Vermont is something of an unexpected hot sauce hot spot. Known in most of the country for Bernie Sanders, Phish, and maple syrup, hot sauce isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you consider our nation’s 2nd-least populous state. Lurking beneath those idyllic snow covered hills and quaint villages smelling of woodsmoke and…
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…
This is another unique single-varietal limited release sauce from Butterfly Bakery of Vermont. This features the Trinidad Perfume pepper, a variant of the Trinidad Scorpion pepper that has virtually no heat, but still retains the floral and fruity flavor associated with the Trinidad Scorpion. According to BBoVT these peppers naturally start to become spicier through…
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…
Most peppers come from a single species. Capsicum Annuum gives us bell peppers, jalapenos, and cayenne peppers for example, while Capsicum Chinense gives us habanero, Carolina reaper, and the Trinidad scorpion pepper. Ghost Peppers are unique in that they’re an interspecies hybrid of Capsicum Chinense as well as Capsicum Frutescens, a pepper species that includes…
When is a hot sauce not a hot sauce? This sauce comes from a company that makes a tremendous variety of hot sauces, and it comes in a the same 5 oz bottle that hot sauces nearly always come in, and even has a label just like their hot sauces, however this sauce has no…
The Montreal Canadiens are nicknamed the Habs due to a century-plus old miscommunication with a sports reporter about the meaning of the ‘H’ on their logo. Habs in the case of this sauce is short for Habaneros. Due to the proximity of Montreal to Vermont however, I feel there is a little bit of an…
This sauce holds a special place in my heart. Not only is it the first sauce I ever tasted from Butterfly Bakery of Vermont, it’s one of the first craft hot sauces of any makers that I purchased myself. I love mustard, I love beer, and I love hot sauce. This sauce is a perfect…