The spark
Founder Dexter Bradshaw batch-cooks his own 'Sweet Heat' hot sauce at the Alexandria restaurant where he tends bar, dreaming about a business around his recipes.
Our story
Every mission has a muse.
Bradshaw Sauce Co. is a small-batch hot sauce company from Alexandria, Virginia. This is how it left the launchpad.
The rainy Thursday
A spring rain, an offered ride home, a first date the next evening. Co-founder Felicia becomes the reason the dream turns real. 'Without her influence, her passion, or her strength there would never be a Bradshaw Sauce Co.'
2020 · Starting slowly
Bradshaw Sauce Co. begins in a commercial kitchen. Small batches, by hand, no factories, no assembly lines.
2022 · The monthly release
Scarlet Snake launches the Hot Sauce Release of the Month program in January. A new small-batch mission ships every month since.
Year six · Comet
The sixth-anniversary super hot launches: 7 Pot Brain Strain meets Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. The catalog passes 40 sauces launched.
“I'd like to think that the hot sauce brought us together... a moment that I would like to share with all of you in every bottle.”
The crew's own dogs
The astronaut dog on every label is family. So are the sauces: Osita is named for Jaume, the household's “Little Bear,” who shows you her sweet side before bringing an adorable amount of chaos. The kitchen has a porter BBQ named for Lenny, too.
Made on Earth
Every bottle is handcrafted in small batches in a commercial kitchen by real people, not machines. No factories. No assembly lines. Just love, care, and a lot of flavor missions completed by hand.
Taste the missions