I just copied this from the hippy seed company web site
The World Hottest Chilli
Guinness World Record
The 19th of November 2013 we have a new World Hottest Chilli: The Carolina Reaper SHU 1.569.300 SHU. The former Recorder Holder was the Butch T Scorpion SHU 1.463.700 – we had the record for the world hottest chilli together with The Chilli Factory and Mark Peacock from 1st of March 2011 till November 2013. Congratulation with the new Record to Ed from USA. Try our Guinness World Record Pack if you want to grow some of the record holders.
The story about our hottest chilli in the World
world hottest chilli Here is the Story about, how Neil found the former world hottest chilli. Our mate, Butch Taylor, sent us the seeds and we grew them. Neil started years ago testing chillies on YouTube, because he is dyslexic. So instead of trying to write about the chillies, he thought it was a good idea describing and showing the chilli in a video. Now we have over 300 videos on YouTube. Back to the story about the world hottest chilli – it was time to test the new Butch T Scorpion. The 21st of February 2009 he made his first chilli test of the Butch T. Neil lost his sense of taste for days, his tongue felt swollen and had to go to bed after the test. For year Neil said the Butch T was hotter than the former Guinness Record Holder, but no one listened. In March 2011 we got the Guinness Record for the world hottest chilli together with Mark Peacock and Marcel De Wit.
