
Next Blair throws out the challenge, lol!! Are ya sure you want to do this?? If you want to "Feel Alive" you must tap the box to proceed, enter at your own risk.
From here you get to choose your bottle, there are 10 bottle shapes/sizes for you to choose from and they range in price. The pricing begins $150.00 and tops out at $2,000.00. You can tap on each bottle to get a description including it's dimensions.
The Mac Daddy bottle is called the Baccarat Crystal Firestorm. Its 11 1/2 inches tall and holds 800ml, and we pretty much have to take Blair's word on how "Absolutely Spectacular" it is. The entire app is animation, so the pic of the bottle is a cartoon bottle. For the price and knowing what detail and pain staking care Blair takes on each and every Reserve, there is a point where I feel the "How Man, what am I going to get!!" reaction takes over.
Our next step in this creative journey is choosing your sauce, your weapon of choice as they say. In this section you have the option of selecting from 5 either sauces or powder or crystals. Blair starts off with something he's calling "Blair's Homemade Brew". It's a "Unique" Death blend with more of these unique blends to come. To the other end of the spectrum, you get your Reserve withe 16 Million pure capsaicin crystals, the hottest of the hot!!
Okay, now to picking your wax resin color, Blair gives you 4 choices in this round. Blue, Gold, Red, or Yellow, its up to you on which color gets to ooze around the stem of your bottle. It will be a background base color for the next few steps in the building of your perfect bottle.
After the wax comes the Blair's signature Skull Charm!! You've got 3 choices on this page as well. You can go old school and stay with the traditional skull or choose between the Platinum or Gold skulls, they both look cool and add a bling to the bottle. The later 2 choices do come with an additional charge but well worth the investment if you're going to do it and do it right in my opinion.
Onto to the finishing touches of your custom Reserve, the wax drizzle. Blair gives you 2 different and sepaerate drizzle colors to choose, each time you get 6 color options to choose from. You can really get creative here and mix & match some cool color combinations. Again, this is your baby, and it's going to look just the way you want it to.
The next section is naming your Reserve and adding a personalized message to it. Every Reserve has Blair's personal signature and this app takes the next step in really setting it apart from anything thing else. You can add up to 95 characters of info into the message section giving you I think a ton of stuff for Blair to work with, let your imagination take over.
From here you name and save your info, this is where you make the determination on whether to go forward and buy of if it was just fun to play around and create. You can save your creations, maybe go back and change colors and skulls, or just holding on to the bottle details till ya think up the cool message you want to attach. The app places your creations on "Your" Wall of Flame. If you want to proceed and buy, it gives you the option. If you want to share your newly created bottle you can share it on FaceBook, tweet it, or send it via email.
Wild... And a Blair's Collector's ultimate prize. I'm blown away at the concept and wish Blair and his team much success with this. I am also excited to see the direction it grows in, what cool new features come up, and how the app with grow and form to the feedback Blair gets from it. Personilaztion on high end sauces, Hmmm... What will they come up with next!!??!!
- Vic Clinco
Download Link
iPhone/iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blairs-death-sauce/id489693467?mt=8&uo=4
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