Looking for suggestions: BBQ Sauce
 

A while back someone on CP had recommended Cowtown's Night of the Living Bar-B-Q Sauce. I wish I remembered who had said it because I'd send you a bottle of bourbon. It was suggested as the best bottled BBQ sauce and I agree. I usually make my own sauces, but this really was fantastic.

I had been getting it on amazon, but they want $16 for 2 bottles and I found it on here, https://www.thekansascitybbqstore.com, for half the price. (And they have free shipping until midnight tonight.) Before I pull the trigger on an order, is there anything else on there that you'd recommend trying? I could use some suggestions for stocking stuffers or general gifts. :thumb:

The cowtown spicy is really good. For regular bbq sauce, Jack Stacks is my favorite. It makes for a killer sauce base on BBQ pizza.

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I'd grab that Firebug Hot Grillin Sauce if you like Night of the Living.

NOTLBBQ is the spicy

If you like hot sauce, check out Zim's Hot Sauce. It's a KC product and its superb.

Gates Extra Hot > all

night of the living bbq sauce is pretty good though

Surprised they don't carry Black Market sauces, I was going to suggest them. Small BB-Q joint in Moberly, MO. Their Q is average but that sauce is top grade. I am glad I can get it here in CoMo at the Hy-Vee.

How are you getting the free shipping?

Any retail outlet in the metro selling firebug?

Sometimes Hy-Vee has it.

Always been a fan of Gates (Original and Spicy) along with Jack Stack sauce. I can't stand Bryant's sauce.

Hopefully someone local can chime in. I've been ordering it from OP's link and shipping is a bitch.

Yeah, when op said free shipping I got excited to stock up on some sauces but its still trying to charge me $15 to ship.

Cyber Monday deal, free shipping if you spend over $25. That's why I thought it would be worth grabbing a few things.

I figured it out, I had an item in my cart that didn't qualify. Thanks for the heads up, I stocked up on enough to last me a year.

Food threads haven't been pulling the best numbers around here lately, but it's very possible this one could reach over 100+ replies! Good work.

UChieffyBugger the type of guy to eat Great Value BBQ sauce.

I bought some of the 100% Pain hot sauce too, anyone ever tried it? I've been looking for an easy way to add more heat to my Buffalo Wing sauce, hopefully it'll do the trick.

Iron Horse Farm makes a tasty sauce. Sets up nice on wet ribs

I live in the San Diego area so finding jack stacks was a challenge. With a little searching Ace hardware has them online $9.59 18oz and other bbq sauces. Just place the order on line and have it delivered to the nearest Ace hardware near you. There will be no shipping charges.

100% Pain is hot but not stupidly hot.

For sauces I like American Stockyard Original Pitmaster, Bash Bros Honey Jalapeno and all 3 varieties of Three Little Pigs. These are all pretty sweet sauces.
Pain is Good brand heat levels are pretty consistent in regards to ghost/habanero/scorpion raw heat.

I live in the Jefferson City area & does anyone know if any of these are available locally?

Yes indeed on the Gates. Im right with you on Bryant sauce so for perfectly smoked meat do like seinfeld bring your own bottle.

Slumming in Excelsior Springs I see. Their sauce is good along with the BBQ.

Head Country Spicy FTMFW...

Rufus Teague...Touch O' Heat, or Blazen'

Used to be able to get it at McGonigles Meat Market. Sometimes at the Hyvee on State Line. But neither place has carried it in over a year. The only place I know to get it now is the The Kansas City BBQ Store in Olathe.

Firebug is my go to. I almost always have a bottle of that in the house. Love their spicy one as well.

Did they stop making the Billy Butler sauce?

Free shipping deal is pretty nice. I’d been wanting to try Night of the Living for a while and also put some of the Firebug in the order.

Zarda made that sauce. It was pretty much just basic Zarda BBQ sauce. I still have a bottle here in the cupboard somewhere...

The Gates Hot sauce is pretty damn spicy. Almost too much. I like to cut it 50/50 with their regular sauce. Makes it a bit more manageable.

Bryant's original sauce is a love or hate thing. No other sauce is like it. Its tart and had a ton of vinegar and paprika in it. I think its fabulous on brisket, but not on other things. They make a sweet sauce which is more like other traditional KC sauces that is excellent on chicken and turkey. it's one of my favorite sauces, and makes a great dip for chicken strips.

for spicy... gotta go with big ricks chipotle out of witchita

Looking for suggestions: BBQ Sauce
 

They still make it?!

I talked to the inventor of it a few years back and he said they sold the recipe to someone else and they didn’t make it anymore.

Are you saying that I can purchase Firebug Hot here and now in Dec 2019!!??

UPDATE: went to the link in the op and ordered a bunch of firebug hot. Hope it’s the same as the old stuff. Thanks CP!

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If you're looking for a good sweet sauce, try Blues Hog. It's a sugary and sticky sauce that works great on some things. Too sweet for an everyday sauce. But really good on chicken/pork if that's what you're going for.

Obligatory “Gates Sucks”

I wish they had that sauce when they had the place in Stations Casino.

When I was young Dad would take me and my brother to old Municipal to take in a ball game. We would stop at the original Brooklyn location. I always was in wonderment at the carboys setting on the window sill inside that old greasy curtain fermenting in the sun I guess. The sill would be covered with dead blowflys with others buzzing between curtain and window. I would order the beef sandwich and the fellow would reach in with gloveless hand grab a big fistfull of meat and slap it on top the wonderbread. Id go back to table and tell Dad that he didnt use the tongs. Dad would give me the look and say if you knew what was happening in the kitchen behind closed doors you would run out the joint. The he would wink and say Arthur lets you see right out in the open he has nothing to hide, shut your trap eat and enjoy.

It didnt used to till Ollie got into city government with parks and rec. He let his kids run it into the ground.

Bob Gibson's white sauce is on there.

It's actually pretty easy to make it yourself and it's not for everyone, but it's damn unique and REALLY good on smoked chicken.

If y'all are putting in an order anyway, I'd suggest you give it a try. You might hate it, but you might also find 50 different uses for it. Worth spending a few bucks on.

Maurice's Southern Gold is probably the best store-bought mustard sauce I've ever had. Again, not for everyone but if you like mustard sauce (and don't want to try to make your own), I'd recommend giving that a shot as well. Sadly, they don't appear to have the spicy version on the website, but if you haven't had it before, I'd still give it a shot and maybe doctor it up with a hot sauce of your choosing if you feel inclined.

Willingham's Hot Stuff is on there as well - good rub but not as good as their WHAM Cajun seasoning (which I friggen swear by).

Bone Suckin' Sauce is one that I've tried that's also unlike most other stuff I've worked with; as you can imagine I prefer the hot stuff. Hard to explain it but they call themselves "North Carolina Style" I guess. I'd say if you hate Bryants sauce (as many seem to), steer clear of it. It has a bit of a smokey vinegar flavor to it that I sometimes really like.

How's the Pain is Good Garlic sauce? If you aren't around, I'll probably give it a shot either way but I'd be curious to know if you've tried it.

I kinda thought 100% pain was lousy, but I don't really like most habanero based stuff. That smoke flavor on Habaneros is just off-putting to me. Gimme ghost pepper 100 times out of 100; flavor is so much better and the balance is as well, IMO. There's some good sweetness in there as opposed to the a sort of fetid smoke.

THEY HAVE GALLON BOTTLES OF TIGER SAUCE!!!!!

I've mentioned that stuff around here as a mid-smoke glaze that I like to add to ribs to help the bark or as a marinade for sirloin (that I'll then cube and wrap in bacon before grilling).

It's outstanding and if I can't find it, I can't find a replacement for it either. I've tried to find replacements for it at times but just haven't been able to. So if I can't find it, I scrap whatever plans I had for it outright.

I dunno if anyone needs to buy a gallon of it and the price they have it for on there is about grocery store prices (and Hyvee usually has the small bottles), but if you have $30 to burn and wanna take my word for it, give it a go.

Thanks everyone for the great suggestions, and please keep them coming in the future. I bookmarked the thread for some orders down the road.

My cart started getting a little full so I got about half of what I wanted and I'll save the rest for later.

I ended up grabbing the following:
Firebug, Original and Hot
Head Country Hot
Gates Original
Hillsdale Hot
Blues Hog Original

Crap, forgot to throw a bottle of Hillsdale in there.

Went with:

Night of the Living (2)
Firebug Hot (2) and original (1)
Pain is Good Ghost Pepper Barbecue (1)
Pain is Good Garlic Style Hot Sauce (1)
A bottle of G-Sauce from Go Chicken Go (because my dad loves the shit)
And a gallon of Tiger Sauce. Because it will make my wife angry and it's a hell of a lot cheaper to buy that big ass bottle than all the little 4 oz bottles I can find at grocery stores.

Preciate the suggestions gents and thanks to the OP for kicking off the ideas.

Holy crap I'm an idiot. The whole reason I was on there was to get some more Night of the Living and I completely forgot it when going down the rabbit hole.

I just placed a second order for a gallon of Night and I grabbed a small bottle of Tiger to try.

I'm in a barbecue sauce desert here in Denver right now. All of the sauce I can get at the store is pretty meh.

I learned of Tiger Sauce living in Louisiana for a couple of years. Really good on a burger.

I hear you. I don't think I've ever seen good BBQ sauce on a shelf in New Jersey. That's why I jumped all over the free shipping and stocked up for a good 6-8 months.

Go ahead and crap on me, but I always have a squeeze bottle of KC Masterpiece on hand. Anything different has negligible differences.

So you learned how to figure out who thumbed down ya and now you're just looking to celebrate it, eh?

Because really, this post should end up hidden due to low vote totals when all is said and done.

This is an objectively terrible take.

What? Barbecue is highly customized, and can vary widely in flavor and quality. It's not some generic commodity like beer where every brand tastes the same,.

Ouch.

Never really been a BBQ snob is all. You want to get nuts? I like A1 on my $68 steak at The Mission. I'll fight any one of you mother****ers.

I saw a dude order a $60 steak, order it well done and smother it in ketchup. I know that's okay in Kansas City now.

But it ****ing isn't!

Savages.

Rich Davis original recipe was great when he sold to Clorox (Procter & Gamble) they changed it up a bit its thicker now and quite a bet sweeter. Rick Davis was a bbq legend and his award winning sauce redefined the KC bbq sauce which was dominated by Memphis transplants at the time. Yes the sauce isnt as good now but its damn better than what most people across the country got with Hunts and Kraft or Ott's. Nothing to be ashamed of at all hell i pick up a bottle of the original recipe all the time.

His 60 bucks I suppose he can eat it how he damn well pleases.

I usually go with Cowtown - night of the living sauce. Wife prefers Gate's and it's good too but nothing tops KC/OKC Joe's sauces.

That might just get your ass kicked.

Oh man! I look up to you.

Hey, you really want to give me a hard time? Scho treated me to a night out to Bourbon and Bones in Scottsdale. Great meat, great bourbon. I ordered a Captain and Coke and a Chicken Caesar Salad. He was flabbergasted. LOL

The 'secret' of Firebug is blackberry puree.

Delicious. . . .

I make a killer bbq sauce

This. Nzoner used to bootleg cases of that stuff back to St Joe. It's the perfect sweet/spicy combination.

I went without it for a bit after I moved from KC. When I ordered it a while back I noticed the bottle shape and branding were a bit different and figured they may have changed ownership. I didn't notice any difference in taste though. Still tasty af.

I like Rufus Teague's line of sauces. Particularly the original. But my go to sauce is homemade. Tinker with the "parts", but it's basically ketchup, molasses, soy sauce, worchestershire, garlic powder, and pepper. I add a little cayenne if I want it spicy. If you can find sorgum molasses it's even better but it's tougher to come by.

A few of my favorites:

Jack Stack Spicy
Rosedale (I have Wyandotte in my blood)
Papa Bob’s Bobanero
Blind Box (they’ll give you an assortment to try)

#1 Gates

#2 Blue Hog

#3 ... see #1 & #2

Even in KC the BBQ sauce selection at a grocery store can be kinda terrible.

Having briefly dabbled in that industry, what gets on the shelves is all about money and clout. Once you strip away the different brands, its about 4 companies that make up 90% of a grocery store's products.

I love Rosedale sauce too. I like it on chicken strips. I have a big bottle in my fridge right now. That sauce has to be refrigerated, so you can't really ship it unless you put it on dry ice.

I'm not going to crap on you, but KC Masterpiece is made by the same people who make Clorox. You get what you pay for, Masterpiece is $.88 a bottle in KC. If you like Masterpiece, they sell the original formula in a bottle with a silver and black label here in KC. It's the real stuff with brown sugar and not HFCS like the cheap shit. I use it when I make pit smoked beans.

Damn....now I am hungry as hell.

I gotta admit, there is a use for KC Masterpiece. It's terrible on real BBQ, but if you get some chicken strips/nuggets and they forget to give you BBQ sauce, its not bad. I've also made a good BBQ chicken pizza with it.

A few of my comp go-to's:

Blues Hog Tennessee Red
Blues Hog Smokey Mountain
Eat BBQ IPO

If you like a thick molasses-y type sauce, blues hog is absolutely incredible. Its become my favorite go to sauce.

Joe's Kansas City.

rubs are good, too.

My favorite Rosedale is in my blood and im from the Northland. Its the perfect dipping sauce for those crinkle fries. That hot spicy is damn good also but the original I could drink as my beverage:D

Some might scoff because it's stocked in major markets, and their main product is salsa, but Mrs. Renfro's has a darn good Chipotle and Ghost Pepper BBQ.

The Ghost Pepper is darned hot, particularly for a BBQ sauce, but it really livens up beans. I also use it in place of hot sauce or salsa on a burrito. The sweet and smoky really work.

Best selling point aside from the sweet, the smoky and the heat, is it's all 'real' ingredients, peppers, tomatoes, molasses, brown sugar, Worcestershire, etc. Not corn syrup shit.

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Seconded. Really a versatile sauce. Sometimes I can find it around here.

Didnt like that ghost pepper q sauce but I swear by their green salsa.