Pepper's Tejas Tears Habanero Chile Sauce, Winston's Hot Pepper SauceĬommercial Bottlers People's Choice Red Sauceįirst Two Hot Mamas Salsa Co. Honorable Mention: Big Daddy's High on Fire Hot Sauce (Houston), Fredericksburg Farms – Roasted Tomatillo Pepper Sauce (Fredericksburg), Sgt. Third Austin Slow Burn – Habanero Jelly With Rosemary Second Tears of Joy Hot Sauce Shop – August in Austin Hot Sauce* – Pecan Pepper Jam (Cedar Park), Fredericksburg Farms – Raspberry Peach Chipotle Glaze (Fredericksburg), Texas-Texas – Black Bean & Corn Salsa Pepper Sauce Honorable Mention: Tacodeli – Salsa Doña, Austin Jam Co. Second Pepper Creek Farm – Island Flame Glaze (Belton) – Chile Verde* Special Varietyįirst Tears of Joy Hot Sauce Shop – Tequila Lime Hot Sauce* Pepper's El Chipotle Hot Sauce – Smoked Tomato Green Sauce Honorable Mention: Zoey Samad, Paul Peterson, Tim Hudgeons (Cedar Park), Jonathan Cherry, MaryBeth Campisi, Rick Olmos, Kevin Hedtke, Tony Grasso, Cyrus Sanchez, Ed O'Neill, Michelle Ermlichįirst Fredericksburg Farms – Watershed Ranch Roasted Chipotle Salsa Third Robert Mayberry* (UT campus executive chef) Honorable Mention: Jeff & Tina Hall (Hearne), Magda Alanis, John Unger, Shane Pickett, Karen Kessel, Thomas Zavaleta, Monica Vega (Round Rock), Eric Castro, Kala Uprety, Linda Steinhardt (Cedar Park) Special Varietyįirst Jill Lewis (owner, Austin Slow Burn) Wilder, Jamie Rocha, Mark Choban, Miguel Alvarez, Nathan Beels, Lance Brauckman, Amy Zeinner, Rita Huffman, Camille Gray (Georgetown), Jacob Serda, Traci Canales, Brian Skokowski Green Sauce Honorable Mention: Shawn Muncy, Lisa Brooks, Kelly Robinson, Laura Martinez-McIntosh, Kala Uprety, Deborah Vogt, P.D. Honorable Mention: Hilton Garden Inn – Downtown, Uncle Billy's Brew & Que, Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant Honorable Mention: ZuZu Handmade Mexican Food, El Caribe Mexican Restaurant Special Variety Honorable Mention: El Caribe Mexican Restaurant, La Cocina de Consuelo, Maria Maria La Cantina, Gage Hotel Green Sauce Look for Blumer's new show, Glutton for Punishment, to feature a segment about his experience as a celebrity judge at the Chronicle Hot Sauce Contest some time after the program debuts in the spring of 2009. Pepper's Tejas Tears Habanero Chile Sauce. Pepper's, Ana's Salsa, Aztexan, and Texas-Texas.įood Network host Bob Blumer and his crew made the most of their stay in Austin, visiting Jill and Kevin Lewis at home while they created their entries for the individual competition and stopping in at the Tears of Joy store Downtown to sample some of the myriad fiery products in owner Brian Rush's inventory while J.P. Among the commercial bottlers, contest newcomers Gourmet Country Farm and Fredericksburg Farms garnered first-place trophies, although those sassy Two Hot Mamas and Brian Rush of Tears of Joy swept the most prizes, with a few left over for Austin Slow Burn, Tacodeli, Sgt. The father-daughter team of Mattie and Russell Lewis (no relation to Jill and Kevin) came in second. We noticed some new names amid the winners in the individual categories but also noted that Austin Slow Burn owners Jill and Kevin Lewis chose to compete against each other with special variety sauces, with Jill taking home the first-place glass this year. Campus-area newcomer Cuatros showed well, as did a new mobile barbecue outfit called the Smokin Rose of Texas BBQ. The restaurant category saw mostly repeat winners with Sazón, Curra's Grill, Torchy's Tacos, Serranos, and Iguana Grill developing or adding to their established winning streaks. In fact, some cloud cover and a cool afternoon breeze inspired most of the crowd to linger until the announcement of the winners at the end of the day. The total number of salsas entered in all three categories came to more than 500, there were plenty of salsas under the tasting tent, and everyone survived. Fortune smiled on us again this year, however. This year, there was a potential triple threat: a record-busting string of 100-degree-plus days, a nationwide salmonella scare involving the core ingredients to fresh salsa, and a last-minute health department ruling that prohibited serving any homemade salsas to the public for the first time in the history of the event. Every summer there is some looming circumstance that causes the organizers of The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Contest a certain degree of preshow anxiety.
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