News — fiery food challenge

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 Green Label takes home a 2013 Golden Chile!

Lucky Dog Hot Sauce Green Label took 1st place for "Mild" and also 2nd place for "Jalapeno" sauce categories at the 2013 Zestfest Fiery Foods Challenge in Texas.  It's among the biggest hot sauce competitions in the country with over 400 companies competing with more than 900 products.  Thanks to everyone who's supported me - from the early victims of my first experiments so many years ago to the heaps of encouragement from friends to take this thing pro & customers supporting the business as I started to gain some traction. I'm positively tickled right now. I couldn't have done it without...

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