03/31/2025
The end of an era. After 11 exciting, fun, spicy, challenging years of selling sauces, meeting friends, and baptizing new chile heads...we closed the doors of the Heat on the Rocks shop at Mile High Flea Market.
Thank you to all the vendors (over 300) that worked with us over the years. You all helped make my vision a reality with your innovation and great products.
From Danny Cash our local Mentor Danny Cash Hot Sauce
to the Godfather, John Hard 's encouragement at the Fiery Foods Show in Albuquerque to grow my ideas in the industry CaJohn's Fiery Foods
to Completing the Ex*****on Station with Vic Clinco
to experiencing the feeling of near death after tasting 10M SHU Tincture with Smokin Ed and the PuckerButt Pepper Company
to Mikey Vee and team for your amazing work and outside of the box products
to our distributors Hot Shots, Hot Sauce Depot, and FAIRE for keeping our shelves full all these years
to all the great companies that have put their sauces in the mouths of hundred of celebrities and peaked the taste buds and curiosity of a generation of fire eaters through Hot Ones with Sean Evans and the HEATONIST team.
to our other local friends Merfs Condiments, Burns and Mccoy Sauce Company, Quarantine Project, Sauce Leopard, Sendy Sauce Hot Sauce, Horsetooth Hot Sauce, Seed Ranch Flavor Co., Flatiron Seasonings, Green Belly, PexPeppers Hot Sauce, Colorado Proud
to our customer favorites and our friends outside of Colorado Hell Fire Hot Sauce, Karma Sauce, Blazing Foods, LLC., Angry Goat Pepper Co., Hotter Than El Handcrafted Hot Sauces, Spicin Sauce, Sauced & Glazed LLC, HDHS,
COX Sauce, HYCH: Heat You Can Handle, Dave's Gourmet, Mad Dog, Blair's Death Sauce, and so many more....
THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!!
I Love You all and will miss this aspect of the business.
Keep it HOT Chile Heads 🌶 ❤️
Sincerely,
Chris Qball Mc Hugh