News — Hot Sauce Awards

Brown Label: 2016 Good Food Awards Finalist!

I could not be more excited to share with you all that Lucky Dog Hot Sauce Brown Label has been named a finalist in the 2016 Good Food Awards!   Since the inception of Lucky Dog Hot Sauce, I've been committed to sourcing locally whenever possible, and often at greater cost to produce my products. As such, it is both personally rewarding and a huge honor professionally to be recognized as a part of this community of responsible food producers.   The 2016 Good Food Awards winners will be notified in the coming weeks. While of course I'd love to...

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Lucky Dog Hot Sauce Wins Big at the 2013 THPAs!

Announced 12/30/13, Lucky Dog Hot Sauce won 7 awards, including the "THE HOT PEPPER AWARD (#1 Overall)" for hot sauce!   Not bad considering I entered sauces into 7 categories? I didn't have Purple Label or Pink label out in time, but Black Label got some serious love, and I'm beyond happy to report that the Red Label won the 1st place overall hot sauce award!!! As many of you know, when I was a hobbyist, Red Label was my baby - I worked on that sauce for years to make what I considered a great every day, use on...

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Lucky Dog Hot Sauce Wins 1st at New Orleans Hot Sauce Festival!

The Chile Pepper Magazine Awards went down in New Orleans in September at the NOLA Hot Sauce Festival.    I am proud to say that Lucky Dog Hot Sauce Orange Label won 1st place for "Pepper Blend Hot/X-Hot" among some fierce competition!      This page will be updated when the trophy photo is available, but for now you can chalk one up for the little guy!    Complete awards results listed here:  http://www.chilepepperextravaganza.com/the-chile-pepper-award/

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The Hot Pepper Awards 2012!

  The Hot Pepper awards were just announced and I’m excited to say that Lucky Dog Hot Sauce had two products place in 3 categories!!  Category:  JALAPENO 1st - Smoke Canyon - Smoke Roasted Jalapeño Sauce 2nd - Lucky Dog Hot Sauce - Green Label 3rd - JungleRain - Serpents Bite PEPPER BLEND 1st - New World Hot Sauce - Roadhouse Red Pepper Sauce 2nd - Lucky Dog Hot Sauce - Orange Label 3rd - Davez Foodz - Sweet Spicy Girl SAVORY 1st - Sean’s booYah! - The Hammer 2nd - Lucky Dog Hot Sauce - Orange Label 3rd -...

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