While at the Swinetastic BBQ Festival, a KCBS Competition in Frederick, MD on June 17-18, 2011, I happened upon a couple of Maryland-based BBQ sauce companies. John Layton of Red Brothers was participating in the Backyard Competition while his brother Chris manned their vendor’s booth. After tasting 2 of their 3 BBQ Sauces, I decided…
We first met Rick and Maria Villafrade of Dragonfirehotsauce.com at the Bowers PA Chile Festival in 2010, where they were sampling and selling their very first sauce. Yes, one sauce. Now they have 8 sauces and are poised to be a serious hot sauce contender! We featured them on our podcast, HotSauceWeekly 037 Dragonfire Hot…
Domino’s Pizza Chicken? Yup, for the first time in over 9 years, the Michigan based pizza chain is revamping their chicken offerings. The venerable Detroit Free Press recently posted that Chicken is the New Star in Domino’s ads. You can read their post to get the PR spin, but THIS post will focus on what…
We are going international – to the West Indies for a look at some pepper sauces that you can get here in the US from California-Antilles Trading online. We can’t tell you how excited we are to be able to share with you these wonderful sauces from abroad, and the fact that they are so…
Firie Habanero Hot Sauce from Smoking J’s Hot Sauce Company out of Candler NC is a Caribbean style hot sauce. Smoking J’s is a family owned business in western NC… they grow their own habaneros on their 10 acre farm, they smoke the peppers with applewood for hours and create their own mash. These guys…
We met our newest Canadian friend Jay Calvert at the Weekend of Fire in Ohio, and he was packing – his Fuego Rojo and Fuego Azul sauces that is – from JakeAlberts.com. We had a chance to put these gourmet sauces to the test recently. First off, they come packaged in beautiful six-sided 8.8 oz…
Fire Ant Juice from Tropical Island Gourmet Company http://www.fireantjuice.com is offering a free bottle of Hobo Howey’s Jalapeno Treats with any order until the end of August 2010. Read on to find out how you can get yours! This sauce rocks! I think the name “Fire Ant Juice” is funny, and the graphics on the…
These are my top 3 favorite hot sauces that I always have in the house. There’s nothing exotic or fancy here – just simple, good for everyday use hot sauces that I always keep on hand. 1. Tabasco – The Granddaddy of hot sauces Tabasco has been around since 1868. Pages have been written about…