Tabasco sauce is the brand name for a hot sauce

Hot sauce

Hot sauce, chili sauce or pepper sauce refers to any spicy sauce made from chili peppers and other ingredients.-Ingredients:There are many recipes for hot sauces - the common ingredient being any kind of peppers. A group of chemicals called capsaicinoids are responsible for the heat in chili peppers...

 produced by US

United States

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-based McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana

Avery Island, Louisiana

Avery Island is a salt dome best known as the source of Tabasco sauce. Located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States, it is about three miles inland from Vermilion Bay, which in turn opens onto the Gulf of Mexico...

. Tabasco sauce is made from tabasco pepper

Tabasco pepper

The tabasco pepper is a variety of chili pepper species Capsicum frutescens. It is best known through its use in Tabasco sauce, followed by peppered vinegar....

s (Capsicum frutescens var. tabasco), vinegar

Vinegar

Vinegar is a liquid substance consisting mainly of acetic acid and water, the acetic acid being produced through the fermentation of ethanol by acetic acid bacteria. Commercial vinegar is produced either by fast or slow fermentation processes. Slow methods generally are used with traditional...

, and salt

Salt

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, and aged in white oak

White oak

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 barrels for three years. It has a hot, spicy flavor. McIlhenny Company is in its fifth generation as a family business

Family business

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, and all shareholders inherited

Inheritance

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 their stock

Stock

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 or were given it by a living family member.
Tabasco sauce was first produced in 1868 by Edmund McIlhenny

Edmund McIlhenny

Edmund McIlhenny was an American businessman and manufacturer who invented Tabasco brand pepper sauce.-Origin:Born in Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1815, Edmund McIlhenny moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, around 1840, finding work in the Louisiana banking industry...

, a Maryland

Maryland

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-born former banker who had moved to Louisiana

Louisiana

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 around 1840.