A year and a day ago, in last year’s December Craft Hot Sauce newsletter, we reflected on a big decade for the hot sauce industry. A year later, it feels like another decade has already passed! 

While 2020 is a year many would like to leave behind, it's worth looking back and reflecting on it because the craft hot sauce world has grown and changed a ton!

What's been your go-to hot sauce recently? It’s the height of summer cooking, so I’ve been using lots of verde and ghost pepper sauces. I put together two collections of my favorite verde and ghost pepper sauces. We share the story of a NFL veteran starting a spicy food line.

Hey! Over the past couple of weeks, you have probably seen a lot of decade-in-review articles. I tried to avoid being repetitive, but upon reflection, it was a huge decade for craft hot sauce, and I’m too grateful for your involvement to not say something. Some of you were our first dozen followers back in 2014...

What's up!! How was your Thanksgiving? It has gotta be hot sauce's favorite holiday with all the different pairing opportunities. My favorite combo was the Golden Pumpkin Craic Sauce with spicy curry squash.

We have a few new Craft Hot Sauce profiles from sauce makers from Ireland, Texas, and Thailand. We also updated our online shop with sauces from people that have done craft hot sauce profiles or were guests on our podcast. 

Hi there, Happy Harvest Season! No lie, my left foot, and hands are still burning as I type this, 24 hours after chopping up some ghost peppers. In years past, I learned my lesson of being careful going to the bathroom after chopping peppers, but now I know flip flops aren’t suitable footwear for chile chopping!

One person who makes the craft hot sauce community tighter is Smokin' Ed Currie of Puckerputt Pepper Company, or as Brian Caudle calls him, “The MJ of the pepper world!” Ed, creator of the Carolina Reaper (the hottest pepper in the world), got some recognition from our contributors this month.

Hi there, Happy Spring! Hope you've been keeping well. March was a busy month of production, making some of our biggest batches of Craic Sauce yet, but during that time I also got to meet a few folks in the craft hot sauce community. One of them was Chef Nino, who is a chef, farmer, and entrepreneur in Zimbabwe...

Hi , What's going on?! I have a new updated website for you! I planned to do this update two years ago, but between then and now, I had some time to think about why I've been keeping up with CraftHotSauce.com as a hobby since 2014...

Tis the season for seeing beautiful chili peppers coming in and dreaming up new hot sauces. I've been working on a fermented Louisiana-style sauce that hits this past month and tried dozens of creative homemade hot sauces at the Chilifest Hot Sauce contest put on by Kitchen Garden Farm.

Happy Labor Day weekend! Kitchen Garden Farms puts on an awesome hot sauce festival, and it will be my first one as a vendor. If you're in the New England area, Chilifest on September 15th and 16th is worth going to. It's right next to a corn maze, and they have a chili cook-off and hot sauce competition, spicy food, local beer, and great live music

Hope you’re getting out there and enjoying the warmer weather, and maybe even checking out some local hot sauce makers at farmer's markets in your area. Last month, we had Jay Turner from Burns & McCoy on the Craft Hot Sauce podcast. Jay makes one of the hottest all-natural hot sauces, Exhoresco, as well as one of my favorite unique hot sauces, White Lightning. 

Hi there, It finally feels like spring is here in Boston, and I hope it's getting warm where you are too. The super-hot peppers I've germinated the past couple months are going into the garden, and I'm dreaming up new hot sauces for Craic Sauce. Pepper growers are ramping up their spring schedule, and one of them...