Barbecue Sauce

By Food & Wine
Updated May 09, 2017
Artisanal and smoky, these delectable gravies are best drizzled over your favorite grilled eats.
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Eastern Carolina Barbecue Sauce

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Taking savory cooking to the next-level, this Eastern Carolina Barbecue Sauce is comfort food at its finest; familiar and distinctive all in one stroke.

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Maple-Chipotle Barbecue Sauce

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This sweet and smoky barbecue sauce is the perfect gift for die-hard winter grillers. Refrigerate it for up to two weeks.

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Aunt Julia’s Barbecue Sauce

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Linton Hopkins’s aunt Julia—"my paternal grandmother’s sister-in-law," he says—made giant vats of this barbecue sauce on her farm in Alabama, then drove around delivering it to everyone in her extended family. Hopkins likes to spoon it over coffee-cured pork shoulder. "To have a meal in the South without roast pork is not really a meal," he says.

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Red Chile BBQ Sauce

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Nothing says BBQ sauce quite like red chile, and this spicy take on the classic (with a kick of cayenne to boot) certainly hits the spot.

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Molasses Barbecue Sauce

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Adam Perry Lang’s barbecue sauce—sweet, spicy and sticky—pairs perfectly with his super-flavorful chicken wings.

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Chipotle-Maple Barbecue Sauce

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This stellar sauce is smoky from the adobo and tangy from the cider vinegar. It's great on beef and pork.

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Espresso Barbecue Sauce

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Grilling experts Cheryl and Bill Jamison add espresso to give this sauce a deeply rich, complex flavor. It's delicious with smoked or grilled pork, beef, lamb or duck.

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