Gifts for Hot Sauce Collectors

A hot sauce collector has opinions about acidity, fermentation time, and whether fresh or dried peppers make a better base. Their refrigerator door is a curated archive. They know the difference between a Louisiana-style vinegar sauce and a fermented mash, and they're skeptical of anything that leads with Scoville count before flavor. The gifts that land are either bottles they haven't found yet or tools for what they've been threatening to make themselves.