" We had all the rookie problems -- bugs, fungus -- but we worked it out."

The idea came like so many good ones do.

“We were just sitting around, drinking and fishing and talking,” said Danny Colon, one of the founders of B&D Sauce Co.

The subject was peppers, specifically the bird pepper, also known as the pequin, grown so often in the Caribbean. And that conversation led to a small pepper farm near Palatka and a hot sauce company based in Jacksonville.

Read more at the Florida Times-Union.