Christchurch hot-sauce company caught in liquor law predicament over new chilli gin

Dr Eric Crampton
The Post
22 June, 2026

Christchurch's SpicyBoys make hot sauce. They’ve branched out into a chilli gin to sell alongside the sauce.

They can sell that gin at a couple of local farmers' markets, on special licences. What they cannot do, it turns out, is sell it online. Not because anyone thinks their gin is dangerous, but because the law has no category for a hot-sauce company that also makes gin.

To read the article on The Post website, click here.

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