World's Favorite Hot Sauce Label
​Round 1 Selections


All can view bottle labels on Instagram @oldboney or "Jeff Losey" on Facebook.

May 5 through May 10 the the judges and the public will cast their votes for the top 32 selections.

The top 32 will be bracketed, then the Sweet 16 then the Elite 8.

Elite 8 will be voted on by all of the small-batch companies entered in the 2025 competition to determine the Final 4.
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People's Choice voting on the FINAL FOUR labels runs from May 26, 2025 to June 4, 2025 and will be open to the world to vote.

1st, 2nd and 3rd place trophy winners will be announced on June 8, 2025 from Tarantula Hill Brewing Co in Thousand Oaks, California, and live streamed on YouTubes "Hot Sauce Grotto"

All sauce companies listed have at least one label moving to the next round of competition. Companies with an * have multiple labels moving on. Congratulations to all! We will post the "Round of 32" selections on Monday May 12.

Aztec Eagle
Beto's Hot Sauce
*Big Ginger Sauce Co
Bob & Brian's Sauces
Brunini's Extremely Spicy Hot Sauce
*Bootsie's Sauce Co
Canokie Foods
Defiant Sauce Co
*Earthquake Spices
Facepunch Foods
​Gaigan Thai Chili Sauce
Grunds Gourmet
*HAB Sauce & Sauce Lords
​​​Harmacy Hot Sauce Co.

Hawaiian Hot T's Hot Sauce
​*Heat From The Hammer
*Intergalactic Sauces
*Klowns on Fire Gourmet Sauces
*Knox Your Socks Off
Last Best Hot Sauce
Long Island Pepper Co
Maestros Sauce Co
Mamas Peri Peri
MAS
Maui Flavor Wave
MF Heat
​*Middle Finger Hot Sauce
​Mimi's Hittin' the Sauce!

Mulata Hot Sauce
Oil Town Brewing Co.
Red Beards Hot Sauce
*Rising Smoke Sauceworks
*Rivera Hot Sauce
*Singularity Sauce Co.
*Spice Beast
Swindle Sauce 
Texan Heartland
*TnT Spices
Toby's Place BBQ
*Torchbearer Sauces
*Villain Sauce Co.
​Whoa Doggie