After months of work and lots of blabbering about what I was going to make, the mildly anticipated Redrum Hot sauces are ready to be unleashed on the unsuspecting public!
Every year I have a garden and grow all kinds of hot peppers, mostly Habanero’s, Orange and Red Savina, but a bunch of other stuff also. This year I had Long Joe’s and Cayannes and Jalapeno’s, Cherry’s, Thai Dragon, Hungarian Wax, Anaheims and a few red and yellow bells.
I took all of my harvest and put them into my smoker and smoked them with Hickory wood for 12 hours, stemmed all the little buggers and made a mash, what a pain in the butt!
I got hold of a bucket of Red Savina Mash from Jim Campbell at Mild to Wild (Thanks Jim!) and went to work on my baby’s!
The amount of work involved in doing this was ridiculous! I have no illusion that i am ever going to be the next great sauce maker, but I wanted to make some cool stuff to share with friends, family and you guys on the Hot Sauce Blog!
I am a chef, so i was able to make my sauce in the steam kettles at work and sterilize my bottles and all the good stuff to make sure my bottling process was compliant with safe food handling processes, (I am certified in food safety and sanitation).
My first plan was to make a “Special Reserve” so I searched the internet until I found some bottles I thought would look special, 13 bottles for the special sauce! Then I bought some french sealing wax. Over the course of several months I got more and more stuff for the project, Little Axes from Australia, Wax Stamps from Germany, Label ideas from friends and a cool Logo from Cabin Pepper, 5 Million Extract and 16 Million crystals from Mike Muso at HotterNell! Bought me some 5 ounce woozy’s and 10 ounce bottles and I was ready to rock!
It took me 7 hours on my day off from work to make the sauces, I started with my “RedRum Original” made 5 and 10 ounce woozys, a few cases each.
The ingredients are: Red Savina Peppers, Smoked Peppers, Vinegar, Shallots, Corn Syrup, Lime Juice, Herbs and Spices.
Then I made BBQ Sauce, took 1/2 hot sauce and half of my homemade bbq sauce recipe and mixed it together.
Ingredients: Red Savina peppers, Ketchup, Vinegar, Corn Syrup, Smoked Peppers, Shallots, Brown Sugar, Molasses, Lime Juice, Garlic, Herbs and Spices.
Now I think I may have gotten carried away, but I then took some of my Hot sauce and added 5 Million Scoville extract to it, bottled my 13 special bottles, 20 – 5 ounce bottles and had a little left over so I made 6 – 10 ounce bottles also.
But that wasn’t enough! I then took about a gallon of my hot sauce, added the 5 Million extract to it AND the vial of 16 Million Crystals to it, called it my “Extra Special Reserve”.
I made a giant 1.5 Liter Bottle of that, but I had some leftover so I made 2 – 10 ounce bottles and 7 – 5 ounce bottles.
Whew! This little hot sauce project was getting bigger and bigger! I decided to wax the tops of all the bottles, finally got a label done that I liked (a whole day just gluing those on) and put all the finishing touches on this morning!
I signed and numbered the 13 Special Reserves I set out to make from the begining, attached a little bottle of Bih Jolokia Powder and a little axe to each Bottle, put the RedRum seal on it and here they are for your viewing pleasure!
I have sent out a couple of unlabled bottles to people from the Hot Sauce Blog during the process and have gotten some pretty good reviews. The sauce has a rich, unique flavor (from my secret ingredient, I love that “Herbs and spices” on the label!) and the BBQ sauce kicks ass! I am going to send nick a bottle of each for review.
I am donating the #1 Bottle of the “Special Reserve” to Jim’s Step up for Charity, it will be in an auction soon from Nick at Sweat N’ Spice.
All the bottles are labeled 2006, I already have my Idea for next years “special offering”! Each year I am going to do something different!
If anyone is interested in a bottle, leave a comment and I’ll get in touch with you.
~ ChileHeadEd
2006 Original Sauce:
5 ounce RedRum Hot Sauce – $6.50
10 ounce RedRum Hot Sauce – $10.00
10 ounce RedRum BBQ Sauce – $6.50
Collectors:
5 ounce Signed and Numbered (First 13) – $15.00
10 oz. Signed and Numbered (First 13) – $20.00
10 oz. Signed and Numbered BBQ sauce (First 13) – $15.00
2006 Special Reserve with 5 Million extract:
5 ounce RedRum Special Reserve Taster – $15.00
(only 20 made, 13 free with collectors bottle )
10 ounce RedRum Special Reserve Taster – $20.00 (only 6 made)
8 ounce Collectors 2006 RedRum Special Reserve with free taster bottle
Signed and Numbered only 13 bottles made ““ $40.00
2006 Extra Special Reserve with 5 Million extract and 16 million crystals:
5 ounce RedRum Extra Special Reserve signed and numbered only 7 made – $20.00
10 ounce RedRum Extra Special Reserve signed and numbered only 2 made – $25.00
Written by ChileHeadEd
Nick Lindauer founded Hot Sauce Blog in 2004, making it one of the internet's very first hot sauce review sites. After 20+ years of tasting, reviewing, and attending every major fiery foods event in the country, he's back behind the keyboard covering the hot sauce world he helped build.
83 responses to “RedRum Hot Sauces are Done!”
Great job Ed – the bottles look amazing, especially the Extra Special Reserves! Put me down for one of each por favor
WOW – that is very Impressive Ed! Get in touch with me for a Special Reserve! Again, very impressive!!
They look awesome Ed! Please send me info on how I can add them to my collection.
Happy Holidays!
Ed, you’re a wild man!!
Uncle Big would be interested in the Special Reserve. How can I resist? 16 million crystal, are you crazy!! Gotsta have some.
Nice work Ed,
Lotsa of effort and it shows – maybe we can collaberate
on a special edition. Contact me I am interested in few bottles-5 million
8 ounce collectors for sure, 5oz. original sauce.
Scotty B
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RS, the prices are on the blog now, send me an E mail with what you would like and I will give you a total with shipping,
Ed
I would like one of these:
8 ounce Collectors 2006 RedRum Special Reserve with free taster bottle
Signed and Numbered only 13 bottles made – $40.00
I am interested. Please send info on how to obtain.
I would like one of: 2006 Special Reserve with 5 Million extract:
5 ounce RedRum Special Reserve Taster – $15.00
(only 20 made, 13 free with collectors bottle ) Please.
Thank you
Hi Ed, sent you an email with my request. Great job!
For those not into collecting, you need to at least give Ed’s sauce a try. REALLY good sauce!!!
TC
Ed, sent ya an e-mail….if not 8 then 5 🙂 thanx
ED if you get a chance on Monday call me JJ’s. Nice Job Bret
This is a really cool offering! Ed yer a great example of a commited chilehead. I can’t imagine all of the time and effort that you obviously have invested into these bottles. And the best part for me is the fact that I’ve had the opportunity to eat the redrum sauce. Not only can I look at a cool bottle, but I can also relate to what’s actually in the bottle. The contents of the bottle are just as impressive as the looks. First class all the way through!
Ed, count me in too, I’ll email ya tonight !!
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AJ,
How’d the xmas party go. anybody have fun with the Oblivion.
Let me know about how it went.
Scotty
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Ed:I am also interested, Please contact me. Thanks!!
Ed,
Great job, I’m sure the extra special is gone, but please put me down for a 8oz and 10 oz special reserve…
Thanks
Ed would love to get a 5 OZ original and a 5 OZ original collectors…one for eating and one for the collection of course…
Ed, email me. I would like to get a bottle or two for hubby’s stocking stuffers!
Naturally, I’d like one of each of the 5 oz’s also 🙂 That’s a really cool looking job you’ve done on the bottles! Thanks for using my chiles. I’m honored.
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Sorry if the pounding in my head annoys anybody, but we had a great time !!! Oblivion jerky was a big hit, and everybody had about 20 different sauces to taste, what a blast !!!
Ed, I have emailed you my order. Wow, what a great collection, your hard work and effort was well worth it. Can’t wait to put some on my shelves and in my fridge. !!!!!
Later gang, back to the couch !!!
I’d like to have one of you’re Hot Sauces (5 oz.) and a BBQ sauce. By the way, AWESOME JOB!!! These bottles look so super cool. Truely a professional job. You can e-mail me at scott.daniels@msn.com
Thanks,
Yee Haaaa, just heard from Ed that I got the last of 13, whew !!!
Lookin forward to it Ed
Aj
I’m in PANIC mode, what do you have left Ed! Please PM me!
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Vic, i bought everything he had when i saw the post, you can have whatever you need for just a 300% markup…lol..just kidding, how foes it brother?
Hey Ed,
How much for the 1.5 litre bottle??? LOL
Ed, the bottles look fantastic! And the bottle I got from you is already half gone. Good good stuff!!! Please put me down for a 5 ounce extra special reserve! Thanks.
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It “foes” good man! 300% ? come on man- that’s low for you, are you in the Christmas Spirit or what? lol 😉
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Hey Vic, TBS, how goes it guys?
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LOL….Bah Humbug….nah, i just like ya big man, so i lowered the price!! lol
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Not too bad Jack, how’s the weather in sunny AZ?? Jim should be forwarding you the deathmatch bottles soon.
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Right on, We’ll get them up the 1st of the year as a start to another add as we go auction. THANKS DK for the labels and TBS for helping out on this!!!
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now we just have to make sure Jim, can set a new record…..we’ll have to think up a good challenge for him. since he seems to think it’s so easy for someone to break it, i think it should be 150,000 stairs!!!!! what do you think Jim? can you do it????
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OUCH !!! I thought we were tryin to help the guy, not kill him !!!! LMAO
Hey all! Thank you so much for the AMAZING response to my sauces! I hope you all enjoy them! I am sold out on the Extra Special Reserve and the 8 ounce collectors special reserve. I still have a few 5 ounce and 10 ounce special reserve tasters with 5 million extract and signed and numbered 5 ounce, 10 ounce and BBQ on the regular. And the unsigned 5 ounce, 10 ounce and BBQ.
If you missed out on the special reserve you can still have a chance to buy the #1 of 13 when the next Step up for Charity Auction is posted. I sent it to nick,
Thank you all!
Ed
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LOL…nah we don’t want to kill him….but he’s so modest…he keeps saying that it’s not that big a record, so i want to give him a major challenge…lol…. as far as i’m concerned 106 stairs is alot, forget about the ,000 that follows..lol
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Right on Ed, you deserve it !!! You have always helped us and have supported PPP from the getgo, so it is fantastic to be able to throw some back. Keep it up bro, I’ll buy ya a beer in NM, can’t wait !!!
Cheers, Aj
Hey Blane you on? call me, or give me your extension…pls
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Actually- I’ve been giving it some consideration. The American Cancer Society wants to open a Hope Lodge here in Indy. As they provided the bulk of the witnesses I thought it would be nice to do what I can for them. I thought I might have one more attempt left in me, to try and hit 120K (150K is beyond my reach I think) but after the last few sessions on the machine, I ain’t feelin’ it 😉 I think my knees are pretty well toast. Got to see if my doc will hit me up with ‘the juice’ & see how they feel after that. At least they went for a good cause 🙂
Santa’s elf has been veeery busy this year. Great job, Ed!
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Well Jim, it’s great doing things for charity, but don’t cripple yourself because of it. or we’ll have to do charity events to raise money for the Jim Campbell Fund, so you can have a wheelchair, and nurses and all 🙂 hehe
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Nurses? PERK !!!! Thats like telling Huvason FREE BEER !!!
How can I obtain a 10oz RedRum – if still available?
Thanks.
Matt
Howdy,
I wouldn’t mind getting some information on these if there are any still available.
Thanks
Jeremy
THANK YOU ED!!!! Bottles arrived today and look even better in person than in the pics. Great job!
Yeehaw! Got my signed & numbered Redrum today 🙂 Great stuff Ed & I’m not normally a fan of the heat of hab sauces. Couldn’t help myself 🙂 Has a great smokey aroma and wonderful flavor!
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Damn, that Ed must be a superfast shipper, I could use some lessons, lol. Cant wait for mine !!!!
Thank you to everyone who bought some of my sauces! I hope I haven’t missed anyone who sent me an E mail, it was kind of crazy! I am going away on Vacation Friday and won’t be back for 3 weeks, so if you don’t have your order in yet, its tomorrow or January! Everybody have a great holiday!
Ed
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Thanks Ed! Have a great vacation. Hell of a thing you’ve done with these bottles. Can’t wait to get mine, even if I have to wait until January! 🙂
Hey there guys! How’s it going.
Ed…you’ve got mail
DK, Vic, how goes it brothers?
Have a great trip Ed !!
Thanks Ed, very nice bottles. Plus they got here pretty damn fast considering all the holiday shipments UPS is toting around.
Ed, if you have any extra super special reserve, I’m there dude. Let me know.
Mike
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Ed, I know that you are on vacation and will not see this for a while. I’m sending an eamail to thank you as well. Got my bottle today. I would like to thank you for thye #1/7 5 ounce RedRum Extra Special Reserve that arrived safe and sound. Great job Ed. Really nice bottle and label. Looks way better in hand than in the pics. This is my first #1 bottle. Although the number normally doesn’t matter to me, this bottle will be cherished as much for that #1 as it will for whom and where it came from. Thanks again man, you just made my day!
Wow, a #1, I woulda never thunk it! 🙂
Thanks Ed…they arrived safe and sound !
Ed, bottles arrived last night, Very nice. Plan on opening the tester over the Holidays…..
Thanks again
Ed!
The bottles arrived safe and sound yesterday. Sauce looks amazing and they are proudly display in the store on my little collection shelf.
Make sure you let us know when the 2007 reserve hit the kettle alright?
Can’t wait to sample the 16 million bottle, mm, mmm, good!!
Pertaining to these sauces:
I like the red and green theme going on with these bottles, and the unique lid metal cap spring thing. Very unique. Also I love that you have a sauce thats as big as a wine bottle, now thats quality! I would love to
get that bbq sauce in the future it sounds fantastic.
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Containing to the industry and the bloggers in general, I want some oppinions:
(This is not a comment at all directed at Ed or anyone in particular but just at the industry as a whole.)
Is noone creative enough to do something else then the wax/resin dipped top? Its been done before, and everyones trying to just jump on the bandwagon, Lets brainstorm how to make a sauce standout more even if were looking at packaging, lets dip it in gold, lets strap kryptonite too it. Lets cork it and make you use a wine corkscrew to open it, lets make it a puzzle that you have to solve before it lets you have sauce, lets make a bottle that you twist the sauce out of, lets put it in a toothpaste tube, lets chrome the cap, lets strap a thermometer to the bottle, lets make it have a glass lid, lets ship it in a chemistry vial, lets, lets, lets, do something different. sorry, im in a ranting mood.But why do all the new sauces being created have to ride on someone elses sucess and creativity.
oh and im gonna get stoned for this comment plus its a tad off topic, but I was under the impression that a reserve was supposed to mean "exclusivity", as in special, or not normal, or rare, or something of that nature.
How many reserves can Blair put out before people other then myself catch on to the fact that every time he puts a reserve out, Your own reserve be it a 2am or 3am or any of his reserves becomes just that much less special. Less exclusive. One or two more reserves and its very unlikely I am going to be able to contain myself any longer. My reserves going to be how should I say... normal and commonplace, and im going to have to open it and eat it.
Stoned as in bong hits of dehrydrated Red Savinas? OR stoned in as you will stir a ruckus and get slammed? Hmmm, me thinkin I better shut up on this one.
My RedRum (regular, 10oz.) arrived a couple of days ago (Thanks, Ed!) and I’ve cracked it open. Awesome sauce! Great flavor.
Too bad I didn’t have the funds to buy a whole case. 😉
Daniel, I appreciate your comments. The wax thing however has been around for centuries. The ancients used it to seal the amphora they kept their oil in. I know that its done for effect, but it is also a very effective seal, especially when it comes to tamper evidence which is required by the authorities. The chemistry vial has been done (Doc McNeills’s Final Experiment), the tube has been done (check your nearest Asian market), the corkscrew has been done (Ther original Holy Chipotle bottles, sealed with stinky bee’s wax), even beer bottle type caps have been done (El Paso Chile Company). What it really comes down to is approved sealing methods and the FDA. Those who bottle legitimitly have to follow codes. Certain equipment is required to do certain types of packaging. Not everyone can afford the cost of the equipment. I applaud your rant, but there are boundries to what we can do legally.
Very good questions you raise… As long as the market exists, you will find them popping up periodically. The answers to the questions Nick put forward reveal quite a bit to the motivation of the buyer (collector). It is interesting reading. Thanks again for your comments!
Ohh CaJohn, you arent going to win this until you can find me a bottle with kryptonite attached haha. =)
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Hmmmmmm…………………..
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Figuroa Brothers did a bottle called Kryptonite, with a picture of a green crystal on it, does that count? The sauce was glowing green…
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You have the Big Daddy of sauces and all you can say is you want a bottle of Kryptonite? Are you kidding me….. John was to kind with his words with you, If you collect any type of sauce you would see all the rare one of a kind bottles out there, John listed a few but only recieved an ignorant response in return….
John is to humble to list other’s so I’ll help out…. Excaliber, Log Cabin, Lava Dome, O’ My stars, Adam and Eve, Cobra, Sunburst, one of my favorites the light you up which is sauce in a light bulb, mini light you up, lets not forget the CE that he created for ZF…. Here’s a few other’s DC NOS bottle, Hot Pod…. That is just to list a few..
I’m going to stop the rant, because truly you did not do your research before posting…. With your comments, it looks like you where looking for confrontation…
One additional thing, put down the comic book and come back from fantasy world.. There is no Krypnomite, Invisible bottles, seceret decoder rings and such…. Just some very cool bottles if you just open your eye’s and look…
Just my thoughts…
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Is that in the works already Creator?
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Ohh that was well said winder licker. This brings me to something my good old boys were sitting around the campfire one night and a big light went off. Hot sauce for taste. What about smell, old Billy Bob wants to bottle his farts. Do you know anybody who would help use. What about Daniel. Something new we would be the first ones. I think this is going to be big.
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I’m still laughin……. You could do Mild to extreme, I think your on to something LeRoy, but it will have to be in a Special Bottle for Daniel…..
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Not quite. Our last release did glow green though. LOL!
Greetings to all from Africa, Having an awesome time…haven’t found any hot sauce to buy yet, but I am working on it, just found this internet cafe…boy I really needed an internet fix! One reason I used wax as stated was that you have to seal your bottles and I didn’t want to buy a million shrink collars and have buy a heat gun…wax was just easier, and looks better in my opinion!
Ed
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Ed I wasnt complaining about your wax, I acctually am quite impressed with your products ( i even want a bbq if any are left), I just wanted to stimulate and bring up conversation on why everyone is using wax now.
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You know im dangerously running low on your products, I need to get some more new stuff, I always feel guilty eating yours though, I can just feel my arteries plugging! lol, I have defcon2 its taste great but there isnt enough heat IMO. Im really glad I skipped defcon3, ill have to move up to defcon1
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Thank you CaJohn for being such a nice guy. I never thought about rules and regulations to packaging the bottles. That does make sense. And your abillity too name products that I was only joking around with was outstanding.
Noone ever did talk about the Blair reserves though. IMO he puts out too many. What do you all think?
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Nicely put CaJohn, we are using new bottles for our Slobber Sauce that need sealing and are heavily considering wax, not for keeping up with the Jonses but satisfying FDA and the nice clean look.
Daniel, I am also curious on how everyone feels on using the title “Reserve”. Just so happens we are coming out with some hot sauces at the first of the year that will be called “C.P.R. – Candy’s Private Reserve” (named after my lovely wife). I guess I never looked at is as small quantities but more as something special, would be curious what others think. (except Jim C. – you know how them opionated firemen can be)
I bet Jim has enough senority to be off Christmas, not me I have to work 7am-7am.
Re: I bet Jim has enough senority to be off Christmas
Maybe enough seniority, but not enough sense 😛 If by chance I am off on CHRISTmas, I usually trade back to work it so that someone else (with kids) can have it off. Traded to work CHRISTmas Eve this year. Working New Years Eve and New Years Day both also 🙂 You all know what a partier I am 😉
Re: except Jim C. – you know how them opionated firemen can be)
Not fair! I would have indeed agreed she is lovely 🙂
Re: Noone ever did talk about the Blair reserves though. IMO he puts out too many. What do you all think?
Good question Daniel!
I think it is up to the market to determine ‘too many’ and there are conflicting signs as to wether or not we’ve reached the saturation point. On the one hand the releases sell out within hours, so- no. On the other hand, I can’t seem to sell them at all on the secondary market, so- yes.
[…] Now enter ChileHeadEd. Ed is a chef, hot sauce collector, and now a budding hot sauce entrepreneur. Ed and I had a long conversation about hot sauces, the joy of collecting, and some of the cool people we’ve met along the way. In short, he offered to sell one to me to enrich my collection. Yup, I was giddy as a schoolgirl about it as well. […]
WOW… The Special Reserve is Hot and thats a understatement…. Very good….. I need to order the BBQ and Regular Hot sauce. Great sauce Ed.
I know your on Vacation I’ll e-mail you my 2nd order.
Ok Folks, i know you have all been waiting for this moment to arrive! RedRum T-shirts are now available, I have Large, Extra Large and a couple of 2x and 3x Shirts. They are $10.00 each plus shipping. Anyone coming to the Defcon Day January 27th could pick one up from me and save the shipping. I think shipping should be $3.00 in the US, if it is different when I send the first one out I will let you all know,
Thanks!
Ed
I will try to get nick to link up a picture…I can’t figure out how to do it!
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Ed 3x for Bret at JJ.
Ed, large for me, I’ll email you
Hi Folks,
I am new to this forum and idea of bottling. My wife is asian makes a hot sauce that all of our friends love. Since she’s sitting at home waiting on her green card and work permit she’s bored. We both thought it might be fun for her to bottle her sauce and try to sell it on the web. If we make 50 cents a year we are more than happy. this is more of a hobby and something to do for her.
Anyway probably owing to too much time spent in the corporate world I’m concerned about food safety and the costs of bottling and packaging. Can anyone point me to some resources that the home bottler/slash tiny home distributor should know or could use? Also I’d love some suggestions on supplies and/or any typical cost/bottle info or metric that people are using.
Thanks in advance!
Jon
Are there any 10oz RedRum Originals left? I’ve just about finished my first bottle, and want more.
TIA!
Matt Bittner
I’m looking for the orange habanero sauce, can’t find it anywhere. Anyone know howe I can get some?