COCKBURN
Three bottles of Cockburn Scotch bonnet hot sauce on a wooden farmers market table beside a bowl of Scotch bonnet peppers. The label shows a hand-drawn marker sketch of the admiral before the burning White House, the flames cut away to the red sauce inside.
Scotch Bonnet Hot Sauce · Washington, D.C.

Cockburn

The sauce that burned Washington. Named for the British admiral who set the White House alight in 1814. We just kept the fire going.

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Hand-drawn marker sketch of Admiral Cockburn from the waist up, after the 1817 John James Halls portrait, the White House behind his shoulders and red flames rising from it.
On the bottle, the flames aren't printed. They're cut out of the label, so the sauce itself supplies the fire.
24.08.1814

The night the President's House burned

On a summer evening in 1814, British troops marched into Washington. With them rode Rear Admiral George Cockburn, who had spent the war raiding the Chesapeake and had little patience for American pride.

By midnight the Capitol was ablaze and the President's House was gutted. Dolley Madison had fled that afternoon, and a portrait of George Washington was saved from the walls on the way out.

Legend says the admiral then had a newspaper that mocked him destroy every letter "C" in its type, so it could never print his name again. We've printed it on every bottle.

Cockburn Scotch bonnet hot sauce with a black wax cap. The label shows a hand-drawn marker sketch of the admiral before the White House, and the flames are die-cut so the red sauce shows through.
The Sauce

Heat from the Caribbean

Before he ever saw Washington, Cockburn learned his trade in the West Indies. The recipe follows his route.

  1. 1809 He leads the naval side of the capture of Martinique, and Parliament thanks him for it.
  2. 1812 War with America. He's sent to Bermuda, and from there to raid the Chesapeake.
  3. 1814 Washington.

So the base is the Caribbean's signature pepper, the Scotch bonnet: fruity, then fierce. A splash of dark rum, allspice and lime finish it. Made in small batches.

Pepper
Scotch bonnet
With
Dark rum, allspice, lime
Size
5 fl oz (148 mL), wax-sealed
Heat
Enough to take a capital
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