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Put it on anything! I especially like Hot Winter on eggs, and pizza, but it's also great mixed with mayo on sandwiches or burgers, or used to flavor simple dishes like rice and beans, or stir fried veggies.
Original Hot Sauce (Medium-Hot)
Our very own Hot Winter Pepper: the off-type Jimmy Nardello that inspired Hot Winter Hot Sauce. This sauce is less sweet and more earthy, with a slowly building heat that is robust, but not over powering.
Ingredients: Organic peppers (Hot Winter), Organic rice and cider vinegars, Organic cane sugar, kosher salt, Organic hardneck garlic
Hinkelhatz Hot Sauce (Medium)
A sweet-hot blend of Hungarian Hot Wax, Hinkelhatz and our own Hot Winter Pepper. Perfectly balanced, this sauce is reminiscent of Sriachia, but with much higher quality ingredients and greater complexity.
Ingredients: Organic peppers (Hungarian Hot Wax, Hinkelhatz, Hot Winter), Organic rice and cider vinegars, Organic cane sugar, kosher salt, Organic hardneck garlic
Poblano Hot Sauce (Mild)
A "warm" sauce with lots of smokey, green chile flavor, a pleasant sour, and just a touch of heat.
Ingredients: Organic peppers (Poblano,Hot Winter), Organic rice and cider vinegars, Organic cane sugar, kosher salt, Organic hardneck garlic
Chile Vinegar, Fruity
Naturally Brewed. We discovered chile vinegar while creating our fermented hot sauce. This is not a chile flavored vinegar, but an all natural vinegar made only from chiles and garlic. They aromatic, briney and piquant. Makes for great margaritas! These can also be used in spritzers, salad dressings, or for brining meats.
Mildly Hot
Ingredients: Organic Peppers, Kosher Salt, and Organic Garlic.
Chile Vinegar, Smoky
Naturally Brewed. We discovered chile vinegar while creating our fermented hot sauce. This is not a chile flavored vinegar, but an all natural vinegar made only from chiles and garlic. They aromatic, briney and piquant. Makes for great margaritas! These can also be used in spritzers, salad dressings, or for brining meats.
"Smoky" is made from the Hot Winter Pepper
Ingredients: Organic Peppers, Kosher Salt, and Organic Garlic.
Chile Vinegar, Spicy
Naturally Brewed. We discovered chile vinegar while creating our fermented hot sauce. This is not a chile flavored vinegar, but an all natural vinegar made only from chiles and garlic. They aromatic, briney and piquant. Makes for great margaritas! These can also be used in spritzers, salad dressings, or for brining meats.
Ingredients: Organic Peppers, Kosher Salt, and Organic Garlic.
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Shelf Life:
The hot sauce is best if NOT refrigerated. The label recommends keeping out of direct sun, but even this isn't strictly necessary. As long as the lid is replaced when not in use, the sauce will last for years on the shelf, even after opening. It's a low acid food that has been pasteurized. If you want a date, pick one 10 years in the future. The only way it will spoil is if you spill it on the floor, step in it, then leave it sit for several weeks.
The chile vinegar should be refrigerated after opening, however this is to maintain consistency of pH and flavor. It will not spoil if left out of the fridge. After opening, the CV can stay in your fridge for as long as humans have electrical power with which to operate refrigerators. After that, I make no guarantees.
Shelf Life:
The hot sauce is best if NOT refrigerated. The label recommends keeping out of direct sun, but even this isn't strictly necessary. As long as the lid is replaced when not in use, the sauce will last for years on the shelf, even after opening. It's a low acid food that has been pasteurized. If you want a date, pick one 10 years in the future. The only way it will spoil is if you spill it on the floor, step in it, then leave it sit for several weeks.
The chile vinegar should be refrigerated after opening, however this is to maintain consistency of pH and flavor. It will not spoil if left out of the fridge. After opening, the CV can stay in your fridge for as long as humans have electrical power with which to operate refrigerators. After that, I make no guarantees.
In 2009 at Mountain Home Farm, we discovered a rogue hot pepper in a field. Biting into the fruit, we found it immediately sweet, but with a slow-building heat that launched a three-year obsession with breeding the ideal pepper. Hot Winter sauce blends our very own Hot Winter pepper with a variety of organic heirlooms grown with love by our friends on small-scale farms. Together we are saving seeds and savoring the taste of simple food done right. Enjoy
I started making the hot sauce when I was working at Mt. Home Farm, which is a 5 acre mixed veggie farm that catered mostly to farmer's markets. The farm was in Orleans, CA, which is in eastern Humboldt and very rural. The farm had a lot of botany nerds, and we all had several seed saving projects, which is why I ventured to isolate the Hot Winter pepper when I first discovered the off type. I had been making hot sauce based on a recipe from the farmers mother, and when I eventually decided to leave the farm, it seemed like a worthy experiment at least to try and scale up the recipe and see what it would take to bring it to market. By then I'd been growing out and selecting the Hot Winter pepper for several years, and it was beginning to feel more like a distinct variety, so the whole experience had a feeling of natural development. I did some research and batch testing and received a lot of favorable responses, and have just been growing ever since.
At the core, my company is an effort to make people care about organic farming. To show that supporting organic farmers has a real taste benefit and to show them that it's worth paying farmers a living wage to support their efforts.
I think that since you have a wine focused site, it would make sense to talk up the varietal nature of the sauces, and the unique terroir of each batch.
Hot Winter offers radically different flavors than other hot sauces, because I'm using different kinds of chiles. Moreover, while I do work to maintain a certain consistency from batch to batch, there are subtle differences, especially year to year, depending on the growing season and conditions of the particular farms where each batch of chiles originates. Hot Winter is made in small enough batches, that you can taste these differences, and I think they are a thing to be relished.
We are also using chiles as our Primary ingredient, which I think is worth stressing. There is just a LOT of (high quality) chiles in each bottle.
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