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The Aves Spice Company

Maker and purveyor of unique, fermented hot sauces with an avian flair.

We're two lovebirds brought together by a shared passion for birds and spicy food. Together, we make delicious, fermented hot sauces that are as unique in flavor as the birds they help protect. Our company donates a portion of its profits to promote bird conservation and protect the habitats that they live in. and let your taste buds take flight!

12/01/2021

🎶 🎄 "On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
Aves Spice Co. hot sauce!" 🔥🌶

Or, isn't that how the lyrics go? That's how we sing it! 😉

With the upcoming holidays, we're having a huge SALE! Take 10% off your entire purchase!

Sale ends 12/31/2021: use code "TURTLEDOVE10"

10/16/2021

Last time at the !🥺 Come out and get early or something to up your 🎃 and ! We have a limited return of our winter sauce, the . Get it for it disappears 👻!

08/14/2021

FARMER'S MATKET BURGER 🍔🍔🍔! This past week I used our , the 🔥, a tart cherry 🍒 sauce, and used it to make a burger 🍔 with products from many of the vendors at the . The burger was 50/50 lamb and beef from , then greens from and tomatoes from . I made the hot sauce into an and then fried, thinly sliced garlic 🧄 from . Set the burger on top of all that, then melted some aged with blue cheese 🧀 veins running through it from .

What I'm trying to say 😅 is that you can make food from the folks at the , they're here 7-1 every Saturday morning (and so is ). So stop by and try some of the other offerings!

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07/24/2021

It’s a beautiful day… for hot sauce! 🌞🔥🌶 We’re at today from 11am-4pm, so join us, grab some hot sauce, and enjoy the beautiful, calm, and cool botanic gardens!

07/04/2021

Happy birthday 🇺🇸! We at The Aves Spice Company wish our flock and everyone a happy and safe ! And if your ♨️, 🥧, 🍺 or other 🍹need some added 🎆🎇 this holiday, just add a bit of our to start the 🎉!

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07/03/2021

Join us at the Palatine Hometown Fest in downtown Palatine today until 8pm! Try our newest hot sauce, the wonderful Scarlet Tanager, featuring fresh strawberries 🍓 and tart rhubarb! Summertime in a bottle 🌞 See you there! 😎

07/02/2021

🚨 NEW HOT SAUCE ALERT 🚨
It's summertime and the livin' is easy, especially with our NEW fermented hot sauce, The Scarlet Tanager! 🔥🌶🔥 A sweet, spicy, and spectacular addition to these long summer days ☀️ Packed with fresh strawberries 🍓 and tart rhubarb, this hot sauce also features a unique heat that slowly builds from the inside out. Great for BBQ or ice cream alike, this sauce is summer in a bottle 🌞

Pick up a bottle TODAY at the Rockford City Market from 3:30pm-8:30pm or order online: https://www.avesspice.com/s/shop

This is a limited time batch... so be sure to pick up some Scarlet Tanager before it flies off!

06/29/2021

The early bird gets the worm... uhhh... err... breakfast sandwich! Fly over to OpenDoor Coffee to try their new breakfast eggwich made with our fan-favorite fermented hot sauce, The Canada Goose! ❤🔥🌶 We tried their brand new turkey sausage eggwich this morning and it is DELICIOUS, along with the perfect amount of heat! 😋 And don't forget to get some coffee, too 😉

06/23/2021

Return of the KING…fisher! 🥳
We’re finishing a HUGE batch of our fan favorite, “The Kingfisher” 😍 our mango-horchata fermented hot sauce 😋 We’re bottling tomorrow and we’ll have plenty available to pick up at the on Friday (3:30pm-8:30pm) and at the Palatine Farmers Market on Saturday (7am-1pm). See you there!

06/22/2021

Humans might not have fancy plumage like birds 😮 but you can still wear your love for with our brand new merchandise! 🤩

We've got t-shirts, tank tops, sweaters, tote bags, and more! 🥳 Check out the full selection at https://the-aves-spice-co.creator-spring.com/

06/21/2021

The Bird Behind the Label... featuring The Motmot! 🦜🔥🌶

A true summertime favorite 🌞 “The Motmot” is a fruity, bright, and peppery hot sauce 🔥 It’s colorful and flamboyant, just like the bird after which it is named. “The Motmot” is a horchata-based fermented hot sauce, and features all the sweet and tropical fruits that you could ever wish for, including pineapple, mango, passionfruit, guava, and more! 🍍🥭🍊🍋 It’s the perfect finishing sauce for grilling 🔥 and we even add a few drops of it to our margaritas and beer 🍻

Now for the bird… “The Motmot” label (designed by the talented Ethan Kimberling) features the Turquoise-browed Motmot (Eumomota superciliosa), an absolutely stunning bird 🤩 As they fly, they show a flash of turquoise among their flight feathers; and, most notably, they have a long, bright blue tail with two central feathers that have black-tipped turquoise rackets at the end 😮

Turquoise-browed Motmots are social birds that exhibit colonial nesting 🥚 Some colonies number over 100 pairs, but most colonies have about 10-20 pairs. Motmots typically nest in burrows excavated in earth banks or low cliffs.

Turquoise-browed Motmots have a relatively small range, covering the Yucatán Peninsula of eastern Mexico and northernmost Guatemala, the Pacific slope of Middle America, and from southern Mexico south to northwest Costa Rica. This particular Motmot species is also the national bird of both El Salvador and Nicaragua, where it is known as "Torogoz" and "Guardabarranco" respectively.

So, as summer kicks off, be sure to pick up a bottle of The Motmot today: https://www.avesspice.com/ 🔥🌶🔥 Don’t forget—with every bottle of hot sauce that you purchase from the Aves Spice Company, we donate part of our profits to bird conservation work. Currently, we are partnered with the International Crane Foundation—so buy some hot sauce and save some birds! 🔥🌶 = 🐦🦉🦅🦆🦜🦚🦃🐓

Artwork credit: Ethan Kimberling
Photo credit: Katja Schulz

06/20/2021

Why did the pepper miss the target? 🤔
Because it didn't HABANERO! 🤣
We love dad jokes and we also love our dads! ❤️ Happy Father's Day!

P.S. - If you forgot a gift for your dad, you can always order hot sauce! Check it out at https://www.avesspice.com/

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http://www.avesspice.com/

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About Us

We are the Aves Spice Company.

Brought together by a love for birds and good food, we seek to share our culinary creations inspired by avifauna. Birds of a feather flock together—and you’ll flock to our hot sauces!

Our mission: Our sauces are wild, bold, and full of personality, like our feathered friends. Bringing together unique ingredients, we ferment our sauces to bring out rich, deep, one-of-a-kind flavors without adding any preservatives. Plus, a portion of our profits go to avian conservation.