The Craft Hot Sauce Podcast

The Craft Hot Sauce Podcast is an original podcast first started in 2015 focused on connecting with makers and doers in the craft hot sauce community.

Brian, host of the podcast and founder at Craic Sauce and Craft Hot Sauce, interviews hot sauce makers, chili growers and farmers to learn from their journeries and experiences, and enjoy the opportunity to reflect and talk about the exciting, flavor packed world of craft hot sauce.

Enjoy a variety of long form interviews with topics spanning from growing peppers, fermentation, marketing, and community impact, and guests from 10+ countries.

Episodes aren't just for hot sauce makers, but people looking to learn about the passion and path to the craft and approaches to flavor, with a fare share of crazy stories along the way.

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Popular episodes of the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast

paul ford and tasia ford founders of big red's hot sauce

Tim and Caroline founders of kitchen garden farms

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Big Red's Hot Sauce

Paul Ford is a doer. He's always been the one to make things with his hands.

Paul and his wife Tasia have been making hot sauce for 10 years now and reflect on their journey and why.

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Queen Majesty Hot Sauce

Erica says she was the different one and knew she wanted to end up in NYC.

Erica says NYC embraces being different, and early on she found herself drawn into Jamaican music.

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Smokin' Ed Currie of Puckerbutt Pepper Company

Ed Currie is the creator of the Carolina Reaper pepper and grows the hottest peppers in the world.

On the podcast we talk about his background, how he breeds and creates the world's hottest peppers, the elements of a good mash and much more.

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Four hot sauce companies trademarking their 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 came up, and trademark lessons for you to avoid.

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Sabarac

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 miso style.

This episode explores different techniques of fermenting including using a brine versus a chilli mash, common mistakes made by people new to fermenting, and some funny stories along the way.

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Secret Aardvark

Secret Aardvark was founded in 2004 by the late 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 world.

Stacy Moritz shares the story with us.

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Kitchen Garden Farm

Tim and Caroline share their journey starting their farm in Western Mass in 2006 and creating a delicious line of hot sauces and other value-added food products.

Topics on the podcast include their winter long term planning, personal journeys before meeting at Union Square Greenmarket, the KG Crew, Chilifest and food travels.

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What the chiliheads are saying about the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast

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A must listen for hot sauce enthusiasts

If you're into learning about hot sauce, this is all for you. Brian spends each episode asking guests in the biz good questions that most of us listening want to listen to.

Best Hot Sauce Podcast!

Fun podcast about the world of craft hot sauce, and great music. Always excited to listen to new episodes when they're posted

Perfect podcast for spicy fans

I love hot sauce and find it inspiring hearing from other local hot sauce makers from all over

Love this podcast!

I can't believe this podcast ins't more popular. Incredibly interesting and inspiring!

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About Craft Hot Sauce

Craft Hot Sauce focuses on sharing authentic maker stories and unique hot sauces from all over the world.

Founder Brian Ruhlmann, started this website in 2014, which was only supposed to be a one-month long on-boarding project for his former employer HubSpot. A month before he cooked up his first hot sauce, a recipe with roasted pumpkin and home grown habaneros and ghost peppers.

Brian cold called Salamander Sauce (Brooklyn, NY), Pika Pika (Berlin, Germany) and Smokin Ed Currie (Fort Mill, SC) to fulfill his duties for writing blog posts for this work project and picked up on each makers passion and influences from their location and culture. These relationships lead Brian down the path to meeting new hot sauce makers, chili growers and sharing their stories and sauces with the growing craft hot sauce community.

Stories lead naturally to sauces, and Craft Hot Sauce operations a flavor curation service and hosts an online hot sauce shop with all different varieties of hot sauces.

All the hot sauces on the website are paired with original reflections from the makers on our podcast or makers stories blog.

Craft Hot Sauce seeks out the most unique, local sourced, flavor packed hot sauces and encourages people to live their lives to the fullest by connecting, sharing stories, and exploring flavor.

Find your flavor with us at Craft Hot Sauce!

-Brian Ruhlmann

Founder, Craft Hot Sauce & Craic Sauce

Craft Hot Sauce Podcast

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Popular episodes of the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast

Big Red's Hot Sauce

Queen Majesty Hot Sauce

Smokin' Ed Currie of Puckerbutt Pepper Company

Four hot sauce companies trademarking their brand

Sabarac

Secret Aardvark

Kitchen Garden Farm

What the chiliheads are saying about the Craft Hot Sauce Podcast

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