@Chilli_Farmer Upton Cheyney Chilli Festival 10th Sept

The annual Chilli Festival will taking place on September 10th 2011 will be their third festival and its shaping up to be the best yet! Sadly I wont be able to make this one but have already pencilled it in for next year! 

This mini festival looks a delight and different from others focusing on families and the whole day experience not just endless chilli stores but more about the farm and the chilli itself. Instead you get some carefully selected chili stalls listed below.

There will be a chile growers competition, demonstrations on sauce making and smoking using a Bradley Smoker as well as larger scale smoking using our soon to be constructed smoke house!

Food and drink will will be available all day with a chilli themed BBQ running. The farm shop opening its doors for chilli related cuisine in the evening, and a cider influenced bar being open from midday through till close.

Back by popular demand too is the bouncy castles slides, and the Kangaroo boxing suits alongside traditional farmyard fun and games. Pony rides and tractor rides will be taking place and of course everyone is encouraged to walk around the farm taking in the amazing scenery and far-reaching views.

The daytime event - which starts at midday - will have a small entrance fee, whilst the evening event is tickets only and this has been sold out due to popular demand! The evening will be slightly less chilli related, although our bands will keep the crowds hot hot hot with their funky sounds!

chilli heads confirmed to attend include: 

• Hot Headz - Chilli Sauces, crisps, nuts and sundries
• The Upton Cheyney Chilli Co -
• Lilys Chillies - lovely hand crafted pottery
• Bath Pig - delicious chorizo from UK farmed pork.
• Davids Chilli Oil - a unique chilli oil that surpasses any other oil
• Stoke Gifford Spices - mixing spices
• Bart Spices - Bristols very own spice importer who now also grow chillies
• The Bath Doorstop - Bath's very own specialist door stop manufacturer, supplying a limited edition range of chilli themed door stops!
• Simpson Seeds - a huge range of chilli seeds including the super hot 1.5m SHU
• Carolines Jewellery - some of the most lovely chilli themed gems
• Seaspring Seeds - Seeds and plants from the developers of the one time hottest chilli in the world - The Dorset Naga.
• The Scrump Project - a community project involved in pressing fruits from ancient and redundant orchards. Watch out for their one-off chilli apple juice!
• The Wood Bodger - traditional wood turner, crafting wooden chillies in front of your eyes

 If you cant make it to the festival, at least pick yourself up some of their sauces.The

Upton Cheyney Chilli Company - Fruity Chilli Sauce pictured on the right tastes great with a pasty. you can pick some up from Scorchio by clicking here or go direct to the farm shop too.

Upton Cheyney Chilli Sunshine Sauce review:

@Chilli_Farmer have again delighted me with Sunshine sauce the third hot sauce I have tried from the good people at the Upton Cheyney Chilli Company.

As with all their hot sauces the label has their trademark homely design to it welcoming you in and how can you resist a a very funky looking sun holding a couple of chilli peppers!

The bottle says "A hot sauce with flavours of summer including pineapple, honey and lime. Drizzle over salad for a taste of sunshine"

The ingredients are truly summery ingredients including pineapple which gives that sunshine feel. The addition of honey provides the sweetness and habanero lets you feel the heat of the sun. This hot sauce does not focus on the heat of the habanero and will not blow your head off. Instead the other ingredients compliment the natural fruity flavour of the habanero and this is a good thing. The overall sauce is a great for livening up all manner of salads or as a dip. I found sunshine sauce went well with pizza and a rather interesting prawn stir fry.

Why should you buy this sauce....The passion the Upton Cheyney Chilli Company have for their farm and their products is clear, and this is evident in the quality of the sauces they produce. Their chilis are organic and home grown and their ever expanding range of sauces are ones you should check out. If habanero heat is not for don't worry they have a full range of tasty stuff worth giving a go, including my favourite 'oak smoked chipotle sauce'


Check out their online farm shop here and pick up a bottle of sunshine from them direct and support this UK company. I certainly look forward to working my way through the rest of their sauces.

Upton Cheyney Mango, Lime and Habanero Hot Sauce Review

@chilli_farmer in Upton Cheyney kindly provided me with a bottle of their Mango, Lime and Habanero Hot Sauce to try. The bottle has their trademark appealing homely look to it, giving the sauce a real organic feel before you even try it. Checking out the ingredients the ones that caught my eye were cider vinegar, red and orange habanero and interestingly English mustard which I believe adds a stroke of genius to the flavour.
The bottle says: An exotic hot sauce, based on mango and lime for a bitter sweet taste with red habanero's for a fiery finish. Be aware - it's is a very HOT sauce!

Upton Cheyney Chilli Company - Mango, Lime & Habanero Sauce

I tried this hot sauce over a fillet of salmon with a nice crunchy salad. The red habaneros indeed give this sauce its kick tempered only by the cool well matched mango and sharpened just enough by the lime. I would definitely buy this sauce again and will be investigating where I can use it in my next dish tonight. Im thinking a spiced yoghurt dip to go with a curry...

Why should you but this sauce....The passion the Upton Cheyney chilli Company have for their farm and their products is clear, and this is evident in the quality of the sauces they produce. Their chilis are organic and home grown and their ever expanding range of sauces are ones you should check out. If habanero heat is not for don't worry they have a full range of tasty stuff worth giving a go.

Check out their online farm shop here and pick up a bottle from them direct or from Scorchio by clicking here and look forward to a bottle of joy from these easy going people.

The Upton Cheyney Chilli Farm

@chilli_farmer run the wonderful Upton Cheyney Chilli Company. They even a have a farm you can visit too. The farm is open throughout the growing season from March to November. They are a friendly bunch there eager to share their chilli expertise and enthusiasm with you offering tours through the chili tunnels. Currently there are 2 poly large tunnels. One (a 15ft x 20ft tunnel) is used for germination and propagation, whilst the other (a 20ft x 60ft tunnel) has been used this year for the main growing crop. 

Throughout the tour and at any part during your visit useful the staff are on hand to provide you with great advice on growing your own chilli plants and to cap it off a great range of taste samples at the end! Click the picture below to go straight to the farm shop and treat yourself.

Whats different from other chilli sauce producers and Upton Cheyney is all products manufactured by them use their own organically grown chillies and home grown supply of garlic and onion. The chilli sauces and chilli jams are lovingly made in small batches in the kitchen of our farm shop too. These people put real love and passion into their sauce making so if you get the chance give then some support and visit them at Manor Farm, Upton Cheyney, Bristol, BS30 6NQ. If your around at the right time check out their very own chilli festival on September 10th.

Their website has sooo much more information so check them out on the farm by clicking here

Upton Cheyney Chilli Company: Oak Smoked Chipotle Sauce

@Chilli_Farmer Upton Cheney Chilli Company were recent discovery to me and I was very keen to try out their range of homely looking chili hot sauces. First up is their Oak Smoked Chipotle Sauce. The bottle is understated and raises your curiosity of the contents. The word Chipotle always gets my attention but I first noted the words above 'oak smoked' had me reaching to open the bottle as soon as I received it.

The sauce smells gorgeous, thick and sweet from the molasses and crucially smokey! if you check out their website you will find that their fresh red ripe Jalapeno's are oak smoked for 18 hours!!!! Before being ground up to create a chipotle spice. Now that's dedication to good sauce making.

I have tasted many chipotle sauces that rely too much on the flavour of the chipotle alone to carry the sauce through. This is not the case for the Upton Cheyney Chilli Company creation. This medium heat sauce will have you salivating and reaching for more instantly with its addictive sweet heat. I highly recommend checking out this sauce. You won't be disappointed. Click here to pick some Oak Smoked Chipotle Sauce from Scorchio

This sauce even has the seal of approval from my partner who is a chipotle sauce lover "I wholly approve of the smokey taste of this sauce it is one of the nicest chipotle sauces I have ever tasted" 

After writing this review I couldn't stop myself, and made a plate of nachos covered in the sauce then decided to pick up a pack of chicken wings and marinate ready for a BBQ in the evening. The bottle didn't last me the whole weekend and is already on my wish list.....

To investigate other sauces the Upton Cheyney Chilli Company have Take a look at the farm here