Nice creamy yellow color and a smooth skin.
You can see the oil in the shot below. I thought this was going to be much hotter than it was.
What a great chile. The White 7 Pod (I like the proper name 7 Pot better but for Youtube saying "Beaglestorm vs. White 7 Pot" might draw additional interest that would lead to disappointment when it's discovered I am actually just reviewing a chile. Anyway, This is not a white pepper as the name would lead you to believe. However it is a nice unique shade of very light yellow. It's a very nice shade and the chiles have a great globe shape. I can definitely see some 7 influence in the shape. The pod feels much thicker skin/fleshed than a normal 7 pot. Almost like a scorpion or habanero. Testing revealed it to be as predicted.. nice and juicy and thick.. although it has a thicker outer skin than I would like. Still though it was a pretty nice texture chewing it up. Medium-high seed count. The placenta was more typical of a habanero. The walls had very little but it had thick veins and a nice growth around the seed cluster. I could see a few droplets of capsaicin inside (based on the heat it may not have been capsaicin. See picture on chiligrower or THP) but not a lot of placenta. When I cut it open it had a strong smell of a 7 pot with a bit of sweetness and some yellow like a scotch bonnet. Flavor was really great. I ended up eating the whole pepper. Thinking about it has a similar flavor to a yellow aji type pepper but more complex and balanced. I really could not taste any 7 flavor in it but I could definitely smell 7 in it. Flavor is a bit like a muted green grape but with other subtle fruity flavors. It was also fresh tasting ..the first bite is like eating lettuce with out the lettuce flavor. Kind of watery and crisp. Then the flavor comes through and it is very nice. Heat is medium, maybe even mild. My tolerance is so screwed up with all these nuclear peppers recently. It is hard to rate the heat when it is on the lower end. It gave me a nice tingle in the lips and tongue that lingered for about 30 minutes. Which not like a 7 Pot that hits hard then leaves with out a trace. Thanks Sean, I will definitely be growing this next year.
Hot Pooper sent me another “Hard to think it's so hot” pepper. This one is a Douglah x Butch T cross. It has the exact same flavor and texture of SilverSurfer's Red Douglah Cross but seems hotter. Just a bit under SS's Brown Douglah x Scorpion Cross but really.... it could go either way. The flavor is all red seven, did not taste the douglah except for maybe the additional capsaicin pungency. I could not really taste the scorpion at all. Like I have said before I really don’t like the red seven flavor, but many people do. Having said that, this tasted much better than the Brown Cross and did not kill my stomach (Which is why I put the heat below the Brown.) So I will be growing this one and SS's Brown Cross next year to see what happens. I am hoping a phenotype with more Scorpion characteristics rears its head. (thicker more velvety flesh, and more balanced flavor) The more I think about these three Douglah crosses the less I like them. LOL (So don't think about them then….. right?) Really they are so hot they have a limited number of uses. I will enjoy growing them out though…. like BeagleStorm’s freak show of peppers. Thanks Sean, this one really evoked some soul searching as to why I keep eating these things. LOL.
Purple bhut tonight... I know I said that about the Primo and the Brown 7 just not enough time.
