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2025 Hot Sauce Vendors: A Celebration of Northeast USA Hot Sauce Companies

The Spicy Shark
Naked Hot Sauce
High River Sauces
Butterfly Bakery
Angry Goat Pepper Co
Craic Sauce
Horseshoe Brand Hot Sauce
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WhiteHouse Station
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Bali Marle
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Big Rich 2
Volcanic Ash
Jersey Barnfire
Hells Kitchen
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SD Sauce
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Hot Sauce Holsters
Maine Gravy
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Revolutionary
Dandido
30 Acre
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The Event MCs

Bella and Dark from Heat 101 are back for 2025!
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Invasion of the Sci-Fi Peppers!

MAIN EVENT:  Hot Sauce professionals  compete against each other in a Hybrid, Super Hot, Pepper Eating Contest!  Hybrid super hots come straight from the creator of the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X, Ed Currie. Submit your pepper eating resume to apply to enter this contest:
Sponsored by: Ed Currie and Puckerbutt Pepper Company.

2025 Food Vendors

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Limited Number of VIP Early Entrance:

2025 Craft & Specialty Vendors

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Cassies
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Sages
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Schedule and Parking

EVENT SCHEDULE 
    •    10am - VIP Entrance
    •    11am - General Admission
    •    Noon – Jalapeno contest, sponsored by Great Island Realty
    •    1pm – Sages Magic Show, sponsored by Inn Season Resorts
    •    1:45pm – Grill giveaway sponsored by The City Beverage Centers
    •    2:00pm – SuperHot Contest, sponsored by Bangor Savings Bank
    •    2:45pm – Hot Wing Contest, sponsored by Avery Insurance
    •    3:30pm – Main Event: Sci-Fi Peppers Contest, sponsored by Wells Fargo

 

Parking

Parking - We have plenty of parking options, but be advised there is no parking at Smuttynose Brewery. Please do not attempt to park at Smuttynose as it may disrupt the flow of our volunteers and cause delays to our bus services.

VIP ticket holders can park at Q-Tech at 110 Towle Farm Rd. Limited spots available on a first-come, first-served basis. This parking lot is VIP only, but it is not guaranteed for all VIP because limited spots available. No parking on the grass. Walk to Smuttynose after parking.


All other ticket holders can park at any of the parking lots at Towle Office Park at 1 Merrill Industrial Drive, just a short half-mile from Smuttynose. Rest assured, two 52-passenger shuttle buses will continuously loop from 9:45am to 5:30pm for convenient transportation.

 

Featuring:

  • Bella and Dark from Heat 101 as your event MCs

  • Over 30 Northeast hot sauce companies will be sampling all of their spicy products

  • Main Event: The SCI-FI Pepper Challenge

  • 9 Food Trucks

  • DJ playing 80's Music all day

  • hot pepper eating contests

  • hot wing contest

  • beer from Smuttynose fresh from their brewery on-site

  • Family friendly

  • Pet Friendly

  • Specialty local Seacoast crafters

  • Bouncy houses & Face Painting

  • Kids magic show!
Fair warning: plan ahead!

Tickets will sell out fast

2025 Beneficiaries

Blue Ocean
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2025 Sponsors

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Great Island
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2025 NEW ENGLAND HOT SAUCE FEST!