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That Brooklyn Hot-Sauce Emporium Surpassed Its Kickstarter Goal — and It Should Open Next Month

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Last week, news broke about Heatonist, New York’s first hot-sauce tasting room, where there will even be a hot-sauce sommelier. Despite it seeming like perfect fodder for a story on The Onion, this concept is real and actually happening: The project has been successfully funded (actually, over-funded) on Kickstarter, meaning that 150 kinds of sauces from 50 makers will be on the market in just six weeks.

The store, which started as a mail-order service, is set to open April 18 on Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg. Thanks to the 360 backers — and their $26,817 — founder Noah Chaimberg can do things like create an algorithm to match people’s flavor preferences with specific sauces.

Time will tell which backer pledged $5,000 and won the award of getting Heatonist’s first hot sauce (“charred oak-barrel aged sauce made with peppers we’re growing in the tasting room’s back garden with seeds sourced from our hot sauce makers around the world”) named after him or her.

[Kickstarter]

That Brooklyn Hot-Sauce Emporium Surpassed Its Kickstarter Goal — and It