Avery Island is the home of the world famous Tabasco brand Pepper sauce. Tabasco is manufactured by Mcllhenny Company on the very site that it was invented in 1868 by Edmund Mcllhenny. The Mcllhenny company is still privately owned by his descendants.
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| The Tabasco plant |
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| The Tabasco Museum |
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| This is the only tabasco plant, it is all made here and shipped to over 180 countries around the world |
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| They make 7 different flavours of Tabasco sauce |
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| When they describe what Tabasco is used for , they mention bloody caesars in Canada. |
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Only 3 ingredients produce the distinctive flavor - aged red peppers, natural vinegar,
and a dash of Avery Island salt.The fresh peppers a crushed to a mash ,
a bit of salt added, and then aged in barrels for up to three years.
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| They buy used barrels , and then change the hoops to stainless steel before they are filled. |
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After the aging vinegar is added to the mash and it is stirred in vats for 2 to 3 weeks.
The skins and seeds are removed and you have Original Tabasco Sauce
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| Avery Island is actually a salt dome squeezed up from the earths interior. The island climbs about 160 feet ,( 50 meters ) above sea level, stretches 2.5 miles across (4 Kilometers) and covers 2200 acres ( 890 Hectares). The deposit of rock salt is thought to be deeper than mount Everest is high. |
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| Pepper plants are started here |
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Seeds are provided to growers in Central America, South America, and Africa.
After the peppers are turned in to mash it is shipped back to Avery Island to be aged,
blended and turned into Tabasco Sauce
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| The aging warehouse |
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| The barrels are topped with salt during the aging process |
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Millions of years ago an ancient body of water evaporated repeatedly leaving behind a layer of salt.
That salt eventually measured 1000's of feet deep. Covered by alluvial soil it remained deeply buried
until the downward pressure oaf the earths mantle caused a column of the salt to push upward
toward the earth's surface creating a salty dome.
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| We should have had Tabasco t shirts |
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