4 EXCITING FLAVORS!
"THE ORIGINAL" DATIL PEPPER AND NOW
HABAÑERO, DATIL MUSTARD & JALAPEÑO!
An original! Not like any hot sauce you have ever tasted! Cowgill's hot sauce is made with the Datil Pepper (pronounced dat'll as in "Dat'll do pig"). It has a sweet, smokey start with just the right amount of kick that does NOT overpower the taste of food but enhances it, like a great bottle of wine...and with four exciting, delicious flavors, you'll never have to reach for anything else. You'll throw out every bottle of "gimmicky" hot sauce you have because Cowgill's IS THE REAL DEAL!
ABOUT THE DATIL PEPPER
The datil is an exceptionally hot pepper, a variety of the species Capsicum chinense. Datils are similar in strength to habaneros but have a sweeter, fruitier flavor. Their level of spiciness may vary from 100,000 to 300,000 on the Scoville scale. Mature peppers are about 3.5 in long and yellow-orange in color. Datil peppers are cultivated throughout the United States and elsewhere, but the majority are produced in St. Augustine, Florida. Although local lore suggests datils were brought to St. Augustine by indentured workers from Minorca in the late 18th century, it is more likely they were brought from Chile around 1880 by a jelly maker named S. B. Valls. The pepper is almost identical to a west African pepper called the "fatalii" or "fatal." Datil peppers are used by the Minorcan community in many recipes. Many commercial manufacturers of datil pepper products are located in St. Augustine, which also has the annual Datil Pepper Festival.