Guest review by Paul Zonfrillo from Team ZBQ
The best way I can describe this sauce is KC BBQ meets Carolina Vinegar sauce. It is on the thin side for consistency, has a noticeable deal of acidity, but it is balanced out by a good dose of sweet. The result is a full bodied [...]
When I received my first plastic pouch filled with BBQ sauce, I wasn’t sure what to think. Quickly I learned this new sauce from Gayle’s has great ingredients, excellent/unique packaging, a bold apple/smoke flavor and it’s somewhat famous. It’s not too thick and not too thin, which makes it versatile for most types of cooking [...]
Ah yes, another five star sauce. I’ve been pretty much addicted to this one since it was sent to me and I’ve tried it on everything from Angus beef burgers (gifts from Omaha Steak Co) to mac & cheese to grilled chicken and grilled cheese sandwiches. It’s a great all purpose sauce that I can’t [...]
The numbers tell a fair amount of the story, but I’d urge folks to try this. The taste is something for those of you who like the sweet stuff, but the consistency leans towards the “can I stick this meat product in a pool of it and let it sit overnight” variety. For backyard grillers, [...]
It’s not inedible, it’s just different. Almost like a combination between Russian dressing, a vodka pasta sauce, and BBQ Sauce, it’s not what I consider to be a natural complement to backyard grilling. The mixture seemed to have gone slightly wrong somewhere and wow, I couldn’t even sit near the bottle too long with the [...]
Before looking at the ingredients, its a full-flavored KC-style sauce with a solid onion-garlic infusion that I would recommend to anyone looking for a flavorful KC style sauce with a little extra spice. Nothing too fancy or different, but tasty.
After looking at the ingredients, the perspective changes and you get a different picture altogether…
First impressions can be deceiving. A quick glance at this bottle, and you might be inclined to expect a generic taste from a mass marketer of multiple types of foods - all of which probably don’t taste all that good.
But I love it when I’m wrong.
It’s all about the fire and what happens in it. And although it took me awhile to realize it for this particular sauce, Nebby had this figured out from the start and remained confident that his sauce would stand up to my criticism. This is a story of a sauce that at first glance appeared [...]
I think a lot of companies get the execution of fruit-based BBQ sauces wrong. The concept of eating barbecue sauce with fruit is a bit odd for some who are used to garden variety (no pun intended) sauces that don’t taste much like typical fruits and vegetables.
In a previous BBQ Sauce Review, I’ve tried to advise others to avoid the Christmas Tree Shoppes when purchasing BBQ sauces. I should take my own damn advice. I don’t even know why I bother to review this stuff. I guess it shows a nice balance of the good and the really bad. [...]
A great tasting sauce. Not too much variation from the mild sauce in terms of flavor, but I noticed something slightly unusual here - usually on a label for spicy BBQ sauces, you can quickly determine what ingredient is making the sauce hot. Usually it’s some kind of pepper, either in spice, extract, or [...]
Like breaking off a little piece of Hell and mixing it with some vinegar and tomato sauce, this stuff will certainly torture you with heat. If you believe your mouth should deserve the fire and brimstone treatment, then you might like it. If you’ve been reading me for a little while, you might know that [...]
Buying BBQ sauce at Christmas Tree Shops is so backwards it’s funny - wrong season, wrong store. I can safely bet that the bargain shoppers that this store appeals to wouldn’t dare spend more than 2 dollars on a BBQ sauce, and that’s a shame. There’s some really incredible stuff out there, but not available [...]
Country Bob is a great guy and a marketing machine - maybe it’s because Christ is his C.E.O. (it says that on the website and all of the marketing materials feature heavy usage of bible passages). However, if one looks past the biblical references, there’s a lot this company is doing right - distribution at [...]
Excellent ingredients, label, taste, smell, consistency. A great balance of sweet, spice, and tang that won’t burn your mouth off. The addition of natural hot sauce, habanero powder, cayenne peppers, and oriental hot mustard heat up your mouth to a slow simmer, but don’t take it to the level of scoville novelty like some [...]
A great tasting BBQ sauce from a great BBQ joint in Massachusetts (yes that’s where I’m writing from). This hits the mark with a combination of great taste, smell, and packaging. I love the tallboy-style glass bottle for BBQ sauces.
I was a little surprised at how thin it was (not the best for backyard grillers) [...]
Best way to describe this is a nice gooey teriyaki/soy sauce with a little bit of heat. This asian-style sauce is far from the traditional KC-style BBQ sauce we’re all so used to seeing and trying. For example, this doesn’t have any tomatoes or vinegar. This Yaki sauce has served me well in kicking up [...]
Emeril is a huge brand that pulls in over $150 million a year in revenue across it’s media, restaurants, and products. This is a minor speck in the portfolio and (maybe because of that) it’s average at best. Another victim of the “large brand on auto-pilot” phenomena. The good qualities of the sauce include a [...]
To sum up this sauce, it’s yet another mass produced “looks like it’s from a small mom and pop store variety sauce but actually from a fairly large corporation” variety. And that’s not always horrible. It’s when the sauce is loaded up with ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors, MSG, and artificial flavors [...]
Paul Miller has been making this sauce for about a year and a half. Not long ago, he produced his first official batch and shipped me out a few samples. I suggest you try it out!
From Paul
“Well I started making my own sauce a few years ago and after many, many hours over the [...]
A fruit BBQ sauce that doesn’t make you gag? Excellent. Four stars.
Ah, another five star sauce.