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Pineapple, Late Heat

Sweet and faintly burnt on the front of the tongue, smoke behind it, and heat that waits until you have swallowed.


What it is

Every chile smoked before it goes in the jar, then three weeks under a salt brine, then blended with pineapple caramelized until the edges go dark and a ripe mango raw. The fruit goes in at the blender rather than the ferment, which is why it still tastes like fruit: twenty days of lactobacillus would have eaten that sugar and taken the caramel with it.

In the order it arrives

  1. 1Caramelized pineapple
  2. 2Smoke
  3. 3Heat, arriving late and staying

Put it on

  • Carnitas and any taco with pork in it
  • Grilled chicken thighs
  • A pork shoulder sandwich
  • Roasted sweet potato
Heat
Medium. Pours rather than dots.
Body
Thick. Falls off a spoon in a stream.

Contains no declared allergens.


Batches

Every jar, on the record