Peppers matter. Tabasco wouldn’t be the juggernaut they are today if it weren’t for the McIlhenny family’s dedication to cultivating their high quality peppers in the special soil of Avery Island from the beginning. Huy Fong learned an expensive lesson when they parted with their long-term pepper supplier, Underwood Ranch, with most enthusiasts noting that…
I picked this up as part of a box set of Pain is Good sauces on clearance sale on the Spicin Foods website a bit ago. This was the sauce that made me decide to go for the box set, as while I’ve seen jars of harissa for sale on the grocery store shelves, I’d…
Bravado Spice Co is a craft hot sauce company out of Texas, founded in 2012 that’s grown to have a national presence with their products available in many specialty stores and some grocery store chains. One interesting tidbit is that apparently one of the company founders was on Masterchef Season 4. They have a wide…
Having been very impressed with the previous Butterfly Bakery of Vermont beer collaboration sauces that I’ve tried I ordered this sauce which they create for and which is sold exclusively by the Alchemist Brewery, one of their major beer sauce partners. With a history dating back over 20 years as a brewpub and over 13…
Butterfly Bakery of Vermont makes a number of beer collaboration hot sauces. It’s a style I’m particularly fond of as there’s a natural affinity between the flavors of beer and those of spicy food, so much that they’re commonly consumed together in cultures throughout the world. This sauce is unique in the Butterfly Bakery of…
I’ve tried a lot of different hot sauces. Most of them I have enjoyed, and some have stood out as being great. An even smaller number have reached that level of near perfection where I crave them and keep bottles of them on hand, unable to resist the urge to pop one open on occasion…