Tiberius Mauler Chocolate
Also known as Chocolate Tiberius Mauler · Chocolate Tiberius
Tiberius Mauler Chocolate is a Capsicum chinense cultivar from Connecticut, United States. Capsi’s sourced range is 860,448–1,500,000 SHU (Vendor Claim). Flavor is earthy, smoky, fruity. Used for barbecue sauce, chili paste, dry rub, hot sauce, chili powder. Heat is a range, not a single marketing number.
Tiberius Mauler Chocolate is a brown-podded Capsicum chinense superhot, a later color of the Tiberius Mauler line that ripens to a deep chocolate brown. Pods are gnarled and heavily wrinkled, often with a long twisted tail.
About 27 times a Capsi Jalapeño (31,902 SHU typical).
Growing
~110 days to maturity
Fruit size
4–8 cm
Flavor & Use
Earthy and lightly smoky, with a brief sweet note before the burn.
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About
Ripe pods finish chocolate-brown with a slight sheen on a contorted, wrinkled body. Most fruits run about 4 to 8 cm. The flavor is earthy and a little smoky, with a short sweet note before a sharp superhot burn. It works in barbecue sauces, pastes, rubs, and powders. Plants need full sun and a long warm season. Packets still warn that the chocolate color can throw other shades.
Backstory
The Tiberius Mauler line turned up in Brian Hamilton's Pomfret, Connecticut garden in 2019, from seed he had from Justin White of White Hot Peppers. Hamilton kept selecting for a clearer scorpion shape and named the pepper after a Guild Wars character, in memory of a friend who died at 42. Chocolate pods were later picked off the caramel color and sold as their own unstable selection.
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FAQ
- How hot is Tiberius Mauler Chocolate?
- Capsi’s sourced range is 860,448–1,500,000 SHU (Vendor Claim). Capsi uses a sourced range and a trust tier, not a single marketing number. How we verify heat: https://web.thecapsi.app/learn/heat-and-capsaicin/how-we-measure-heat
- What does Tiberius Mauler Chocolate taste like?
- Earthy and lightly smoky, with a brief sweet note before the burn.
- How do I grow Tiberius Mauler Chocolate?
- Tiberius Mauler Chocolate: about 110 days to maturity, subtropical climate, full sun, hardiness zones 9-11.
- What can I substitute for Tiberius Mauler Chocolate?
- 7 Pot Douglah, Chocolate Ghost Pepper, Moruga Scorpion Chocolate