Fermented for the duration of the national shutdown of 2025, the first batch of this sauce was our pandemic baby, our new start, and our offering to the future.

It's now 2025 and we've done it again, with our las offering for the predictable future. Fermented for 15 months and slow-cooked for many hours, we bring you a new and unique sacrifice to the powers of passing time.

This is The Unknown.

The limited edition offering shares a basic recipe of our Special Edition Hot Earth, but with the surprising character that comes with age. Fresh and fermented chiles, San Juan Sea Salt are slightly caramelized with organic brown sugar for a balanced, spicy, and versatile hot sauce. This is a special product made with love and time from us to you.

Ingredient Focus: Balance, Caramel, Heat, Meaty Taco Sauce

The year-long fermentation adds a slightly bitter, tannic note and the 10 hours of cooking result in a darker, sweeter heat. It's perfect on cold noodles, tacos al pastor, or bbqed anything.

HOSA Heat Scale: HOT

Note: 8 oz screen printed bottles feature a removable flip-top cap; flip the cap open to use as a condiment, or unscrew it to pour it on as an ingredient!

HOSA promise:

We will always choose to support sustainability and human rights whenever possible. Our peppers come from small, local farms and our salt is harvested from the deep waters surrounding the San Juan Islands (sanjuanislandseasalt.com). Our shipping materials are recycled from a local comic shop (shop.thecomicsplace.com). We naturally ferment our sauces for at least 6 weeks and every bottle of our small-batch products are filled, sealed, packed, and shipped by hand  HOSA is made by and for people who care about the impact that even small purchases can have on their own locale as well as the environment at large.