NEW RELEASE ALERT: HotChup Sauce

We're super excited to announce the release of our new sauce HotChup! Everything you thought you knew about ketchup, but better! HotChup is a rich velvety tomato ketchup with a cheeky habanero kick, and an unexpected moreish edge. It’s the perfect dipping sauce. 🍅 🌶️ ❤️

It's been a labour of love to get the recipe spot on, I've been balancing and fine tuning it to perfection. Can't wait for everyones reactions when they taste it! 😋

Here's a peak behind the scenes of the label design for our new HotChup sauce! We thought you might like to see all the hard work and passion that goes in to every detail of a new release.🍅 🌶️ 💥

Mic's son Jude Wejchert, developed his initial concept pencil sketches based on Mic's request of a "tomato head full of attitude" and taking his own inspiration from ancient carvings and images of Tonatiuh, the Aztec God of the Sun, Fertility and Sacrifice. He then spent his Transition Year work experience with Steve Simpson, where Steve helped him to further refine his sketch to flesh out his design. Can you see the sun ray icons and stylised vines around the tomato? 🌞

From here Steve took the pencil sketch as inspiration to develop his production ready design to fit in with the Mic's Chilli style, work on the colour scheme, and added a fantastic neck label and cheeky Quetzalcóatl illustration to the rear.

Big shout out to Jude, Steve and Saray Elena @stevesimpson / @jitterbug.design who collaborated on the label design. It's another cracker, thanks so much! 🥰

I was 16 when I first discovered hot sauce.

As an Irish lad growing up in the 1980s and 90s, the closest I’d come to heat had been the spice burger that would regularly feature in Friday-night runs to the chipper.

All that changed in 1994 on a family trip to Belize, where I fell in love… with chillies. Every table I sat at had a bottle of sauce on it, which, of course, I took as a personal challenge to try every single one!  

My return home came at a cost to my taste buds, though, as everything now seemed so bland and boring. So, I headed to the kitchen and spent hours, days, weeks, and years perfecting my own sauces to satisfy my hunger for the stuff.

And so Mic’s Chilli was born in 2010, when my first sauce, Inferno Original, made it onto Irish dinner tables, finally offering heat-hungry tongues something to talk about. And (gratefully) they did…

Year on year, it became increasingly obvious that I wasn’t alone in my search for spice, and more than a decade later, we now have 15 sauces that range from mild-hit-of-heat to blow-your-socks-off-burn, which are available across the globe.

Our sauces are lovingly handmade in Wicklow, Ireland from the finest chillies the world has to offer, and contain no artificial flavourings, colourings, preservatives, or other nasties. Our sauces are wholesome and delicious, and your granny would approve – cause she’s got a bottle herself!

Hope you enjoy our range,

Mic