When you reach for hot sauce, do you want peppers, or do you want vinegar? Swamp Dragon's inventor, Matt Beeson wanted peppers for sure. Vinegar, he thought, is too strong, too pungent, and it drowns out pepper flavor and often clashes with foods and beverages.

Beeson guessed that every hot sauce contained vinegar to preserve the product. His guess was right. The use of vinegar (acetic acid) is really more about food safety than flavor. Mold and bacteria cannot survive an acid bath, so that's why those sauces don't spoil. Alcohol kills mold and bacteria too, and is naturally found in liquors like bourbon and tequila. As far as Beeson was concerned, liquor is better than vinegar, and so Swamp Dragon was born!

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