Perhaps they would have been more accurate to have called the potion peppered sherry, but we can't rewrite history. Stationed on Bermuda at what was then one of the largest and most strategic Naval Dockyards in the western hemisphere, the sailors shared their favourite flavour with locals who took it up with feverish fervor. Today, nearly every sideboard in Bermuda is graced by a cruet of sherry peppers. It is the Bermuda hot sauce and pre-dates the hot sauce craze by nearly a century. Commercially produced Bermuda Sherry Peppers commenced when flamboyant cousins Yeaton and Robbie Outerbridge had an idea back in 1964.
Requests come from all over the world for the unique sherry peppers sauce.
A gentleman in Brazil orders a half dozen of the chef's size Original Sherry Peppers every few months.