J S.
Yelp
Someone told me Kozlik's was the best mustard in the world, so I did pick up a couple of bottles, and someone gifted me another (descriptions from Kozlik's website):
SWEET & SMOKEY: Sweet and smoky with a bite. This mustard is made with honey, hickory and garlic to give you that perfect bbq taste. 3/5 Heat Factor
~VERY smokey, mildly sweet, some garlic, not very spicy mustard. Interesting, but I'd have to think about what to do with this much smokey flavor. Probably something to cook with. Really makes me think of smoked ham. In fact, it almost tastes like smoked ham!
TRIPLE CRUNCH: Taste and texture come together in this blend of three different types of whole mustard seed, Canadian whisky and honey. Great as a rub on pork roasts, served with foie gras as well as raw oysters. 1/5 Heat Factor
~Beautiful to look at, and has a lovely fresh crunch, but extremely mild with minimal mustard flavor, a bit of vinegar, slightly sweet, can't really detect any whiskey flavor. Not really a mustard, more pickled mustard seeds. Might make a nice garnish on something like canapés, but the mild flavor would be overwhelmed in many situations.
GERMAN: A grainy mustard made with apple cider vinegar. This is the perfect mustard to pair with your bratwurst and sauerkraut. 3/5 Heat Factor
~Now we are talking! A creamy less than medium strong mustard, still with some crunchy texture. I put some on a Costco all-beef hotdog. This would be excellent in a pastrami sandwich.
The company makes more than 30 mustards. I don't know if these three are representative, but they are all on the milder side (not sinus clearing!). Of these three, I'd buy the German again. The other two are hard to figure out what to do with.
While we are on the subject, my personal votes for the greatest mustards in the world are:
1) Maille (multiple varieties), hand-poured at Boutique Maille in Place de la Madeleine, Paris. Note, everyone agrees the mustards you can buy from Maille online in the US or at the stores in NYC or London are NOT the same recipe you get in Paris or Dijon. And, as far as the Maille you can buy in grocery stores, that stuff is mass-produced in Canada and is a pale shadow of the real thing, so don't go there.
2) Schwerter Adrian from Germany. Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge MA, one of the best cheese shops in the US, is the only place you can buy this mustard outside of German (they also sell it online). So good, I can eat it by the spoon. They make other flavors, but the Adrian is the one you have to try.
3) Edmund Fallot, from Beaune France. Particularly the tarragon flavor. More widely available, but about as classic as you can get.