The third and final bottle from the Gindo’s 2024 Ghost of Christmas three pack, Ghost of Christmas Future was designed to “embrace the future of heat”. Like Ghost of Christmas Past and Ghost of Christmas Present this is a unique limited edition sauce that will exist only for this single release. This is the 10th…
The second bottle from the 2024 Gindo’s Ghost of Christmas trio, Ghost of Christmas Present is described by the company as “a love letter to the bold flavors of today’s hot sauces”. Featuring a range of red heirloom and super hot varietals of peppers (as opposed to the peach and yellow varieties featured in the…
For the past ten years Gindo’s has been releasing special limited edition holiday hot sauces under the Ghost of Christmas series. Each year the sauces are different but embody tradition, current trends, and future looking flavors with the Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, and Ghost of Christmas Future sauces respectively. While this…
While I generally don’t go for fruit-forward hot sauces, I do enjoy cranberries quite a bit, and they’re not the most common fruit or berry to be found in hot sauces. So far the sauces I’ve tried from Gindo’s have all been excellent, so when Thanksgiving rolled around I decided it was the perfect opportunity…
After enjoying my first bottle of Gindo’s sauce so much I was eager to try another. This is another one of their collaboration sauces with a local business – in this case Frankie’s Deli and Italian Meat Market. Having grown up in the cultural orbit of Philadelphia I love a good Italian deli. The Chicagoland…
Gindo’s is one of the brands of sauces I’d been wanting to try for a while. They seem to have some very dedicated and vocal fans in the greater Chicago area where they’re based, and I appreciate that they have both a steady lineup of “always available” sauces as well as a rotating case of…
Torchbearer is a saucemaker I love not just for the creativity of their sauces, but for the creativity of their bottle art. The Rapture, being the company’s hottest sauce, presents with label art that warns of its painful nature along with the forward presence of the Scorpion Peppers within. Torchbearer is also interesting in that…