Kentucky Made with Pride: Pops Pepper Patch |
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A gift of pepper infused vinegar to Bob "Pops" Kamman upon his retirement in 1993 is where it all began. Someone's failure to remove a price tag resulted in today's commercial food processing facility.
The first year, Pops, an avid gardener, had a copious amounts of peppers, herbs and time. Armed with gourmet gift bottles, he stuffed, filled and corked various infused vinegars. With a bumper crop of jalapenos, they decided to make a unique hot sauce, one where they smoked and dried the peppers over shag bark hickory, then finely ground it to a powder, and the chipotle sauce was born. When the habaneros began ripening, they did the same thing, smoking the chilies for up to 5 days to achieve a truly unique flavor.
They have since relocated to larger facilities twice and now process more than 50 products for clients in three states.
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