….Now Available..a Hot Sauce made with Trinidad Scorpion Peppers..Introduced by BUTCH T…click here…… https://pepperheads-hotsauces.com/admin/categories.php?cPath=56 …………………………………………………………………………………….Heartbreaking Dawns 1498 Trinidad Scorpion Sauce – Well here it is!! Get ready for the Ultimate journey of flavor and fire with their first release of 2011, “1498,” Heartbreaking Dawns Original Trinidad Scorpion Hot Sauce. They’ve taken a high percentage of fresh Trinidad Scorpion Peppers and balance them out with some Scotch Bonnets, creating a very high heat that drops off just before becoming TOO uncomfortable. To accent the burst of floral notes from the Scorpion Peppers they’ve created a full journey of flavors that includes Apricot, Blueberry and Carrot. This sauce reflects a full gallery of taste sensations, with a bold high heat, that will compliment every and any dish you can think up!!……….

1498, The year Columbus landed on Trinidad soil………………COMMENTS from the manufacturer….Happy New Year folks! As promised, this is a very special product for the 1st day of the new year. I’d apologize for missing last week, but it was Christmas, & I had a bit too much eggnog… This week, however, I thought ahead & wrote this review Friday. I’m getting New Year hammered tonight, so as you’re reading this on Scroturday, you can ponder where I am, if I’m dead, & if not, what bed I shall be crawling out of. (Note: the word bed encompasses beds, streets, dumpsters, drunk tanks, & truck beds)

Anyway, on to Heartbreaking Dawn’s 1498 Trinidad Scorpion Sauce which, to my knowledge, is the first widely available hot sauce predominantly featuring the Trinidad Scorpion Pepper! (I Googled a bit, and couldn’t find any others either) What a way to ring in the new year!…
First in the appearance category, I’d like to tell you about the bottle. Unfortunately, since the bottle I got was so new, there’s no label, so I went and got a label from Heartbreaking Dawns, which I threw up here for yall! The artwork is primarily black and white, and morbidly awesome, the sort of morbidly awesome I’d probably get in a tattoo. You have a skeleton drinking either blood or 1498 sauce, with the red goop falling through his jaw onto a rather attractive woman. I like the cleverness behind the ’1498′ name for the sauce, which is the year Christopher Columbus first landed on the island that is modern-day Trinidad. Back to my bottle, whose contents are as red as blood, but a spicy blood. Contained inside is what appears to be flecks of pepper, seed, and mash, a balance that looks like it gives flavor and texture, but maintains a lower viscosity than blood, and actually flows.

……I’ll be honest, at first I was scared of this bottle. Well, not scared, but a little nervous, and with good reason. Many of you may have heard of my last messy encounter with a Trinidad Scorpion pepper, which required a nasal dose of cheesecake on a stick. Well, here goes nothing. I pulled off the plastic seal and pull off the cap. I’m greeted by a smell which, from memory alone, actually makes me queasy. Mind you that’s not the sauce, that’s my former experience with the pepper. The best way I can describe the scent of this sauce is a robust kick in your nose testicles. This stuff smells GOOD. On to the actual sampling of the sauce. Wow. I’m kicked in the teeth with the piquancy of the Trinidad Scorpion pepper, but it has the best offset I’ve ever tasted in a hot sauce; the apricot preserves and other fruits and veggies come together to give it a taste that hints of warm jelly with the kick of a good hot sauce. Now I’m not a fan of fruit flavored sauces, and this still tastes amazing to me: that’s saying something. I’m going to go ahead and give the sauce the highest marks in both categories, a Notable in flavor, and a meltdown in the fire category. This sauce will be available at the HBD website January 1st.

Ingredients: Trinidad Scorpion peppers, Scotch Bonnet peppers, cider vinegar, apricot preserves, blueberries, carrots, honey, onion, soy sauce, sea salt, garlic, ginger, & white pepper.

From: New York…………………………………………………The Trinidad Scorpion – a very rare chile
By Jim (Habanero) Duffy

Have you ever been stung by a Scorpion? Now from the tropical Island of Trinidad comes the Trinidad Scorpion chile. So hot some say it is hotter than the Bhut Jolokia and Naga Morich. The Island of Trinidad is in the Caribbean northeast of Venezuela.

Trinidad Scorpion pods have a pebbly skin surface like a Bhut Jolokia or Naga Morich. But are more plump and sometimes have a little tail. The tail gives it the nickname Scorpion .It has a slight fruity and citrus flavor. Trinidad Scorpion Plants produce abundant pods. The pods ripen from green to orange to red.

In February 2009 I contacted the Agricultural Ministry Dept in Trinidad. Here is what they told me…

The island of Trinidad uses these for military grade tear gas and mace. Also they mix it in with Marine paint to keep barnacles from growing on the bottoms of boats. There are two other strains of the Trinidad Scorpion. The first one is called the Morouga and rarely has that little tail. And now recently discovered is the Yellow Trinidad Scorpion.

Right now we are growing the Trinidad Scorpion. In 2010 we will produce the Yellow variety. We currently have seeds for the Scorpion and will have fresh chiles at end of September 2009. Plants will be ready for sale in March/April 2010. Also producing seed stock for Orange Bhut Jolokia and Chocolate Bhut Jolokia. We grow our Trinidad Scorpion plants Hydroponically.

Plants grown for seed stock are isolated to avoid cross-pollination. We also have a full garden of other rare or hard to find organic vegetables. Find out more about our other produce at Selah Harvest!