★ The Origin ★

The Marin
family recipe.

A wooden mortar. A scotch bonnet pepper. A grandmother who never measured anything. That's where this recipe started — in a kitchen in Trinidad, decades ago. Three generations later, we still make it the same way. We just put it in nicer bottles.

The Marin family — Felix and Shafina, the heart of Trinbago Pepper Sauce
~ The Marin Family ~
❤ In Loving Memory ❤

Dedicated to
Felix & Shafina.

Felix Sanchez Marin 23.12.1938 — 21.03.2021
&
Shafina Marin 31.01.1938 — 11.10.2016

Every bottle of Trinbago carries Felix and Shafina with it. Their recipe. Their kitchen. Their fire. Three generations of Marins later, this is still their sauce — we just keep bottling it.

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Trinidad to Indiana.

Felix and Shafina brought the recipe with them when they came to the States. It traveled in a memory — never written down, never measured, just taught hand-to-hand the way real food is.

The Marin kids grew up eating it. The Marin grandkids did too. By the time it became Trinbago Pepper Sauce in 2018, three generations had already perfected what Granny Shafina started.

Real food doesn't have a recipe card.
It has a family.

/02 — The Difference

What you won't find
in the grocery aisle.

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Grocery Hot Sauce

High fructose. Synthetic vinegar. Heat from extract powder. Made by a machine that's never tasted food.

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Trinbago

Whole fresh peppers. Raw apple cider vinegar. Heat from real scotch bonnet. Made in small batches by people who eat it every day.

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Grocery Hot Sauce

"Caribbean style" on the label. Made in a New Jersey factory. Bottle says habanero, ingredients say cayenne extract.

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Trinbago

Recipe from Trinidad. Bottled by Trini hands in Fort Wayne. What it says on the label is what's in the bottle.

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Grocery Hot Sauce

Lasts forever in the fridge. Should make you wonder.

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Trinbago

Best within 90 days of opening. Like real food should be. We tell you because we respect you.

— A note from the Marins —

"Built with love. Built with intent. Built for the family that built this recipe."

— The Marin Family

Try a Bottle
❤ Trinbago Pepper Sauce® is dedicated to the Marin Family.
In Loving Memory of Felix Sanchez Marin (1938–2021) & Shafina Marin (1938–2016). ❤