Bourbon-Brown Sugar Barbecue Sauce

Preparation info
  • Makes About

    2 Cups

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

Describe the perfect barbecue sauce. Well, if you come from North Carolina, you’ll probably evoke a thin sauce based on vinegar and hot peppers. If Decatur, Alabama, is your home, your dream barbecue sauce probably contains cider vinegar and mayonnaise. But if you belong to the great ranks of “unaffiliated” barbecue lovers (that is, those not bound by the tradition of your micro-region), you’ll probably hunger for a sauce that is thick, sweet, and tomatoey, with only the faintest hint of ac