About Us

 

Hi. I’m Renae Bunster 👋 and I make things that taste pretty bloody good.

Bunsters started out making hot sauce, because in Australia, good hot sauce didn't exist yet.
But now we also make flavoured vodkas, because the drinks I wanted also didn't exist.

Same fun brand. Same obsession with flavour.

It started with hot sauce (and a bit of a problem)...

Back in 2011, I went backpacking through Central America and fell completely in love with their fresh hot sauces. Full of fruit and veg and they weren't just hot for the sake of it. 

When I got home to Perth, Western Australia, I went looking for some. But nothing hit the spot. EVERY.SINGLE.HOT.SAUCE was too salty, too vinegary, too sweet, too hot, too weak, too fake, or just another version of Tabasc-NO.

I had to start making my own...

Friends who never even liked hot sauce suddenly starting using it on everything. Eggs, BBQs, leftovers. Bloody everything. They started kicking down my door to buy it and before I knew it, legends from all over Australia were ordering it. 

Turns out I wasn't the only one looking for a hot sauce that actually tasted good.

Then the world agreed...

In 2017, I sent a crap tonne of my sauce to the U.S.A. and then “Shit the Bed” went viral. It became the number one best selling hot sauce on Amazon USA.

A year later, my hottest sauce, Black Label, was selected to be featured on a season of Hot Ones. We were the first non North-American sauce ever on the show. Natalie Portman and Jeff Goldblum loved it. That still blows my mind. Gordon Ramsay even loved it when he tried it on his TV show Food Stars Australia.

From my kitchen table to a global cult brand, Bunsters became known for one thing above all else. Flavour first and a heap of laughs, a close second.

So why the Vodka?

Because one day I found the exact same problem in the bottle-o. After power walking round every aisle everything left me uninspired. Too sugary. No flavour. Too complicated. Too bloating. Too sickening. Too same-same 😔 So I did what I always do when something annoys me. I made my own.

Same rules, different field...

Our flavoured vodkas follow the same rules as our hot sauces.

Big flavours.
No fake crap.
Not too sweet. 
No funky aftertaste.
Only the best ingredients.

They’re made to be shared with mates, poured without instructions, and enjoyed without having to 'learn' how to like them, or wince as it goes down.

Hot sauce taught us to walk, so we could run amok with vodka.

Satisfaction guaranteed 

Give us a bash. You genuinely won’t regret it. But if you do, we’ll give your money back. No questions asked.

Life’s too short for bad drinks and another crappy hot sauce. 

Keep in touch

Lets be mates

 

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