When you think of BBQ sauce you tend to think of dusty Texas steakhouses or small family restaurants in the south where they roast pigs whole and secret recipes are passed down through the generations like family heirlooms. Chances are you don’t think of New York. Well maybe it’s about time you did. Duke’s New York Roadhouse BBQ Sauce attempts to make the case that Northeast BBQ can play ball with the big boys.

There are a number of different types of BBQ sauces and Duke’s Roadhouse BBQ Sauce places solidly in the sweet category. Continue Reading

Fork ‘N Halo BBQ Sauces are among the very best barbecue sauces you can find. The Fork ‘N Halo Fire and Brimstone is over-the-top good; Fork ‘N Halo Heavenly Hickory is just that heavenly. This Fork ‘Halo Original Sin BBQ Sauce doesn’t disappoint.

Defined by honey, evaporated cane, and apple juice, Fork ‘Halo Original Sin BBQ Sauce Sin packs a sweet flavor that makes it addicting. There’s also mustard powder, paprika, and red wine vinegar. Two kinds of peppers, cayenne and jalapeno add a barely perceptible warmth. There’s also onion, garlic, molasses, some kosher salt, and a little black pepper. Like all of the Fork ‘N Halo BBQ Sauces, though, sweet is the star of the show. Continue Reading

Hillbilly Home Brew BBQ Sauce label proclaims this to be from Paw’s private stash. I’m here to tell you, this is some good stuff. it’s beyond good, quite frankly. It takes me back to Pappy’s Moonshine Madness, which is one of the best sauces I’ve tasted, period, barbecue or otherwise. This Hillbilly Home Brew BBQ Sauce is right on par with Moonshine Madness. In fact, I’d say Pappy and Paw have been cookin’ it up together, probably sippin’ away at the booze they use to flavor their barbecue sauces with while they’re at it.

Here’s the deal, folks. I don’t know what hillbillies know about barbecue sauce that a lot of other sauce makers don’t, but whatever it is, the sauces come out at the top of the heap. It’s no wonder granny’s always got a smile on her face. Continue Reading

You will smell honey and mustard the moment that you open a bottle of Charlie’s Hard Times Honey Mustard BBQ Sauce. The honey and mustard are also very present in the flavor. Also leading the flavor are the apple juice and red wine vinegar, tangoing together, tricking the palate into thinking that there is apple cider vinegar in the sauce (there isn’t).

The other ingredients (mostly sweeteners—honey and apple juice were not enough for them, they also added molasses, brown sugar and corn syrup) take a backseat. Garlic and onion have nosebleed seats on the ingredients list, and are not tasted in the sauce, but this is not a problem because the sauce is quite flavorful without them.
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The label on Roadhouse Original BBQ Sauce shows a roadhouse. The color on the label is a light orange, as if the sun is rising around the house. In the picture, smoke slips out of the house’s chimney and dances on the breeze, remind one of the type of smoky smell that you meet along backcountry roads that makes your mouth water.

When I opened the bottle, my nose was very pleased. I smelled raisons, smoke, tomato and a sweet fruit that I couldn’t immediately place by scent. The Roadhouse Original BBQ Sauce had a beautiful unique smell, and it is a beautiful, unique sauce. Continue Reading