Craft Hot Sauce Podcast
by Craft Hot Sauce
The Craft Hot Sauce podcast is a podcast for hot sauce lovers, entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in learning more about the stories and inspiration behind craft hot sauces. Brian Ruhlmann the host of the podcast started the website and blog CraftHotSauce.com in 2014 and has been interviewing hot sauce crafters from all over the world about how they got started in spicy foods, cooking and business advice, and hearing the crazy stories along the way. Best to listen to the podcast while trying out the sauces from the guests!
Episodes
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Brian from Craic Sauce on the start of the summer hot sauce season
Brian dives into what has been going on behind the scenes of Craic Sauce. Topics include an expanding growing and farmers operation, the challenges and enjoyment from farmers markets and a preview of our newest limited edition sauce that will be released next week.
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Sean of Down to Ferment on Fermented Kombucha Hot Sauces
Joining us today is a true expert in the field, an individual who has mastered the craft of fiery peppers and brewing kombucha into a symphony of flavor and heat. Sean Kirkpatrick of Down to Ferment has honed his skills, bringing his experiences from his culinary background to creating flavor...
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Sarah of Marshall's Haute Sauce - Portland, Oregon
Sarah Marshall is a born and raised Oregonian and creates an array of handmade hot sauces reflect her love for and deep connection to her home. Sarah and her husband Dirk have been making and selling spicy sauces in Portland, Oregon since 2011. On the podcast Sarah shares how she's driven by her...
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Chef Chris Schlesinger of the East Coast Grill and Inner Beauty Sauce
Chef Chris Schlesinger joins the Craft Hot Sauce podcast. Chris was born and raised in Virginia, where he first developed his love for barbecue, spicy food, and live fire cooking. Chris put Boston on the map as a chilihead destination after starting the East Coast Grill in Inman Sq in Cambridge,...
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Merrimack Black - Behind scenes of a collab hot sauce
The Merrimack Black is a limited edition hot sauce made with hand-crafted beer vinegar, roasted of wood fire ingredients, black garlic and the chocolate scorpion pepper. This black hot sauce from Craic Sauce was made in collaboration with F-Word Farm, Andre K Mills and Navigation Brewery Co in...
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Bruce from Hoots Sauce on Scottish fire roasted fermented hot sauce
Hoots Sauce Co is a Scottish hand-crafted small batch hot sauce. Bruce Clyne-Watson joins the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast and shares how his venture was born out of a passion for fire, foods and spice. He describes their first sauce, Solstice. Rwandan and British Chilis, both hot and super hots are...
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Riffing on hot sauce this summer and harvest season
Normally the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast interviews hot sauce makers all over the world. This episode is more of a riff from Brian the host about some of the things his hot sauce company Craic Sauce got up this summer. Music in this podcast is 'Baltimore' by Imam Collective. You can you follow them…
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Tim of Hot Heads Official on growing chili peppers and making spicy collabs
Tim Myers, founder of Hot Heads Official, has always loved to create. Shortly after getting into brewing craft beer at home to exercise his creativity, Tim saw the similarities between the world of craft beer and the world of craft hot sauce, and quickly began growing his own peppers. Just three...
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Debra Sandler of Bazodee on Caribbean-inspired pepper sauces
Debra Sandler is a doer. She is a perfect example of someone with high ambitions who has never forgotten her family and her roots. With over 30 years of experience in corporate America, she has now turned her focus to Bazodee, a Caribbean-inspired, natural, family-driven line of pepper sauces and...
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Trini Pepper Sauce on sharing Grandma's recipe and Trinidadian flavor
Mustafa, Mikkal, Josh and Chima from Trini Pepper Sauce join the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast. Mustafa and Mikkal are first generation Americans, with their parents and sister being born in Trinidad. On the podcast they share how on every trip to Trinidad and Tobago Mustafa and Mikkel would end up...
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Erica of Queen Majesty Hot Sauce
Erica says she was the different one. At a young age, Erica loved drawing and art and knew she wanted to end up in NYC. She arrived there for the first time when parents dropped her off for college at FIT. Erica says NYC embraces being different, and early on she found herself drawn into Jamaican...
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Poor Devil Pepper Co. on fermented hot sauce and sourcing local
Laura and Jared of Poor Devil Pepper Company join the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast and share their journey with starting their fermented hot sauce company. Topics on the podcast how they got started with fermentation, collaborating with artists, sourcing and working with local farmers, and their zero...
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Caroline Pam and Tim Wilcox on starting Kitchen Garden Farm
Tim and Caroline of Kitchen Garden Farm join the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast to share their journey starting their farm in Western Massachusetts in 2006 and creating a delicious line of hot sauces and other value-added food products. Topics on the podcast include the winter long term planning that...
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Phil on growing chili peppers with hydroponics
Phil comes on the Craft Hot Sauce Pod to share his experiences with hydroponics and growing chili peppers. Phil is a hobbyist gardener that got deep down the rabbit hole of learning more about growing chili peppers using the method of hydroponics. On the podcast Phil shares how he got started...
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David Delcourt of Seed Ranch Flavor Co on umami flavor and scaling
David Delcourt from Seed Ranch Flavor Co, joins the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast. David shares his entrepreneurial journey, starting two renewable energy based ventures before starting Seed Ranch Flavor Company in 2017 in Boulder, Colorado. Topics discussed on the podcast include what happens when…
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Paul and Tasia of Big Red's Hot Sauce on their entrepreneurial journey
Episode 34 of the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast features Paul and Tasia Ford from Big Red's Hot Sauce in Phoenix, Arizona. When asked if they play music while making hot sauce, they said "oh yeah, we’re always playing Motown music and even remixing over it!” Here’s the video to prove it:...
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David of Hab Sauce on creating unique hot sauce recipes
David van Overeem of Hab Sauce in Portland, Oregon joins the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast. Their Spicy Sweet Soy Sauce won the People's Choice World Favorite Hot Sauce award at Old Boney Mountain Hot Summer Night this year. On this episode of the podcast you'll learn about David's path from DJ to hot...
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Brian of Craic Sauce and Craft Hot Sauce on creating a hot sauce community
In this crossover episode The 495 Podcast interviews Brian from CraftHotSauce.com and Craic Sauce exploring the world of hot sauce and chili peppers.
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Paula of River City Flame on bringing Hong Kong flavors stateside
Paula Horne is the owner of River City Flame, a craft hot sauce company in Richmond, Virginia. Paula shares how her travels led her to try to emulate that perfect tasting sauce that came to love while living in Hong Kong. River City Flame is a black owned and women owned company that remains…
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Geoff of Sabarac on the science and art of hot sauce and chili fermentation
Geoff Barker, fermented hot sauce specialist and owner of Sabarac (Brisbane, Australia) joins the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast. Geoff has created a wide range of fermented hot sauces with truly unique flavors like his Firemelon (carolina Reaper and watermelon), fermented hot chocolate, and Japanese…
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Former NFL standout Reggie Kelly of KYVAN Foods on starting a CPG company after retirement
Reggie Kelly from KYVAN Foods comes on the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast. Reggie was a standout football player coming out of Aberdeen Mississippi, going on to play football at Mississippi State and then having a 13 year career in the NFL as a Tight End for the Atlanta Falcons and Cincinnati Bengals.…
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Dan of Small Axe Peppers on the relationship between community gardens and hot sauce
Dan Fitzgerald of Small Axe Peppers comes on the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast. Small Axe Peppers is a community and mission forward company that makes delicious hot sauces from working with community growers across 15 cities in America. 6 years ago they started out as the Bronx Hot Sauce donating and...
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Allan of Sacred Sauce on travel, music, media and hot sauce
On this episode of the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast, Brian speaks with Allan Price of Sacred Sauce. Allan is the owner and founder at Sacred Sauce @sacredsauce As the interviewer who also has a young hot sauce company, I enjoyed talking to Allan about the steps and feelings starting a business and...
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Josh and John of Old Bones Chili Co on creating delectable smoked habnero hot sauce
Old Bones Chill Co is a Sydney, Australia based craft hot sauce company. Josh their founder started OB Chilli Co after 12 years of experience as a chef with help from OB Chilli Co crew members John, Denise and Sam. Brian, the host of the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast, explores a variety of topics with...
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Mikey V of Mikey V's Foods on tips for cooking hot sauce
Mikey Vee from Mikey V’s Foods out of Georgetown, Texas comes onto the Craft Hot Sauce podcast. You can try Mikey V’s newest hot sauce, Sam’s Sauce on CraftHotSauce.com You can learn more about Mikey V’s Foods and Hot Sauce on their website https://www.mikeyvsfoods.com/ and you can check out…
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Greg from Inferno Farms on lessons learned as a chef and breaking Carolina Reaper record
Owner of Inferno Farms and holder of the world record for most Carolina Reaper pepper eaten in one minute, Greg Foster, comes on the craft hot sauce podcast. On the podcast Greg shares some of his earliest spicy memories, lessons learned from culinary and hot sauce mentors, and what’s going…
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Stacy of Secret Aardvark on the story behind the OG craft hot sauce
Stacy Moritz of Secret Aardvark Trading Co comes on the Craft Hot Sauce podcast. Secret Aardvark was founded in 2004 by creative and culinary genius Scott Moritz. His love of travel, surfing, making music and telling stories was matched only by his passion for discovering the flavors of the…
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Sufia from Silly Chilly Hot Sauce on leaving fashion to pursue her passion of food
Sufia Hossain the Founder of Silly Chilly Hot Sauce in Queens, New York comes on the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast. Sufia moved to New York from Bangladesh at the age of 12. She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology when she started a career working in the fashion industry. Some time into...
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Chef Nino on agriculture and partnering with rural farmers in Zimbabwe
Chef Nino is a chef, farmer, entrepreneur in Zimbabwe. Nino comes from a farming background and has founded AGRIOLA which works with rural farmers by providing them with seeds, drip kits and resources to farm. He's been working with the groups to plant chili peppers to then process and make...
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Thom of Voodoo Chile Sauces on creating a line of unforgettable hot sauces
Thom Toth of Voodoo Chile Sauces comes on the Craft Hot Sauce podcast. Thom has been making gourmet hot sauces since 2012, but his sauces are unique and different than most other craft hot sauce companies. His Porcus hot sauce is a bacon hot sauce took a long time to create and is a challenging...
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Bret and Elijah on the father and son business journey of growing Elijah's Xtreme
Elijah and Bret from Elijah's Xtreme Hot Sauce come on the Craft Hot Sauce podcast. The father and son company is located in Charlotte, North Carolina and have been making sauces commercially in 2013. I had the pleasure of meeting Elijah and Bret at the NYC Hot Sauce Expo and their Reaper Xtreme...
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Jen and Oli of Disco Hot Sauce on beats, DJing and making sauce in South East London
Disco Hot Sauce from South East London comes on the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast. Oli and Jen started making it after a late night out and now they have a kickstarter to continue growing Disco Hot Sauce. Enjoy our conversation and contribute to their kickstarter here:...
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The journey and lessons from four hot sauce companies trying to trademark their brand
Four different craft hot sauce companies had four different journeys as they approached registering a trademark for their hot sauce brand. This is a different type of episode with four different interviews talking about how to apply and register a trademark for your business, the road bumps that...
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Dave of Silagy Sauce on starting a fire roasted hot sauce company with his sons
Silagy Sauce is makes delicious hot sauces in Vancouver, Washington. They focus on having fresh ingredients and smoke and roast their peppers to make super flavorful sauces. Dave joins the Craft Hot Sauce podcast to talk about how they got started in 2017 and how his sons started helping him out....
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President Dr. Ali Houshmand of Rowan University on making hot sauce for student scholarships
Dr. Ali Houshmand is the President of Rowan University and creator of Houshmand's Hazardous Hot Sauce. All proceeds from the hot sauce go towards an emergency scholarship fund for Rowan University students. Dr. Houshmand cares deeply about the success of students across the world, and his passion...
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Matt and Cath of Hoss Soss on Costa Rican inspired flavors and the Oregon sauce community
Catharine and Matt from Hoss Soss come on Episode 14 of the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast. The journey started in Costa Rica, but they are now located and operating in Salem, Oregon. You can find our more about them on their website https://www.hosssoss.com/ and follow them on Instragram, Twitter and...
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Jay of Burns & McCoy on making the leap to full time sauce making and creating super hot hot sauces
Jay Turner from Burns and McCoy comes on the Craft Hot Sauce podcast. Burns and McCoy is an award winning hot sauce company out of Colorado with a wide-range of hot sauces. On the podcast we explore how Jay got into making hot sauce, what lead him to take jump into going all in creating Burns and...
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Smokin' Ed Currie of Puckerbutt Pepper Company on creating the world's hottest pepper
Smokin' Ed Currie from PuckerButt Pepper Company comes on the Craft Hot Sauce podcast. Ed Currie is the creator of the Carolina Reaper pepper and grows the hottest peppers in the world. He held the Guinness World Record for the hottest pepper ever grown and will be the first person to have the...
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Gene of Karma Sauce on getting their hot sauce on Hot Ones and scaling
Gene from Karma Sauce comes on the Craft Hot Sauce podcast. Karma Sauce is located in Rochester, NY and Gene grows all his own peppers. Gene talks about what happens to your business when your sauce is featured on Hot Ones, how he got started making hot sauce, and some more stories and insight...
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Chris from Char Man Brand on designing sick labels and cranking out flavorful hot sauces
Chris from Char Man Bran comes on the Craft Hot Sauce podcast. After following him for years, it was great to learn more behind the story of Char Man Brand and finally talk to him. He'll be at the 2018 NYC Hot Sauce expo, but you can check out his site and find him on social here: Website -...
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Steve Seabury of High River Sauces Presents on putting on the biggest and best hot sauce events
Steve Seabury from High River Sauces comes onto the Craft Hot Sauce podcast. High River Sauces puts on the best hot sauce expos and hosts them in Brooklyn, Anaheim, Portland, Albuquerque, Chicago, and will be soon expanding internationally. On the podcast Steve shares his story of going from the...
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Tim from Pepplish on early days and advice starting a hot sauce company
I'm joined by Tim Fraczak from Pepplish in Queens, New York. We dive into some stories starting his hot sauce company, sourcing peppers from John Bowne High School, and coming up with recipes. Learn more on their website here: http://pepplish.com/ Or sign up for the Craft Hot Sauce of the Month...
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Tm from Paulman Acre on experimenting with beer and mushrooms in hot sauces
Tim Paulman of Paulman Acre joins the Craft Hot Sauce podcast. Tim talks about some lessons learned starting a hot sauce company and expands on his experimental philosophy behind his sauces. Other topics covered in the episode include the San Diego craft beer scene, funny fail stories, branding...
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Ben from Benito's Hot Sauce on sourcing ingredients from farms for flavorful hot sauces
Ben from Benito's Hot Sauce joins Brian on this podcast episode. Benito's is a small batch hot sauce company located in Montpelier, VT and Ben has a lot to share about sourcing ingredients and making connections with farmers. If you wanna check out their site, take a look here:...
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Kyle from Hella Hot Hot Sauce on creative hot sauce collaborations
Kyle Colson is the owner of Hella Hot Hot Sauce out of Campbell, California. Brian and Kyle talk about Hot Sauce marketing, Steve Seabury's Hot Sauce Expos, some interesting partnerships he has developed along the way, and lots more. You can tell Kyle is a fun, creative, and genuine guy and it...
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Jojo of Jojo's Sriracha on why she lives hard and gives a fuck, and why you should too!
Jojo's Sriracha is a small batch specialty hot sauce company out of the food-crazed Denver, Colorado. Jojo's focus on healthy and delicious food is at the core of her Sriracha sauce, and her passion translates into the people that try it.
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Bob Ferretti from Caldo Hot Sauce on giving back through hot sauce
Bob Ferretti from Hot Sauce 4 Good joins the Craft Hot Sauce podcast. Bob and Brian talk about the steps from moving to a hobbyist hot sauce maker to a full time business that thinks about community and helping first.
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Fabian of Pika Pika on Venezuelan cuisine and Berlin chilli sauce
Brian of Craft Hot Sauce interviews Fabian Rueda of Pika Pika Hot Sauce. Fabian and his colleague Diego are the co-owners of the Berlin hot sauce company, and both are originally from Venezuela. Brian and Fabian talk hot sauce, the influences behind Pika Pika, and advice for starting your own hot...
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Jonathan of Crazy Bastard Sauce on spicing up Irish cooking and tips for hot sauce making
Brian of Craft Hot Sauce meets and interviews Jonathan O'Reilly of Crazy Bastard Sauce, and artisinal hot sauce company located in Berlin.
About this show
The Craft Hot Sauce podcast is a podcast for hot sauce lovers, entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in learning more about the stories and inspiration behind craft hot sauces. Brian Ruhlmann the host of the podcast started the website and blog CraftHotSauce.com in 2014 and has been interviewing hot sauce crafters from all over the world about how they got started in spicy foods, cooking and business advice, and hearing the crazy stories along the way. Best to listen to the podcast while trying out the sauces from the guests!
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