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Loughborough · small batch · est. 2024

Bring the Riot

Small-batch hot sauce, fermented slow and bottled loud. Six flavours, one rule — flavour first, fire close behind.

House
Riot
Small batch · No.01
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How hot can you go?

2
~1,200 Scoville
House Riot

Our everyday workhorse. Bright, garlicky, a gentle warm hum — the bottle that lives next to the kettle.

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The range

Six bottles. Pick a fight.

Every batch is fermented for a fortnight, blended by hand and bottled in Loughborough. Free UK delivery over £25.

How it's made

Slow,
then loud.

No powders, no shortcuts, no thickeners pretending to be flavour. We start with whole chillies from growers we actually know, and we let time do most of the work.

Two weeks of wild fermentation builds the funk and the depth. Only then do we blend, bottle and label every run by hand — usually a few hundred bottles at a time.

01

Sourced

Whole chillies and produce from Midlands growers, picked ripe.

02

Fermented

14 days in the crock. Wild, slow, a little bit alive.

03

Blended

Balanced by taste, never to a spreadsheet. Acid, sweet, heat.

04

Bottled

Filled, capped and labelled by hand, batch number on every one.

The pantry.

drag · throw · they bounce

Word of mouth

Loud love.

★★★★★

"Smoke Signal has fully replaced ketchup in this house. The kids think I've lost it."

— Dani M, Leicester
★★★★★

"Ordered Riot No.6 as a dare. Ate the whole bottle in a week. I have no notes, only sweat."

— Tom R, Nottingham
★★★★★

"Proper flavour, not just heat for the sake of it. The fermented funk is unreal."

— Priya K, Loughborough
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New batches, daft recipes and the odd bottle giveaway. No spam, just heat.