Viper Spit Brands is a small, family run business consisting of owner Hal, wife Allison, daughter (who likes to name our peppers), and son (whose contribution to the company is playing on the farm while everyone else harvests peppers).
Hal’s background is in the culinary world. After 25 years in the hospitality industry (front and back of house), it was time to hang up the chef’s’ toque, managers cap, and occasional hard hat and figure out chapter two.
A co-worker had challenged Hal that he couldn’t make anything spicy. Not one to back away from a culinary challenge, Hal researched and created a fermented hot sauce recipe. It. Was. Awesome. And Viper Spit Brands was born, much to the confusion of the family, and ribbing from friends and former coworkers.
Viper Spit prides itself on being hyper-local to the Chicagoland area. Peppers are grown without pesticides at Piscasaw Gardens in Harvard (McHenry County). All sauces are fermented and processed in Grayslake (Lake County). Viper Spit also sources locally grown produce ingredients, when possible.
Craft Hot Sauces based in Northern Chicagoland 