We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Sam Holder . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Sam below.
Sam, appreciate you joining us today. How did you come up with the idea for your business?
When my girlfriend and I Bella McCowan started dating last summer we realized early on that we shared a love for hot sauce & cooking. I had a garden going with different varsities of hot peppers, and I really wanted to impress her with some homemade sauce. I’ll admit it wasn’t picture perfect sauce, but it did the trick and impressed her just enough! I started tinkering with recipes and we would taste test each batch. Truth be told after a short few days of this we landed on our apple peach sauce and we knew it was something special. After guaging interest around our small beach town over the next month we decided that we could actually sell this stuff and have some fun. So we did just that! We started making hot sauce and merch, and the support around town was overwhelmingly encouraging. Here we are 8 months in still taking it day by day not knowing what’s next, but making better sauce than ever and having fun selling it to stores up and down the east coast!
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
I am the most proud of how our hot sauce process has gotten more efficient while improving quality. It’s been really cool to watch over the last 5-6 months especially!
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
Bella’s resiliency through the fda approval process was remarkable to watch from the outside in. While we did it together she totally crushed it and grabbed the bull by the horns to get us over the finish line. Without her hard work m we wouldn’t be in a single store.
How’d you meet your business partner?
I “slid” in her dm’s after she was my bartender!
Contact Info:
- Website: https://hooppolecreekhotsauce.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hooppolecreekhotsauces?igsh=MXB4OWZzODZrNzIw&utm_source=qr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552944422740&mibextid=LQQJ4d