Hot sauce where flavor and fire are bound together.

Fresh vegetables. Real fruit. Actual bourbon.

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What Matters

Flavor First

Food should taste like food. The sauce makes it better, not louder.

Balanced Heat

Fire that lifts the flavor, not covers it.

Real Ingredients

Fresh vegetables. Real fruit. Actual bourbon. Nothing artificial.

The Lineup

Why Salamander

Fresh vegetables. Real fruit. Actual bourbon.

Fifteen years ago, I made this for myself because I couldn't find hot sauce that tasted right — one that brought flavor & fire together. People wanted it. So I kept making it.

Making Salamander Hot Sauce

Real Ingredients

Real ingredients. Nothing artificial. Fresh vegetables. Real fruit. Actual bourbon.

Every ingredient earns its place — for flavor, for balance, for texture.

What People Say

"Great flavor that brings the heat."

— GrahamJRG

"Compliments the food's flavor without sacrificing taste."

— Rob Crusan

Fifteen years ago, I made hot sauce where flavor and fire could finally coexist — not by taming the heat, but by letting it bring things to life.

If you're going to set your food on fire, make sure it's with something real.

From the Fire

Thoughts on ingredients, process, and what makes hot sauce work.

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