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Sweet Whiskey Heat, by the bottle

Six flavours, one small kitchen in Fenelon Falls. Every bottle is 5 oz (150 ml), fermented in barrels for 14 to 21 days, and filled, capped and labelled by hand. When a batch sells out, it stays sold out until the next one is ready — no rushing a ferment.

The lineup

Pick your heat

All six sauces are gluten-free, keto-friendly and vegetarian, and every one is sweetened the same way — a dash of honey and Stevia In The Raw, never sugar syrups. And for the record: there's no whiskey in any of them. The name is a promise about the smooth burn, not the ingredient list.

Back 40 Original Blend hot sauce bottle

Original Blend

Heat · Medium-Hot

The one that started everything — and the Sweet Whiskey Heat that took Best in Show. Scotch bonnets up front, sweet bell peppers rounding out the edges, and that slow fermented depth underneath it all.

$125 oz / 150 ml Buy Now
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Back 40 Xtra Hot hot sauce bottle

Xtra Hot

Heat · Hot

The Original's blend with the ratio swung hard toward the bonnets. Every bit of the flavour, roughly double the consequence. It sells out first for a reason.

$125 oz / 150 ml
Back 40 Mild Jalapeño hot sauce bottle

Mild Jalapeño

Heat · Mild

Our gentle one — bright, green jalapeño flavour with just enough warmth to wake a plate up. The mild entry that brought home first place at the CK Hot Sauce Expo, and the bottle that empties fastest at family tables.

$125 oz / 150 ml Buy Now
Back 40 Xtra Hot Jalapeño hot sauce bottle

Xtra Hot Jalapeño

Heat · Hot

The jalapeño with its gloves off. All that fresh green-pepper character, fermented the same patient way and blended to a heat that makes itself known. Made for eggs, tacos and anything off the grill.

$125 oz / 150 ml Buy Now
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Back 40 Cinnamon hot sauce bottle

Cinnamon

Heat · Medium

Warm baking spice folded right into the ferment. It sounds like dessert and behaves like hot sauce — unreal on wings, ribs and anything that comes off the smoker.

$125 oz / 150 ml
Back 40 Extreme Cinnamon hot sauce bottle

Extreme Cinnamon

Heat · Extreme

The small-batch heavyweight. Everything people love about the Cinnamon, turned up until it pushes back — our hottest bottle, made in the smallest runs, and priced like it.

$155 oz / 150 ml Buy Now
14–21 daysBarrel fermentation
5 oz / 150 mlEvery bottle, hand-filled
Gluten-freeAlso keto-friendly & vegetarian
Honey + steviaSweetened, never syrupy
A bottle of Back 40 sauce being drizzled over a sizzling skillet dish
Why it tastes different

Fermentation does what vinegar can't

A lot of hot sauce is peppers drowned in vinegar and bottled the same week. Ours sits in barrels for two to three weeks first, and that ferment builds the deep, rounded flavour the awards keep noticing — the heat arrives with something to say, not just something to prove.

Darby makes every batch herself, by hand, in our Fenelon Falls kitchen. Small batches mean the flavour stays consistent — and they mean when it's gone, it's gone until the next barrel is ready.

Proof, not promises

The awards behind the bottles

  • Best in ShowEternal Flame Awards 2023 · Heatwave Hot Sauce Expo, London ON
  • Best Sauce — Hot CategoryEternal Flame Awards 2023 · Sweet Whiskey Heat
  • 1st Place — MildCK Hot Sauce Expo 2023
  • 2nd Place — Best Nacho SauceApex Sauce Awards 2023

Buying for a store or a crew?

Cases and skids move through our wholesale program — or find us at an event and buy off the table.

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