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Paulman Acre Don’t Pear the Reaper is an extra hot sauce, first brewed in 2015, that threads the needle between heat and flavor by pairing Carolina Reaper (with 7 Pot, habanero and Fresno) with fresh D’Anjou pears and raspberries, shallots, lemon and garlic.
It took first place for extra hot fruit sauces at the 2024 Scovie Awards. Use it to jack up the heat in soups, stews or guacamole, or eat it straight. Paulman Acre warns it’s usually too much for non-chileheads. Paulman Acre is Tim Paulman’s brand, started in 2014 when he left the tech industry, and it’s made at California Hot Sauce Solutions in Oceanside, California, which he co-founded in 2018.
Size: 5 fl oz
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About the maker
Fermented and fruit-forward hot sauces handcrafted in small batches in Oceanside, California.
Paulman Acre’s sauces are full of character: Grilled Nopales, Fermented Garlic, Electric Pumpkin, Smoke a Peach and Don’t Pear the Reaper, plus Calexico and Mexicali sauces named for the border towns. Tim Paulman also co-founded California Hot Sauce Solutions, and his collaborations with J’s Small Batch are in the shop too. Half the range is mild.
Carolina reaper
Habanero
Lemon
Garlic
Soup
Guacamole
Sandwiches