Berks County Eats

Rows of hot sauaces on display at the Chili Pepper Festival in Bowers, PA

Bowers Chile Pepper Festival

The hottest food festival in Berks County is the Chile Pepper Festival. Held annually the first Friday and Saturday in September at William DeLong Park in Bowers, the Chile Pepper Festival brings in vendors from across the region for samples and sales of their hot sauces, seasonings, pepper-infused foods and drinks, and more.

The event also features a jalapeno eating contest, live music and entertainment, and more.

There is no admission, but the sugggested donation in 2025 was $4.00.

Vendors

More than 100 vendors took part in the 2025 event. 2026 Vendors will be announced closer to the event.

2025 Vendor List

– 1 Love Jerk Hut
– 22 Peppers
– Angry Goat Pepper Co.
– Angry Irishman
– Black-Eyed Susan Spice
– Born to Hula
– Boyd’s Cardinal Hollow Winery
– Burning Hell Hot Sauce
– Butch’s Hot Stuff Hot Sauce
– Cactus Pete’s Homemade Jerky
– Carl’s Kickin’ Chili
– Casa de Jorge
– Chef’s Duds by Deb
– Chopper Foundation
– Christ Delong Church
– Chuck Wagon Old Fashioned Soda
– Cooney’s Mountain Mustard
– Crumbly Kitchen
– Cutco
– Deb’s Delights
– Defcon Sauces
– Earth Quake Spices
– Epic Pickles
– Faiya
– Fat Head Peppers
– Fracktured Sauce
– Gemini Grow
– Goat Head Sauces
– Goodlands Foods
– Got Chocolate
– Gourmet Crations
– Green Kamikozees
– Grumpy’s
– Habby Fruit
– Happy Tears Hot Sauce
– Hawg House
– Health Delight Cooking Oil and Peanut Butter
– Heckler Hot Sauce
– Hell’s Kitchen Hot Sauce
– Help Me Jesus Hot Sauce
– Holy Chipotle
– Holy Smoke
– Hot Graham Sauce
– Humming Hills Farms
– Inferno Phil’s Outpost
– It Is Spicy
– Jack’s Pepper Heist
– Jawndiments
– JD Gourmet
– Jelly Goat
– Jersey Barnfire
– Jersey Girl Hot Sauce
– Johnny Tornado
– Lee’s Homemade
– Live Hot Sauce
– Loving Imprints
– Lynd’s Ladys
– Major Flavor Seasonings
– Matt Hat Beef Jerky
– Monkey Business Flavored Peanuts
– Not Joe Mamma’s Hot Sauce
– Nutty Novelties
– Old Grumpy Mark’s
– One by One
– Papperdelles Pasta
– Peter Piper’s Pickle Palace
– Pickle Monster
– Pilsudski Mustard
– Philly Hot Box
– Popcorn Pit
– Queen Honey
– Revolutionary Hot Sauce
– Rising Smoke Sauceworks
– Rocky’s Hot Sauce
– Rolling Hill Farm
– Ruby’s Hottie Sauce
– Saratoga Peanut Buter
– Sauce Goddess Gourmet
– Schaeffer Catering
– Scotch Sauce
Scott’s Gyro Box
– ScoValley Hot Sauce
– SD Sauce
– Sh Mokin Taco
– Shot Gun Grill
– Smoke Jumper Hot Sauce
– Snacking LLC
Spectators Bar and Grill
– Spice Beast
– Spices of the Sun
Spuds
– St. Lucifer
– Steinmetz Farm
– Stitches N More
– Sundry Mornings
– Swarmbustin Honey
– Thunder Flash Hot Sauce
– TO’s
– Torchbearer Sauces
– Twisted Twins Salsa
– Two-Can Kettle Corn
– Whitehouse Station Sauce
– Yost Roast Concessions
– Your Chocolate Guys

Berks County Eats Review

Food & Festivals: Bowers Chile Pepper Festival

The heat was oppressive as we walked around William DeLong Park. In a cruel twist, Mother Nature had brought on a late-summer heat wave just in time for the Bowers Chile Pepper Festival. Just in case the peppers weren’t hot enough, the midday sun ensured that we were feeling the heat, and I cursed myself…

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