Sean Paul To Manufacture ‘Scorcha’ Hot Pepper Sauce

Dancehall superstar Sean Paul has revealed that he has another agro-processing plan up his sleeve, this time the making of Scotch Bonnet hot pepper sauce, under a brand he has named Scorcha, after his latest album.

According to The Sun, Sean Paul said that he made the decision after he got involved in farming and agro-processing during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and has honed his skills so much so, that has decided to launch the pepper sauce.

“I do gardening. I’ve got a little patch ready in my garden and I planted eggplants, tomatoes, lettuce, pak choi, and also sweet peppers and scotch bonnet peppers,” the Temperature artist said in “an exclusive chat with Bizarre”, The Sun reported.

“The scotch bonnets are still bearing now, and I picked about 60 of them yesterday. When I’m on tour I have people to take care of them for me.   I’ve got so many that I’m starting my own pepper sauce, called Scorcha. It’s going to be available near the end of the year,” he said.

Pepper sauce in Jamaica is made of the indigenous Scotch Bonnet pepper and has a hot and tangy flavour.   The main commercial variety of pepper on the island can be up to 40 times hotter than jalapeño peppers, and is also highly rated for its aroma, pungency, flavour, yield, and disease and pest tolerance.

In October last year, Sean had announced that he was in the process of venturing into the legal cannabis business as he had seen an opportunity in the market for healthy edibles, a point he had also raised in an earlier interview with cannabis magazine High Times.

Sean had told The Independent that he had noted that while the ganja edibles currently on the market are able to help people who are unable to, or do not smoke, they are still problematic as the sugar content tends to be very high.

“Edibles can help a lot if a person can’t smoke, but if that person is sick with diabetes then these edibles are gonna kill him because they’re full of sugar!” he had explained.

“I’m in the process of trying to make edibles that are more healthy, and for now I’m also developing my own strain of smokes that people can enjoy,” he had added.

Edibles cannabis-infused foods or drinks have been consumed since ancient times, and have been used over the centuries to relieve stress and treat chronic conditions, or induce euphoria, similar to alcohol.  Examples of these are gummies, candies, chocolates, capsules, teas, and oils. 

Sean Paul, who has said he makes his own edibles by infusing oil with ganja and mixing it into his baked goods and confectioneries, had also said that he was willing to work with entrepreneurial-minded people to “edibles into a healthier medicine”.

“So, if the industry wants to holler at me and hear my ideas about these things, I’d love to go into that part of the business with y’all. There are people who need cannabis as medicine and some of them can’t smoke or consume large quantities of sugar on a consistent basis,” he had said.

In late December last year, Sean Paul had told the UK Mirror that he once got into a spot of bother, after his mother and 90-year-old grandmother mistakenly ate, and got high, on the freshly-baked ganja cakes he had made for himself, for his birthday party.

According to the Gimme Di Light singer, who is known to apologetically laud ganja in his songs, since that incident he has had to ensure he carefully labels whatever cannabis-infused pastry or confectionery he concocts in his kitchen.

“They ate them before I could tell them not to and then spent all afternoon on the couch stoned,” the Gimme Di Light artiste had explained.

“My 90-year-old grandmother was hallucinating looking out of the window thinking all the birds and the trees were changing colour, while my mum was like the cookie monster,” he added.