This is a hideous sauce.
There’s so much wrong with this sauce, it’s hard to begin. A noxious taste is still in my mouth, like a mud pie - but worse. I’d rather eat dirt than this stinky, synthetic blend of cheap ingredients. I’d rather drink oil (not car oil, more like olive oil which isn’t so bad…) 
Discovering hidden gems like this are one of the main reasons I started doing this website and blog.
Russ and Frank shipped me out three jars of sauce - their complete portfolio of Mild, Sassy, and Fiery.
And I went straight to Sassy, perhaps because I knew what to expect from the others. And if you think Sassy sounds funny… well… screw you, buddy, cause this is a classic “two buddies drinking beer” story with a happy ending.
Russ and Frank were chronic “searchers” looking for a better BBQ sauce every time they left town. One night, they were grilling and hanging out on a deck, having a few beers, when their conversation again drifts into their mutual dissatisfaction for BBQ sauces. So that night they finally promised to do something about it, and over the course of the next year, tested between 50 and 75 batches of barbecue sauce. Since then they’ve packaged the product, put it in stores, won various awards, and last year sold about 1500 gallons of sauce. Nice.
OK, enough history - on to the Review!
Well, I gotta say my analytic personality was challenged to find anything wrong with the Sassy sauce. It hit all the highs and I really couldn’t find any lows except for their weak distribution strategy (guys you gotta get this into the Northeast).
Let’s get into it, one by one.
The best part of running this website is the fact that people are sending me free sauces. The other part is meeting people from different places… People have come from a variety of backgrounds - large multi-national brands, US only brands, successful regional brands that are trying to expose their sauces to larger audiences, and sometimes people send me sauces in their early “infancy stage.”
I gotta admit, I am a little skeptical of just opening up anything in a bottle mailed to me, however after a brief dialog with Chuck himself, I was put at ease, and eager to have a taste. Along with two glass bottles of his Drunken Pepper Spicy Barbeque Sauce, he sent some of his STB spices, as well as a paper survey for reviewers to complete - an excellent way to get feedback indeed. Currently this is not something you can buy, but hopefully with some of the comments from other reviewers and yours truly, this will change in time…
Continue reading “Chuckster’s Drunken Pepper Spicy Barbeque Sauce (beta)”
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