07/29/2026
🌶️🔥 DETROIT IS ABOUT TO TURN UP THE HEAT — AND BBQ DADDY IS COMING IN HOT! 🔥🌶️
This weekend, BBQ Daddy is fired up to be part of the 1st Annual Detroit Hot Sauce Festival inside the historic Masonic Temple’s Fountain Ballroom in Downtown Detroit!
📅 Saturday, August 1 | 10 AM–7 PM
📅 Sunday, August 2 | 10 AM–5 PM
📍 Masonic Temple — 500 Temple Street, Detroit
This first-of-its-kind Detroit festival will feature hot-sauce sampling, spicy-food challenges, specialty vendors, food trucks, hands-on classes, live entertainment, full-service bars for guests 21 and older, and plenty of fiery fun for the whole family. Children 10 and younger receive free admission.
🔥 TWO WAYS TO FIND BBQ DADDY!
🌶️ Inside the festival:
Stop by the BBQ Daddy vendor booth and sample our Michigan-made 865 BBQ Sauce lineup:
* Original — Sweet & Savory
* Hot Tempered — Smooth Chipotle Heat
* Barn Burner — Habanero Heat
We’ll have bottles available to take home, so come find the flavor that matches your heat level!
🍖 Outside the Masonic Temple:
The BBQ Daddy Food Truck will be serving our Southern-style smoked BBQ. Sample sauces inside, then head outside and taste them where they truly belong—on some real BBQ!
🏒🏆 AND WE’RE BRINGING SOME HOCKEYTOWN FIRE!
Our boy, four-time Stanley Cup champion Darren McCarty, will be joining us and helping promote BBQ Daddy and 865 BBQ Sauce! Detroit hockey, hot sauce and smoked BBQ—all together at one event. It doesn’t get much more Detroit than that!
The weekend schedule also includes spicy eating challenges, a League of Fire championship belt match, hot-sauce business and salsa classes, DJs, and live performances by Smells Like Flannel.
🎟️ General admission is listed at $10 before ticketing fees, with Silver and Gold VIP upgrade options available through the festival website. VIP upgrades require a general-admission ticket first.
Come meet the BBQ Daddy crew, grab some bottles of 865 BBQ Sauce, enjoy some BBQ outside and spend an unforgettable weekend turning up the heat in Downtown Detroit!
🔥 TENNESSEE HEAT. BBQ DADDY SWEET.
🔥 WHO’S YOUR DADDY?!
