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smoking Old Fashioned Tennessee BBQ sauce

This is my old recipe from my Grandfather back in Nashville I use in my BBQ sauce I make and sell.
Fresh crushed tomatoes
Black Strap Molasses
Brown Sugar
Vinegar
Black Pepper
Liquefied garlic and Vidali onions. you simply slice very thin and add them and the juice and they liquefy as they cook.
Smoke juice collected from my smoker in Mesquite/Apple,Hickory woods (Its easy to make a collector)
 
I slow cook my sauce all day in 5 gallon pots
Depending on what batch I am making I may or may not add peppers. I offer the following:
1. Mild, no peppers
2. Hot, jalapenos
3.Grim Reaper
For the Grim Reaper I add roasted peppers I grow which are cross pollinated  Ghost, Carolina Reapers and Scorpion peppers.
I prefer to grind my own black pepper and use Himalayan Sea Salt.
The Molasses, Brown sugar add the sweet taste. The Grim Reaper is beyond hot, deadly as some say.
I ship around 200 16 ounce bottles per month currently to customers in USA, Russia, Philippines, Thailand, England.
 
The secret to a good BBQ sauce is the ingredients, listening to customers.
Do I use the sauce I make myself? You bet I do! Great on anything, including eggs!
 
 

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