Moonlite and Moonshine

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    cups
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Smoke & Spice: Cooking With Smoke, the Real Way to Barbecue

By Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison

Published 2014

  • About

Catherine and Hugh Bosley opened the Moonlite Bar-B-Q in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1963. Lacking restaurant experience, they just pretended they were having company for dinner. These days the company numbers in the thousands on weekends, many making the hour-plus trek from Louisville to load up their plates at the copious buffet. Among the treats, one of our favorites is the vodka-based hot sauce, great on mutton and other red meat. It inspired this fiery con