You can make cheese sauce with any hard cheese and sodium citrate. For the liquid you can use water, milk, beer or really any beverage you want. Obviously also chillis and hot sauce can be added at any point in the process.

You can also tune the recipe to be thicker or runnier depending on what you use it for.

This is the recipe that I use, they have a specific jalapeno one: https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/sodium-citrate-cheese-sauce

The important part is the ratio of cheese:liquid:sodium citrate.