THUNDER BAY -- To celebrate their collaboration on a hot sauce, Sleeping Giant Brewery and Heartbeat Hot Sauce hosted an event Thursday night which mimicked the Youtube interview show, "Hot Ones".
A seven member panel and more than 100 attendees tested their tongues on some of the spiciest chicken wings in the world.
After their collaborative hot sauce the Pineapple Habernero was chosen to be on the Youtube interview show, "Hot Ones" the crew at Sleeping Giant Brewery and Heartbeat Hot Sauce knew they wanted to give people a taste of the action.
The Youtube show pits celebrities up against a lineup of increasingly hotter chicken wings, so alongside a panel of seven, the hundreds in attendance were encouraged to eat the 10 wings of death to see if they could complete the challenge.
Damien Gilbert of Epica Pictures was on the panel and was struggling throughout the event, he said he may have underestimated the power of spice.
“The struggle was real tonight,” Gilbert said. “I underestimated how hot it could get, you know, once we got to No. 5 it just amplified and it just got worse from there.”
Gilbert said he thought the spice would taper down, but it didn’t get any better.
Sleeping Giant head brewer Kyle Mulligan was the MC for the evening and was also partaking in the wing eating.
He wanted to emphasize how important it is for local businesses to work together and the benefits that come with collaboration.
“I think that it is one of the most important things because you get to support your neighbor, and they support you. You get to meet some good people and you get to meet some very creative people,” Mulligan said.
“You get to do a lot of things you wouldn’t normally do and you get to expand what can happen in our own city.”
A few people had some interesting strategies to try and quell the heat, with a variety of different fluids being consumed.
If anyone is wondering what it feels like to eat some of the hottest wings in the world, attendee Adam Mace has a good explanation.
“If you have something that’s a little spicy, then you wait about a minute and it comes and slaps you in the face. It keeps slapping you for another 10 minutes and then eventually it only slaps you once every five minutes or so…but it just reminds you that it is there for a while.”
With their bellies full of beer and chicken wings the many in attendance went home happy and now have the answer to the burning question, how hot is too hot?
(TBT News)
