Ferment & Co

Food & drink

Instagram

10 weeks

2026

Hot sauce, one strange pairing at a time

A small-batch hot sauce maker. We built a weekly 'would you try it' pairing series.

Red hot sauce drizzled over a scoop of vanilla ice cream

Before and after

Followers

1.4K

27K

Monthly reach

8K

880K

Save rate

0.6%

7.1%

The brief

The brief

Great product, no story online. They wanted stockists to notice them.

What we made

What we made

'Would you try it?' pairings, behind-the-scenes from the fermenting room and creator taste tests.

The result

The result

Three regional delis and a national grocer got in touch after the series went round on Instagram.

Small-batch hot sauce bottles on a deli shelf with fresh chillies
A maker labelling hot sauce bottles beside jars of chilli mash

“Hot sauce on ice cream got 40,000 shares. We were not ready.”

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