Favorite bottled BBQ Sauce?
Right now I am into Sweet Baby Rays. It has just the right amount of sweet and heat. Yours?
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30 Comments:
My partner and I always have a quart of "Famous Dave's Sweet & Sassy" sauce in the fridge. We also like the relatively new Tabasco Sweet bbq sauce. Personally, I like any sauce with a good mesquite or hickory smoke to it....any suggestions?
2qrs at 11:16AM on 04/12/07
Stubb's of Austin
dksbook at 11:35AM on 04/12/07
Second the motion on Stubbs.
gustoct at 11:45AM on 04/12/07
I'm going w/ Stubbs as well... but I also keep a bottle of Gates BBQ from KC in the fridge.
Alm25 at 11:48AM on 04/12/07
Is Stubb's available nationwide?
ThatGirl153 at 12:27PM on 04/12/07
For a not so sweet sauce I prefer the Trader Joe's Kansas City style BBQ sauce.
For a sweet sauce the best for me by far is Lucille's Original Bar-B-Que Sauce found at Lucille's BBQ here in southern California.
Jperezish at 12:39PM on 04/12/07
Dinosaur Wango Tango
Freedom at 12:41PM on 04/12/07
ThatGirl... I'm not sure about nationwide, but I can get it at just about any grocery store here in Minneapolis and I've seen it in Small town Missouri as well.
Alm25 at 1:09PM on 04/12/07
Love Dinosaur's Wango Tango sauce.
El_Mimbre at 1:26PM on 04/12/07
Buckeye Hot & Spicy (delivers a hot and sweet glaze, no thick goop) or Stubbs
Cary at 1:39PM on 04/12/07
Re: Stubb's - my son found it at a market in either Allston or Cambridge last fall. He needed it to serve with the HEB smoked brisket I overnighted him.
dksbook at 1:48PM on 04/12/07
Oh! I forgot - I also love the sauce from the Salt Lick in beautiful downtown Driftwood, Texas.
dksbook at 1:55PM on 04/12/07
Stubbs is available here in upstate NY too. I'm partial to their marinades rather than their sauces. Their is a southern marinade type sauce called Paw Paw's that I purchased during a trip to Tennessee that is incredible too...just the right amount of tomato & vinegar.
My absolute favorite is Stonewall Kitchen's Maple Chipotle Grill Sauce....sweet & heat! Of course I love just about everything the put out!
mepolo at 2:26PM on 04/12/07
Russell's BBQ sauce from Chicago, IL.
mel at 2:33PM on 04/12/07
He needed it to serve with the HEB smoked brisket I overnighted him.
dksbook, will you adopt me?
Lia Bulaong at 3:09PM on 04/12/07
Stubbs and Sweet Baby Ray's are both available in major supermarkets in the Boston area. My Tennessee-raised SO prefers the Stubbs of the kinds we can get up here; my California-grown sweet tooth prefers Ray's.
Lynne at 3:24PM on 04/12/07
Re: adoption - of course. Not adopt a food blogger? Impossible!
dksbook at 5:51PM on 04/12/07
I was a Stubb's fanatic for years, but just did a blind tasting with my wife with 3 sauces; Stubb's, Butch's Smack Your Lips BBQ Sauce and a homemade sauce. We were very surprised that Stubb's came in last, mine in the middle and Butch's was our favorite, so my choice is Butch's for now.... but I'm still working on my own!
jonfoxx at 7:12PM on 04/12/07
stubb's spicy version us A1 -- no pun intended
chameleonz at 1:07AM on 04/13/07
I'm partial to Sweet Baby Ray's, too. Maybe the sweet-hot-tomatoey preference is California-centric? (It would be about time something around here was.) ;-P
Calichef at 3:00AM on 04/13/07
My favorite brand is Sticky fingers.
The "habenero hot" is the perfect combination of spicy and sweet, perfect for grilled wings, and Carolina Sweet makes ribs taste like heaven.
hammondcheese at 8:54AM on 04/13/07
I highly recommend Head Country BBQ Sauce made in Ponca Cty, OK. It's a small company and an offshoot of their excellent BBQ restaurant, also named Head Country. They have three varieties – regular, hickory (which I'm addicted to) and hot. They also make a killer Seasoning Rub that I use on everything from beer can chicken and grilled fish to veggies. I think it blows away any of the mass market sauces like Stubbs or Sweet Baby Rays.
Hungover Gourmet at 9:45AM on 04/13/07
Bob Evan's wildfire bbq sauce. Sweet and sort of spicy. Like me. :) I know you can buy bottles at the restaurants and I think I've seen it in grocery stores.
I 2nd the Famous Dave's nomination even though I've only had one sauce and I can't remember the name. I ate there for the first time last week and throughly enjoyed the beef brisket sandwich.
Will definitely try Stubbs and Sweet Baby Ray's as both, miraculously, are readily available in my area.
Excellent question, thanks for posting it!
AuntJone at 10:22AM on 04/13/07
My first choice is Maull's out of St. Louis, but it's not available here in SW Florida, so I've found KC Masterpiece a suitable substitute. I'm also a big fan of Maurice's BBQ sauce from Columbia, SC.
1stmakearoux at 11:21AM on 04/13/07
My dad used to travel for work and every time he was in KC he would pick up a case of Gates BBQ sauce. Many happy summertime memories. Also like Hoboken Eddie's.
KDBlue at 1:07PM on 04/13/07
You never know what you have been missing in a great BBQ Sauce until you have tried Benny's BBQ Famous Sauce.
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Benny's BBQ also makes Benny's Famous Texas and Benny's Famous Peanut sauces that also enhances any BBQ on the planet.
Benny's BBQ is located in Richmond, VA and has been a Richmond tradition for over 15 years.
Visit BennysBBQonline.com and ask them to ship a bottle of one of their sauces to you.
FilmVA at 7:54AM on 12/25/08
dinosaur...rawrrrr
or pierce's pitt barbeque from williamsburg va
machellebelle at 8:49AM on 12/25/08
i love sweet baby ray's. i gonna try stubbs.
dearrie at 9:46AM on 12/25/08
We order Big Bob Gibson from Alabama.
Also Rudy's BBQ in Albuquerque has a really tasty sauce.
soozm32 at 10:44AM on 12/25/08
Dinosaur's Wango Tango here too!
dhorst at 11:46AM on 12/25/08