Hot Sauce Brands Made in Ottawa
Flavourful hot sauce, made with fresh peppers grown in their Ottawa backyard. With heat rating levels out of 5, try Red Dawn for a milder spice, or Scorpion’s Kiss if you can handle the heat! They currently have a limited-edition flavour ‘Devil’s Brew’ that is even beyond the 5 rating. Haico’s also carries sweet jalapeños and a new honey mustard BBQ sauce.
Meow That’s Hot is a fruit based hot sauce brand made here in Ottawa. All hot sauce names are a fun play on words related to cats, with a focus on flavour first. With spice ratings from very mild to high heat, try Fire Kitty for a mild flavour or Calico Catastrophe for their hottest yet. In addition to hot sauce, they have their own kitchen and bar on Bank Street offering a rotating menu of comfort food.
As a true lover of hot sauce and spice, the owner has tried hundreds of sauces from all over the world, and decided to start making his own. Using fresh, local produce, they aim to bring something unique and delicious to your table. Sauces are rated both in heat level and sauciness. They also create dry spice rubs in a variety of heat levels.
Award winning hot sauce, in our Capital City creating a blend of flavour first and adding heat. Their small batch sauce is made using only fresh ingredients, with 18 hot sauces to choose from. Ranging from mild to inferno, you can find their heat rating in number of chili pepper images online and on the bottle.
The newest hot sauce in the city of Ottawa, Peppered Penguin offers Sunday deliveries in the West end, and Monday delivery for the East end. An online store is coming soon, for now you can order via Instagram messages and pay via email transfer. Choose from a variety of fun flavours including Peach Jerk, Piña Colada, Blueberry Heat, Roasted Jalapeño and Bonnet Pineapple. They also have pepper infused honey, ‘Hardcore Honey’.
All natural, seed to bottle hot sauce in Ottawa. Gordz is both the grower and producer of their sauces, growing a range of peppers on their farm, from mild to hot. They process their vegetables in their commercial food processing facility, also on site. You can find nutritional information, ingredients and flavour descriptions online. Spice level is rated out of 10, with the Gordz Pure Chocolate sauce being super-hot at a 10.
What started as simply adding home grown peppers to meals at home, turned into a local hot sauce business, here in Ottawa. They continue to grow their own hot peppers, as well as purchase some from local farmers, creating hot sauces with heat levels ranging from 1-5. You can place an order online, or find Mr. Pat himself at multiple Famers Markets in Ottawa.
Takeout meals, catering, desserts and sauces made in Petawawa, in the Ottawa Valley. You can select between hot sauce flavours such as Mango Peach Reaper or Devil’s Morning Cup, as well as a selection of BBQ sauces and dry rubs. Dry rubs like their Ghost Pepper Dust are another way to bring both heat and flavour to your meal.
All natural sauces with no preservatives nor additives, Just Awesome Sauces creates a range of flavours and spice levels, from mild to super-hot. Made just East of Ottawa, you can find these hot sauces at multiple local retailers from the Foodland in Russell, to the Hintonburg Market, and Chilly Chiles in the West end.
Location: Bayshore Shopping Centre & Tanger Outlets, Ottawa
An Ottawa local’s direct access to Canada’s largest hot sauce collection. You can shop in person at one of their two locations, or shop online. Free shipping for orders over $75 in the provinces Ontario and Quebec. You’ll find some of the sauces featured above, with access to a collection of locally made sauces from across North America. Check out other Ontario hot sauce brands such as No Refund, Heartbeat Hot Sauce and Villain Sauce Co, among others. Chilly Chiles also offers a hot sauce subscription box.
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