Hot Sauce Festival
The Austin Chronicle 2020 Hot Sauce (At-Home) Festival
What began as a small hot sauce contest in 1990 has grown into the largest competition of its kind and one of Austin’s largest and best-known annual food events, drawing as many as 10,000 spectators and over 350 entries each year. Serving as a major fundraiser for the
Central Texas Food Bank,
The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival raised over 95,000 meals in 2019 alone and has raised 975,000 meals in its 29 year history. This year,
The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival is shifting gears as the safety of our hot sauce-loving fans is a top priority.
The sauce must go on! The highly anticipated 30th annual installment of our pepper-filled event will look a little different this year. In lieu of the in-person festival, we’re asking Austinites to join us at home for the 2020 Hot Sauce Festival benefiting the
Central Texas Food Bank on Sunday, August 30th.
The Austin Chronicle will host a
virtual event featuring winner announcements for commercial bottler categories, music, videos, and much more!
To experience the virtual event at home, participants can purchase their very own
Hot Sauce Tasting Kits, which include samplings from a variety of local bottlers, all-new
Hot Sauce merch, and more!
Do you have a special Hot Sauce memory to share? We want to hear your stories! Submit them
here and you may be featured in
The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Issue - on stands August 28.
Donate to the Central Texas Food Bank
Photo by David Brendan Hall
Photo Galleries from past Hot Sauce Festivals
Hot Sauce Awards Archives