Small batch hot sauce · Austin, Texas

Cook like a mortal.Eat like a myth.

Flavor-first hot sauces forged from fruit, fire, smoke, spice, and peppers with consequences. Every bottle has a distinct character—and a reason to live on your table.

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The collection

Choose your heat.

Nine sauces. Nine completely different reasons to reach for the bottle. Filter by flavor, then open any sauce for the full description and pairings.

The Critical Heat standard

Heat should earn its place.

Hot sauce is not a dare. It is an ingredient. Every Critical Heat recipe starts with the dish, not the Scoville number. We build layers first—fruit, acid, smoke, aromatics, spice—and then choose the peppers that make the flavor hit harder.

Flavor firstHeat supports the recipe instead of burying it.
Real ingredientsFruit, peppers, garlic, spices, vinegar, and patience.
Built to pairEvery bottle has a job to do at the table.
Roll for damage

There is no safe choice.
Only a delicious one.

Start with the flavor you already love, then let the heat pull you somewhere stranger.

Find your bottle

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