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, and will be soon expanding internationally.

On the podcast Steve shares his story of going from the music industry to hot sauce, why his hot sauce expos are always a good time, and the brotherhood of the small batch hot sauce industry.

If you're interested in trying sauces like High River Sauces or other small batch companies check out the Craft Hot Sauce of the Month Club here: http://bit.ly/2ntTIKQ

Music is by Void Vater based out of Los Angeles. Their newest single "No Return" of the album Dehumanized is played in entirety at the end of the episode. I suggest you watch their music video where you can see their guitarist Erik wearing a High River Sauces t-shirt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfGCightOBI

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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.

Learn more on their website here: http://pepplish.com/

Or sign up for the Craft Hot Sauce of the Month Club here: https://shop.crafthotsauce.com/collections/monthly-craft-hot-sauce-club/products/monthly-medium-hot-hot-sauce-club

Music is by Danielle Hecht, Greg Blair, and Bobby Spellman. Here is the music video to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlJiKrgftdk

You can see them on February 9th at Feinstein’s 54 Below

254 West 54th Street

February 9th doors at 8:45 show at 9:30

Tickets Available at:

https://54below.com/events/danielle-hecht/

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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.

Other topics covered in the episode include the San Diego craft beer scene, funny fail stories, branding tips, and interesting hot sauce recipes.

Paulman Acre's sauces will be included in January Craft Hot Sauce club orders: https://shop.crafthotsauce.com/collections/monthly-craft-hot-sauce-club

Tim mentioned his favorite band is the Grateful Dead, so it was only appropriate that our music guest was the T-Sisters doing a cover of Bird Song.

You can view the music video of their cover here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ntMBeW-ays

To purchase more Paulman Acre sauces or learn more about them, you can find out more here:

Website - http://paulmanacre.com/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/PaulmanAcre

Twitter - https://twitter.com/PaulmanAcre

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paulmanacre/

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY54Ad_lVBjBosg7LDAV4uw

You can find out more about the T Sisters here:

Website- https://tsisters.com/

Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/tsisters

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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 making connections with farmers.

If you wanna check out their site, take a look here: http://www.benitoshotsauce.com/

Music by Twisted Pine: http://www.twistedpineband.com/ facebook.com/twistedpinemusic/

To try out more local hot sauce hot sauces like Benito's give the Craft Hot Sauce club on CraftHotSauce.com

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 developed along the way, and lots more. You can tell Kyle is a fun, creative, and genuine guy and it definitely translates into his Hot Sauce.

Towards the end of the podcast I ask Kyle where people can find him online.

His website is hellahothotsauce.com

Facebook- Hella Hot Hot Sauce LLC

You can buy his sauces online and at the following places in California- Stateside Crafts, Psycho Donuts, Motorpool Automotive, Heat Hot Sauce Shop, and Tap-Tempo Music Shop.

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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 passion translates into the people that try it.

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 community and helping first.

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. Brian and Fabian talk hot sauce, the influences behind Pika Pika, and advice for starting your own hot sauce company.

Brian of Craft Hot Sauce meets and interviews Jonathan O'Reilly of Crazy Bastard Sauce, and artisinal hot sauce company located in Berlin.