I love Fork N Halo BBQ Sauce Fire and Brimstone BBQ Sauce. I’ve tasted many fine sauces in my life. Some of them, like Pappy’s Moonshine Madness, should be in a barbecue sauce hall of fame. This is one of those sauces.The bold sweetish-hot flavor notes of this barbecue sauce make it ideal not only for anything you can cook on a grill, but for any food you might want to dip. I started looking for excuses to use this sauce, but the truth is, I don’t need an excuse. It’s damn good and I’ll eat it when I want to.

Interesting ingredients combine to bring out a sauce that nears the gourmet stage here. Tomatoes, evaporated cane, red wine vinegar, pure honey, apple juice, kosher salt, mustard Continue Reading

Ingredients:

• 1 bacon strip, halved
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 2 tablespoons chopped green onion
• 1 tablespoon chopped jalapeno pepper
• 1 cup ketchup
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon prepared mustard
• 1 tablespoon minced fresh thyme Continue Reading
  

This is the kind of barbecue sauce that will have even the pickiest barbecue sauce connoisseurs nodding their heads in excited agreement over the quality of what’s inside the bottle. Made by the same folks who make Louisiana Lickers Sauce, Quaker Steak and Lube Buckeye BBQ is a surprising treat straight out of the bottle.

This is another plate-licking delight. Following the same everything-but-the-kitchen-sink style of ingredient combination as it’s Louisiana Lickers Sauce counterpart, Buckeye BBQ includes ketchup, hot sauce, Tabasco Sauce, cayenne pepper sauce, ginger, and corn syrup. The result is a very sweet sauce with an underlying heat that creeps up on you.

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Ingredients:

• 2 cups packed brown sugar
• 2 cups ketchup
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup cider vinegar
• 1 cup finely chopped onion
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 cup corn syrup
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon garlic pepper blend
• 1 tablespoon liquid smoke flavoring (optional)
• 1 tablespoon prepared mustard
• 1 teaspoon onion salt
• 1 teaspoon celery salt
• Optional hot sauce to taste (depending on the heat level preference you could add in Tabasco, Dave’s Insanity Sauce, or a couple of drops of Blair’s MegaDeath Sauce) Continue Reading
  

Ingredients:

• 1 cup prepared yellow mustard
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup light brown sugar
• 3/4 cup cider vinegar
• 1/4 cup water
• 2 tablespoons chili powder
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon white pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
• 1/2 teaspoon soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 tablespoon liquid smoke (hickory flavoring)

Directions:

1. Mix all except soy, butter and smoke.
2. Simmer 30 minutes.
3. Stir in remaining ingredients and simmer for 10 more minutes.

Pappy’s White Lightnin’ BBQ Sauce proves that no one is regulating how many X’s someone can put on the label of a hot sauce or barbecue sauce. Pappy’s White Lightnin’ BBQ Sauce has three X’s and they shouldn’t. They only have a small heat. Triple X suggests a sauce that will start a bonfire on your esphogus. This one only sparks your tongue.

You can smell tomato, a little vinegar and a little heat when you open Pappy’s. You will taste the tomato, vinegar and heat as well as hickory smoke, sugar, garlic, onion, and a little taste of Kentucky bourbon on the edges (just as it hits the mouth, and also just as the flavor leaves).

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I could write a book about Louisiana Lickers Sauce. The ingredients alone would fill a book, so I won’t be listing all of them; I’ll simply talk about the ingredients I feel play a primary role in this sauce’s success.

First off, Quaker Steak’s Louisiana Lickers Sauce is billed as a wing sauce, and make no mistake about it, this is one of the finest sauces you could ever top your chicken wings with. I did it and ate a baker’s dozen in one sitting. It was a beautiful experience. The thing is, I think I could drink this sauce straight from the bottle and be perfectly happy. Continue Reading

Jim Beam Barbecue Sauce gives you everything you’d expect from a companythat has been making some of the finest whiskey around for over two centuries. Fruit concentrate, molasses, a combination of spices, and Jim Beam Bourbon provide the down-home taste of this barbecue sauce.

Jim Beam Barbecue Sauce is thick and hearty, with smoky flavor and overtones of smooth bourbon. I painted this over a slab of ribs and tossed them on an open charcoal pit. The smell of barbecue ribs in Winter is sure to engage the neighbors. It wasn’t long before a few of them stopped by to chat, waiting, of course, for the ribs to finish. Continue Reading

There are several important things going on with Pappy’s Moonshine Madness ingredient wise that result in a barbecue sauce far and away above any barbecue sauce I have ever had the pleasure of tasting. First things first, though. Pappy’s little concoction may be billed as a barbecue sauce, but this sauce does double duty as a hot sauce alone, useable in any situation you might use a traditional hot sauce. It also makes a fine wing sauce.

Now let me talk about the ingredients. Pappy’s has sugar, vinegar, fresh onions and garlic, anchovies, Worcestershire sauce,  tomato sauce and tomato paste, paprika, black pepper, lemon powder, lemon juice, lemon oil, and natural hickory flavoring. Continue Reading

Sweet is the key word in Black Swan Sweet Cognac BBQ Sauce‘s name and in its flavor. With a short list of ingredients that include soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, orange juice, brown sugar, garlic, onions, ginger, and cognac. It’s the addition of the sweet brandy that gives this Black Swan barbecue sauce its flavor personality.

My wife and I tried this sauce on steak, ribs, and chicken wings. It worked well on each dish. My wife particularly enjoyed it on the chicken wings. I also scored points with my mother-in-law after she tried the Black Swan barbecue wings. I enjoyed each of the dishes we tried the sauce on as well, although it will never replace some of my more favorite pepper-based sauces. Continue Reading

This is one of the best barbecue sauces I’ve ever tasted. I opened the bottle and stuck my finger straight in. Fortunately, my wife doesn’t mind this behavior, and I did wash my hands first.

I tasted the Wild-Mild BBQ Sauce by itself and was impressed right away by delicate balance of sweet, smoky elements of the sauce, as well as the light application of cayenne peppers included to give it added flavor. I say “added flavor” because that’s exactly what the peppers do. There’s no real heat to this, which is the point of  the sauce, but there is flavor out of this world. Continue Reading