2022 Competition
International Hot Sauce Competition Results
Mild Heat Division
1st Place - Sauce Leopard Bird Blood
2nd Place - Sweet Mama Hot Sauce White Label
3rd Place - Earthquake Spices Space Dust
Additional Finalists Mild Division:
Hook and Arrow – Cayenne Garlic
Father of Seven – GuaBerry
Villain Sauce Company – Good Guy Sauce
Pepper by Pinard – Hickory Smoked BBQ
High Desert Sauce Co. – Fire Roasted Green
Radiation Therapy Hot Sauce – El Gran Verde
Red Hot Foods – Mild Ketchup
Medium Heat Division
1st Place - Flash Point Sauces Peachanero
2nd Place - Pepper by Pinard Hickory Smoked BBQ
3rd Place - Pepper by Pinard Caribbean Habanero
Additional Finalists Medium Heat Division:
High Desert Sauce Co. – Ghost of Saffron
Jimoto Foods – Miso Hot Sauce
Father of Seven Sauces – Original Spicy and Sweet
Infinity Sauces – Let’s Go IPA
Eleven Eleven Sauce – Blazing Citrus
Infinity Sauces – Original
Flash Point Sauces – Smokin’ Mustard
Hot Division
1st Place - Knox Your Socks Off Tempting Fate
2nd Place - Rising Smoke Sauceworks Fiesta Caliente
3rd Place - Infinity Sauces TRI-HABA-SAURUS
3rd Place - Four Fat Franks Rainbow
Additional Finalists Hot Division:
Freaky Ferments – Verde
Facepunch Foods – Project X Reaper Edition
Dawson’s Hot Sauce – Original
Villain Sauce Company – Smoky Mountain Death
Hook and Arrow – Habanero, Orange, Ginger
Pepper by Pinard – Caribbean Reaper
Extra Hot Division
1st Place - Fxcking Hot Sauces The Redneck Reaper
2nd Place - MiMi’s Hittin’ the Sauce My Body On Fire Strip Off The Attire
3rd Place - High Desert Sauce Co.Hotter Adobo
3rd Place - Rising Smoke Sauceworks Slow Death
Additional Finalists Extra Hot Division:
Torchbearer Sauces – Garlic Reaper
Fxcking Hot Sauces – The Rattler
Flash Point Sauces – Blazing Mustard
Fxcking Hot Sauces – The Séance
Infinity Sauces – (the reaper brings) Bad News
High Desert Sauce Co. – Tikk Hot Masala
Fruit Based Division
1st Place - Magnolia Sauce Company Reapers Orchard
2nd Place - Flash Point Sauces Screaming Banshee
3rd Place - Torchbearer Sauces Plum Reaper
Additional Finalists Fruit Division:
Radiation Therapy Hot Sauce – Mad Mango
C 1on1 Reserve Artisanal Culinary Products – Tropical Habanero
Knox Your Socks Off – Eye of the Tiger
Hill Country Hot Peppers – Scorch‘N Sunrise
Father of Seven Sauces – Guavi-Q
Dorset Chilli – Punch
Villain Sauce Company – The Sinister Delight
BBQ Sauce Division
1st Place - Rivera Hot Sauce Ghost Pepper BBQ
2nd Place - Rivera Hot Sauce Bacon Ghost BBQ
3rd Place - Rivera Hot Sauce Scorpion Ghost BBQ
Additional Finalists Spicy Mustard Division:
TD’s Brew & BBQ – Cherry Chipotle
TD’s Brew & BBQ – Southern Mustard
Infinity Sauce – Sauced Owners Private Reserve
Fairy Tales Hot Sauce – Three Little Pigs Smoked Habanero BBQ
Pepper by Pinard – Hickory Smoked BBQ
Red Hot Foods – Instant Death BBQ Sauce
Rivera Hot Sauce – Hot Roasted Garlic Bell Pepper BBQ
Spicy Mustard Division
1st Place - Rivera Hot Sauce Hot and Spicy Mustard
2nd Place - Torchbearer Sauces Spicy Horseradish Mustard
3rd Place - TD’s Brew & BBQ Southern Mustard
Additional Finalists Spicy Mustard Division:
HAB Sauce – Luche Libre Mexican Red Chili
Rolling Rock – Mustard
Flash Point Sauces – Smokin’ Mustard
Nuland Hot Stuff – Sweet and Smoky Mustard
Red Hot Foods – Cajun Mustard
Red Hot Foods – Reaper Mustard
Flash Point Sauces Blazin’ Mustard
Spicy Snack Division
1st Place - Grim Reaper Foods Hellraiser
2nd Place - Chilli Alchemist Scorch
3rd Place - Grim Reaper Foods Purgatory
Additional Finalists Spicy Snack Finalists:
Rivera Hot Sauce – Hot and Sweet Cilantro Lime Relish
Dorset Chilli – Sweet Porky
Mimi’s Hittin’ the Sauce – Cathy’s Crazy Crisps
Chilli Alchemist – Dark Matter
Matt Hat Jerky – Pinch Your Grandma Spicy Beef Jerky
Grim Reaper Foods – Black Widow
Chilli Alchemist – Blaze
Mild Heat Division
1st Place - Sauce Leopard Bird Blood
2nd Place - Sweet Mama Hot Sauce White Label
3rd Place - Earthquake Spices Space Dust
Additional Finalists Mild Division:
Hook and Arrow – Cayenne Garlic
Father of Seven – GuaBerry
Villain Sauce Company – Good Guy Sauce
Pepper by Pinard – Hickory Smoked BBQ
High Desert Sauce Co. – Fire Roasted Green
Radiation Therapy Hot Sauce – El Gran Verde
Red Hot Foods – Mild Ketchup
Medium Heat Division
1st Place - Flash Point Sauces Peachanero
2nd Place - Pepper by Pinard Hickory Smoked BBQ
3rd Place - Pepper by Pinard Caribbean Habanero
Additional Finalists Medium Heat Division:
High Desert Sauce Co. – Ghost of Saffron
Jimoto Foods – Miso Hot Sauce
Father of Seven Sauces – Original Spicy and Sweet
Infinity Sauces – Let’s Go IPA
Eleven Eleven Sauce – Blazing Citrus
Infinity Sauces – Original
Flash Point Sauces – Smokin’ Mustard
Hot Division
1st Place - Knox Your Socks Off Tempting Fate
2nd Place - Rising Smoke Sauceworks Fiesta Caliente
3rd Place - Infinity Sauces TRI-HABA-SAURUS
3rd Place - Four Fat Franks Rainbow
Additional Finalists Hot Division:
Freaky Ferments – Verde
Facepunch Foods – Project X Reaper Edition
Dawson’s Hot Sauce – Original
Villain Sauce Company – Smoky Mountain Death
Hook and Arrow – Habanero, Orange, Ginger
Pepper by Pinard – Caribbean Reaper
Extra Hot Division
1st Place - Fxcking Hot Sauces The Redneck Reaper
2nd Place - MiMi’s Hittin’ the Sauce My Body On Fire Strip Off The Attire
3rd Place - High Desert Sauce Co.Hotter Adobo
3rd Place - Rising Smoke Sauceworks Slow Death
Additional Finalists Extra Hot Division:
Torchbearer Sauces – Garlic Reaper
Fxcking Hot Sauces – The Rattler
Flash Point Sauces – Blazing Mustard
Fxcking Hot Sauces – The Séance
Infinity Sauces – (the reaper brings) Bad News
High Desert Sauce Co. – Tikk Hot Masala
Fruit Based Division
1st Place - Magnolia Sauce Company Reapers Orchard
2nd Place - Flash Point Sauces Screaming Banshee
3rd Place - Torchbearer Sauces Plum Reaper
Additional Finalists Fruit Division:
Radiation Therapy Hot Sauce – Mad Mango
C 1on1 Reserve Artisanal Culinary Products – Tropical Habanero
Knox Your Socks Off – Eye of the Tiger
Hill Country Hot Peppers – Scorch‘N Sunrise
Father of Seven Sauces – Guavi-Q
Dorset Chilli – Punch
Villain Sauce Company – The Sinister Delight
BBQ Sauce Division
1st Place - Rivera Hot Sauce Ghost Pepper BBQ
2nd Place - Rivera Hot Sauce Bacon Ghost BBQ
3rd Place - Rivera Hot Sauce Scorpion Ghost BBQ
Additional Finalists Spicy Mustard Division:
TD’s Brew & BBQ – Cherry Chipotle
TD’s Brew & BBQ – Southern Mustard
Infinity Sauce – Sauced Owners Private Reserve
Fairy Tales Hot Sauce – Three Little Pigs Smoked Habanero BBQ
Pepper by Pinard – Hickory Smoked BBQ
Red Hot Foods – Instant Death BBQ Sauce
Rivera Hot Sauce – Hot Roasted Garlic Bell Pepper BBQ
Spicy Mustard Division
1st Place - Rivera Hot Sauce Hot and Spicy Mustard
2nd Place - Torchbearer Sauces Spicy Horseradish Mustard
3rd Place - TD’s Brew & BBQ Southern Mustard
Additional Finalists Spicy Mustard Division:
HAB Sauce – Luche Libre Mexican Red Chili
Rolling Rock – Mustard
Flash Point Sauces – Smokin’ Mustard
Nuland Hot Stuff – Sweet and Smoky Mustard
Red Hot Foods – Cajun Mustard
Red Hot Foods – Reaper Mustard
Flash Point Sauces Blazin’ Mustard
Spicy Snack Division
1st Place - Grim Reaper Foods Hellraiser
2nd Place - Chilli Alchemist Scorch
3rd Place - Grim Reaper Foods Purgatory
Additional Finalists Spicy Snack Finalists:
Rivera Hot Sauce – Hot and Sweet Cilantro Lime Relish
Dorset Chilli – Sweet Porky
Mimi’s Hittin’ the Sauce – Cathy’s Crazy Crisps
Chilli Alchemist – Dark Matter
Matt Hat Jerky – Pinch Your Grandma Spicy Beef Jerky
Grim Reaper Foods – Black Widow
Chilli Alchemist – Blaze