ABOUT US

 How It All Started

Our passion for extreme hot peppers like the world’s hottest the Carolina Reaper, the Bhut Jolokia, the Scotch Bonnet and the Trinidad Scorpion had driven us to make our own hot sauces that we couldn’t find anywhere else.

We needed fire, flavour and uniqueness. 

What started out as a hobby nine years ago has now turned into a passion, and we established our new brand called Purple Tongue Hot Sauce in the winter of 2020.

Based out of Ajax, Ontario, we are a proud Canadian company that makes award winning hot sauces. Fire hot...extreme hot! It’s the pleasure of setting your mouth ablaze that gets us up every morning. And if it excites you enough as well, then we have the sauces that are sure to light you up!

Choose from 9 different flavours over four different heat levels including: 

 (Mild/Medium) Pineapple Soy (1st Place, Soy Cook-off 2022) 

(Medium) Carrot & Sun-Dried Tomato, and Stout Barbecue (Lethbridge 2023, 1st Place "Medium Category")

(Hot) Blueberry, Cilantro Lime, Gala Apple Lime, & multi-award winning Honey Garlic (Ottawa 2021, "King of Sauces-Best Overall", Apex Sauce Awards 2022 "Best Wing Sauce", & named Chatelaine Magazines Top 15 Best Hot Sauces In Canada for 2022) 

(Extreme) Ataulfo Mango, and it's award winning sister sauce, the Hotaufo Mango (London Heatwave 2023, 2nd Place "Extreme Category), which takes things to a super hot territory and is almost too hot for most chiliheads!

All of our sauces are gluten-free, mostly organic and have no artificial additives or preservatives.

We are just getting started, and are glad you have taken the time to check us out and see what we're up to! Please follow along with us as we grow not only our peppers, but our hot sauce business from the ground up!

What's In A Name

We get this question asked alot, "How'd you come  up with the name for your brand?".

With one look at our dog Sukocchi (aka Mr. CEO) and you will understand.

He has a purple tongue, which is a genetic characteristic of the Chow Chow dog breed, for which he is half. The other half being the Husky breed where he takes almost all of his look from.

A great hot sauce usually beats the pulp out of your tongue, so the name just fit perfectly. So there ya have it...Purple Tongue Hot Sauce!

Was a more fitting choice than the original name "Underbite Hot Sauce", cuz well, ya he has that too :)