{"id":47232,"date":"2020-07-22T15:40:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heatsupply.nl\/?p=47232"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:40:26","slug":"meet-the-makers-heartbeat-hot-sauce-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatsupply.nl\/en\/blog\/meet-the-makers-heartbeat-hot-sauce-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Makers: Heartbeat Hot Sauce Co."},"content":{"rendered":"

More and more people are getting to know the wonderous world of hot sauce, but most don’t know much about the creators of these delicious sauces. Who are those heroes behind the brands that spoil us with the best hot sauces? We are about to find out in our interview series ‘Meet the Makers’.<\/p>\n

Heartbeat Hot Sauce Co.<\/h3>\n

We are opening the series with the makers of Heartbeat Hot Sauce Co. In a short time this brand from Thunder Bay, Ontario (Canada) have gotten extremely popular, also because of their appearance in the YouTube show Hot Ones<\/strong><\/a>. The answers to our questions come from Al Bourbouhakis, co-owner of Heartbeat Hot Sauce Co. It’s time to meet the makers!<\/p>\n

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When & what was your first hot sauce experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I just remember my Dad taking the tabasco away from me as a little kid because I would completely smother my food with it.<\/p>\n

What drove you to start your own brand?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When my wife and I first started cooking sauce as a hobby, we made way too much for ourselves, so we handed it out to friends. Their feedback was what motivated us to build a business around it.<\/p>\n

How did you come up with the name of your brand?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few months into our new hobby, my wife surprised me with the name and labels as a way to encourage the side hustle.<\/p>\n

What is your favorite ingredient to work with?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We ferment our peppers and after about a month, the pepper mash becomes the most seductive ingredient on earth. The smell is just incredible. It\u2019s always exciting to open the barrels and check out the mash. The peppers are what it\u2019s all about at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

What does your working space look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our current space is starting to look like a hoarders den because we completely outgrew it, but we are on the brink of moving into our new production space which has been many months in the making. It\u2019s an amazing, customized facility with a laboratory grade production room and lots of space to grow!<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s our last week making sauce at the current space. Which as you can see is a very good thing \ud83e\udd2f As bittersweet as it will be to leave our first home, status is now URGENT \ud83d\ude02 #thunderbay #heartbeathotsauce #hotsauce<\/a><\/p>\n

Een bericht gedeeld door Heartbeat Hot Sauce Co.\u2122<\/a> (@heartbeat_hotsauce) op