This is very good BBQ from South Dakota… it has got to be close to one of the sweetest sauces I think I’ve ever had. Brown Sugar is ingredient numero uno. But hey, people might be looking for that, so I didn’t mark any points against them for that. What I really liked about the sauce was it’s chunkiness. Dip your finger in and your finger will be speckled with a gooey BBQ sauce filled with chunks of pepper and garlic - nice!
Holy Honey Bees Batman! This stuff is different. It’s got some majorly positive qualities going for it - awesome packaging, consistency and high-quality, natural ingredients (avoidance of corn syrups and refined sugar), but the side-effect is a unexpectedly strong honey taste. Once again, natural vs flavor beat each other up in this BBQ Death Match.
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I’d like to advocate for only the little guys in the BBQ sauce world, as if all the big companies couldn’t make a good BBQ sauce product. But I’d be wrong, and quite a hypocrite, if I didn’t give Bullseye props and a solid 4/5. It just tastes great.
Way back in my high school days I used to have a crush on the Bullseye Burger… and when BK would release it at specified, “limited time offer!” periods in the summer time, I’d eat them like they were going the way of the 8 track. Luckily, I’ve gotten past those dark days and have tempered my fast food intake for the most part, although I will relapse on special occasions - like when I travel for business. Good thing the Rodeo Burger is a permanent member of their value menu. 
Sometimes the stories behind the sauces are as tasty as their sauces. Here’s the Sweet Baby Ray’s story (from SBR website):
“It all began back in 1985 when a local Chicago boy named Chef Larry perfected his family’s recipe for a sweet and tangy BBQ sauce and entered it into the country’s largest rib cook-off, the Mike Royko Rib-off. Chef Larry called his sauce Sweet Baby Ray’s after his little brother David, who got the nickname shootin’ hoops on the west side of Chicago. On the day of the rib-off, Sweet Baby Ray’s beat nearly 700 entrants to come in second - an amazing feat for an unknown. The rest, as they say, is history.”
Sweet Baby’s Ray’s is now huge, with national distribution and availability at virtual any supermarket. And while I try to stay away from mass market BBQ sauces, I must say this one’s a winner. Although mass produced drawbacks such as high fructose corn syrup, preservatives, and random ingredients such as “natural flavor” are apparent, it’s also undeniable that this is one damn tasty, and thick sweet sauce.
As a matter of fact, the only real negatives to the product were:
1. the package I chose - the squeeze bottle - and
2. the ingredients that mass produced stuff ends up putting in there to prolong shelf life and simplify and cheapen the production process. Lots of concentrates, preservatives, and goopy sweeteners.
So anyway, I opened the bottle and took my first sniff. Delightful. Smoky and sweet, with hints of garlic and onions, and maybe a little a little vinegar. Instantly I think to myself, I should put this stuff on ribs. But I had already purchased a package of chicken wings, so that would have to suffice this time around.
Before cooking it, I sampled the uncooked flavors using my trusty unsalted Saltine crackers. Smoky, sweet, and … bold I guess. Just a strong flavor that instantly makes your mouth water and think, let’s put away these friggin crackers and get on with it!
So I fired up the grill and got the chicken started; then gathered my tools, and started to prep the sauce. But when I opened the top, I realized I had opted for the wrong bottle! Don’t get me wrong - squeezable bottles are on my list of greatest all time food product enhancements - but only when you’re talking about condiments like ketchup and mustard. But a griller uses a bottle in a completely different way. I want an open mouth on my BBQ sauce, so I can pour it, unfiltered and unrestrained, watching it flow like lava into a wide open bowl in which I dip my basting brush. Sweet Baby! Next time I’ll get the big bottle.
Regardless, the sauce was nice and thick and made application to the meat a breeze. It clung onto the meat like glue… in a good way.
Post grill, I sampled my wings and they were as good as before if not better. The overwhelming sweetness got burnt off a touch, so the flavors smoothed out into a sweet yet hearty flavor. I haven’t tried their original yet, but this one is sure a winner in my book… er, site.Got a deal on this at a special 2 for $3 price. 18 oz squeezable bottle.
Smell: Very nice, round, complex sniffage. Just smells like a BBQ sauce should.
Taste: Sweet, hearty, bold, nice… could satisfy anyone’s palate I’d say.
Consistency: OK, I have a thing for thicker sauces. They made it thick - with modified food starch. Yum.
Packaging: Did I mention I didn’t like the squeeze bottle?
Overall Score: 4 out of 5
Ingredients: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Vinegar, Tomato Paste, Honey, Chipotle Pepper Sauce, Modified Food Starch, and less than 2% of: Salt, Worcestershire Concentrate, Pineapple Juice Concentrate, Spice, Natural Smoke Flavor, Caramel, Sodium Benzoate for shelf life, Red Bell Pepper (dried), Natural Flavor (?), Garlic (dried).
Nutrition Info: 18G carbs, 0g Fat, 310mg Sodium, 70 Calories per serving (37g)
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