Hickory Mountain Sauces

Bring Home the Flavor That Brings Everyone to the Table.

NC'S BEST-KEPT SECRET SINCE MOONSHINE.

Got to be NCMade in North Carolina by one family.

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Why Hickory Mountain

A Little Goes A Long Way

Packed with Flavor, so you don't have to drown your food to make it delicious.

The Right Kind of Kick

Just enough heat to wake up your taste buds without overpowering the flavor.

Sauce It Your Way

If you can eat it, you can sauce it.

Patience is Flavor ✦ Small Batch NC ✦ Born on Hickory Mountain ✦ Good on Everything ✦ GET SAUCED ✦

Our Story

From Our Family to Your Table

Born in the backwoods of North Carolina’s Piedmont, our journey began on a little hill called Hickory Mountain—with a pot on the stove and a family gathered ’round the table.

For generations, this sauce has been part of our family. Our children grew up eating it, sharing it, and helping us perfect a recipe we hoped would be handed down for years to come. With every batch, we learned what we already knew in our hearts: good things take time. Patience is flavor.

Rooted in backwoods tradition and perfected over the years, Hickory Mountain Sauce has a character all its own. It’s bold, full of flavor, and has just the fiery kick you’ve been hankering for.

These days, there’s no shortage of sauces to choose from. But Hickory Mountain Sauce is not your ordinary sauce. It’s our family’s sauce—made from scratch, crafted with care, and bottled by hand. A recipe that has stood the test of time, shaped by patience and plenty of good meals.

We’re proud of where it came from, proud of how it’s made, and most of all, proud to share a flavor that is uniquely ours with your family.

Because to us, sauce isn’t just something you pour on your food. It’s something you create with, gather around, share with the ones you love, and pass along to the next generation.

And maybe that’s why folks have considered it North Carolina’s Best Kept Secret Since Moonshine. DON’T JUST COOK. CREATE.

HICKORY MOUNTAIN SAUCE

“Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
1 Corinthians 10:31

— Rebecca & Dickie

Patience is Flavor

How It's Made

Five honest steps. No shortcuts, no fillers — Just real North Carolina backwoods flavor.

01
Sourced

Sourced

Nothing in here you can't pronounce.

02
Slow-Simmered

Slow-Simmered

Simmered slow in small batches.

03
Taste-Tested

Taste-Tested

Tried before it’s bottled.

04
Bottled

Bottled

Filled and capped right here in North Carolina.

05
Get Sauced

Get Sauced

Marinate, Grill, Dip and supplement any recipe you have.

The Hickory Mountain family
Three generations, one recipe.

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Find Your Flavor

Two questions. Only one of them counts.

How much heat can you handle?

Alright. What are you putting it on?

Doesn't matter. It's good on all of it.

We tested this thoroughly. Repeatedly. Purely for research.

Your bottle:

Original Mountain Sauce

Original Mountain Sauce

The one that started it all. Slow-simmered in small batches, sweet on the front, hickory smoke on the back.

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Your bottle:

HOT Mountain Sauce

HOT Mountain Sauce

Everything you love about the Original, with a slow burn that shows up a second later.

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Still can't pick? Get both in the Mountain Combo