About us and our sauce

Culinary Pyrotechnics is a Colorado-made hot sauce brand born in Denver from over 45+ years of combined restaurant/hospitality experience and one uncompromising philosophy: let the peppers speak for themselves. No oleo resin of capsaicin to alter the natural heat of the peppers. No extracts. Just minimal ingredients, real peppers, and the kind of confidence that comes from decades of cooking for a living.

"We make hot sauce the way it should be made. Simple. It has replaced every other hot sauce in our own fridges, and we think it'll do the same in yours."

Every batch is hand-crafted in small 50-gallon runs in a licensed Denver facility. These are sauces created and cooked by chefs - people who’ve spent careers in professional kitchens.

The idea sprouted in the ’90s. In 2024, it was finally seen through.

It started at the downtown Denver Brewpub - a chef making hot sauce because all they had was Tabasco and he wanted something more authentic, more versatile, and great with everything. But - it never went commercial.

Then 15 years later, working with his future business partner for his wedding, the batches started again. Something once experimental shifted when friends and family kept asking for more. A few years later they stopped just talking about it and committed.

The mission remains to make Damn Fine hot sauces so good that you want to use them all the time - on everything.