Podcasts by Craft Hot Sauce Podcast
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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Bruce from Hoots Sauce on Scottish fire roasted fermented hot sauce from 2021-12-31T08:00:42
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....
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Riffing on hot sauce this summer and harvest season from 2021-10-09T22:40:27
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 go...
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Tim of Hot Heads Official on growing chili peppers and making spicy collabs from 2021-06-30T11:00:20
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...
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Debra Sandler of Bazodee on Caribbean-inspired pepper sauces from 2021-06-03T10:00:41
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...
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Trini Pepper Sauce on sharing Grandma's recipe and Trinidadian flavor from 2021-05-12T12:23:46
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.
Erica of Queen Majesty Hot Sauce from 2021-03-24T11:28:11
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 f...
Poor Devil Pepper Co. on fermented hot sauce and sourcing local from 2021-03-10T12:56:08
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 st...
Caroline Pam and Tim Wilcox on starting Kitchen Garden Farm from 2021-02-24T10:00:28
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 ...
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Phil on growing chili peppers with hydroponics from 2021-02-10T22:30:24
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 grow...
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David Delcourt of Seed Ranch Flavor Co on umami flavor and scaling from 2021-01-29T11:30:07
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...
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Paul and Tasia of Big Red's Hot Sauce on their entrepreneurial journey from 2020-10-30T10:00:24
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 ye...
David of Hab Sauce on creating unique hot sauce recipes from 2020-09-01T10:15:07
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 Su...
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Daivd of Hab Sauce on creating unique hot sauce recipes from 2020-09-01T10:15:07
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 Su...
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Brian of Craic Sauce and Craft Hot Sauce on creating a hot sauce community from 2020-08-20T10:00:15
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 from 2020-08-11T12:00:22
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 wh...
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Geoff of Sabarac on the science and art of hot sauce and chili fermentation from 2020-07-23T12:34:27
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...
Former NFL standout Reggie Kelly of KYVAN Foods on starting a CPG company after retirement from 2020-07-01T08:00:11
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...
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Dan of Small Axe Peppers on the relationship between community gardens and hot sauce from 2020-05-01T05:01:38
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 gr...
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Allan of Sacred Sauce on travel, music, media and hot sauce from 2020-04-23T09:00:13
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...
Josh and John of Old Bones Chili Co on creating delectable smoked habnero hot sauce from 2020-02-29T13:00:10
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...
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Mikey V of Mikey V's Foods on tips for cooking hot sauce from 2019-10-30T09:00:02
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 ...
Greg from Inferno Farms on lessons learned as a chef and breaking Carolina Reaper record from 2019-07-07T23:12:13
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 ...
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Stacy of Secret Aardvark on the story behind the OG craft hot sauce from 2019-07-01T09:45
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, makin...
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Sufia from Silly Chilly Hot Sauce on leaving fashion to pursue her passion of food from 2019-05-29T10:24:56
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 Fashio...
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Chef Nino on agriculture and partnering with rural farmers in Zimbabwe from 2019-03-31T15:25:47
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 resour...
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Thom of Voodoo Chile Sauces on creating a line of unforgettable hot sauces from 2019-01-27T22:45:36
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 co...
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Bret and Elijah on the father and son business journey of growing Elijah's Xtreme from 2019-01-23T10:50:22
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 20...
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Jen and Oli of Disco Hot Sauce on beats, DJing and making sauce in South East London from 2018-11-20T18:58:13
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...
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The journey and lessons from four hot sauce companies trying to trademark their brand from 2018-10-31T00:43:18
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 dif...
Dave of Silagy Sauce on starting a fire roasted hot sauce company with his sons from 2018-10-01T06:00:29
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 th...
President Dr. Ali Houshmand of Rowan University on making hot sauce for student scholarships from 2018-07-30T21:26:49
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 ...
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Matt and Cath of Hoss Soss on Costa Rican inspired flavors and the Oregon sauce community from 2018-06-17T23:00:04
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 fin...
Jay of Burns & McCoy on making the leap to full time sauce making and creating super hot hot sauces from 2018-05-31T13:09:52
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 ...
Smokin' Ed Currie of Puckerbutt Pepper Company on creating the world's hottest pepper from 2018-04-20T01:19:33
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...
Gene of Karma Sauce on getting their hot sauce on Hot Ones and scaling from 2018-03-29T21:40:13
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 sauc...
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Chris from Char Man Brand on designing sick labels and cranking out flavorful hot sauces from 2018-02-22T02:01:48
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 b...
Steve Seabury of High River Sauces Presents on putting on the biggest and best hot sauce events from 2018-01-31T22:59:29
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, ...
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Tim from Pepplish on early days and advice starting a hot sauce company from 2018-01-22T13:11:15
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.
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Tm from Paulman Acre on experimenting with beer and mushrooms in hot sauces from 2018-01-04T01:23:51
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.
Ben from Benito's Hot Sauce on sourcing ingredients from farms for flavorful hot sauces from 2017-12-17T18:36:11
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 maki...
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Kyle from Hella Hot Hot Sauce on creative hot sauce collaborations from 2016-04-07T02:18:32
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 dev...
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Jojo of Jojo's Sriracha on why she lives hard and gives a fuck, and why you should too! from 2016-03-19T18:56:21
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 passio...
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Bob Ferretti from Caldo Hot Sauce on giving back through hot sauce from 2016-03-19T18:51:39
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 communit...
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Fabian of Pika Pika on Venezuelan cuisine and Berlin chilli sauce from 2016-03-16T01:59
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. Br...
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Jonathan of Crazy Bastard Sauce on spicing up Irish cooking and tips for hot sauce making from 2016-03-16T01:54:34
Brian of Craft Hot Sauce meets and interviews Jonathan O'Reilly of Crazy Bastard Sauce, and artisinal hot sauce company located in Berlin.
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