The founder and owner of Rising Smoke Sauceworks, Mike, joins the show to share the story behind his craft hot sauce brand.

Rising Smoke has a full line-up of 6 craft hot sauces and 3 craft BBQ sauces. The line-up includes Buenos Noches Hot Sauce, Fire Starter Hot Sauce, Smoldering Embers Hot Sauce, Fiesta Caliente Hot Sauce, Slow Death Hot Sauce, All In Hot Sauce, Buzz'N Berry BBQ Sauce, Drunken Smokehouse BBQ Sauce and Fiery Q BBQ Sauce.

The craft hot sauce and craft BBQ sauce company has won over 20 awards for their sauces since they launched their company 2 years ago, including the 2020 Golden Chili Award from the Fiery Food Challenge for their Smoldering Embers Hot Sauce.

In this episode we get into the details behind each sauce, discuss what recipes the hot sauces and BBQ sauces goes great with and perform live tastings of the sauces (which makes me SWEAT).

Each of the different sauces from Rising Smoke Sauceworks is unique. Some of the sauces, like the Drunken Smokehouse BBQ Sauce provide heat with subtle notes of sweetness. Other sauces, like the Slow Death Hot Sauce, lingers and burns your mouth hotter and hotter minutes after you've eaten the sauce.

We also spend a few minutes sharing stories about the challenges of starting a hot sauce brand and share our tips for getting into making craft hot sauce.

You can order any of the Rising Smoke Hot Sauces online at: www.risingsmokesauce.com