Oh, the name of that sauce was PC Smokin' Stampede Beer & Chipotle Barbecue Sauce. I nominate them for longest name ever. I'll just call it B&C from here on in.
B&C - beer and chipotle eh? What's not to like? Well, I don't drink beer, but it can be good in BBQ sauce and chili and fish batter. And there's a cowboy on the bottle, that makes the name stampede more sense.
Pretty generic claims about the sauce. 'Bold' and 'flavourful' could be any bottled hot sauce on the market.
I thought it was quite an interesting ingredient mix, some of the more eye grabbing ingredients including: coffee, beer, bourbon. Chipotle was in there (as spices mix), but the first three ingredients are sugar, water and tomato paste. The sauce also said one chile of heat, which was surprising to me because the sauce I had had a bite and this looked like it was going to be more savory than spicy.
The plan had been to bbq these wings. But dark clouds and strong winds meant I was going to oven bake them [I really miss my deep fryer, sitting in storage. :( ] instead. LJ wasn't too crazy about BBQ sauce, so I seasoned half of them in THIS rub.
2008 S SCORE v1.0: PC Smokin’ Stampede Beer & Chipotle BBQ Sauce
BOTTLE INFO | ||||||||
TYPE: | Spicy bbq sauce | |||||||
PRICE & BOTTLE SIZE: | 1 litre | |||||||
SAUCES: | PC has so many | |||||||
INGREDIENTS: | Sugar, water, tomato paste, white vinegar, salt, spices (contain chipotle peppers), brown sugar, modified corn starch, canola and/or soybean oil, natural flavour, onion and garlic powder, caramel colour, coffee, beer, tamarind extract, bourbon, mustard flour, xanthan gum | |||||||
CLAIMS/SLOGANS: | “A bold and flavourful sauce with a touch of smokiness, ideal for chicken, ribs, pork and beef” -One chili heat mark | |||||||
WEBSITE: | ||||||||
THE SENSES | ||||||||
APPEARANCE /TEXTURE: | -thick -dark | |||||||
SMELL: | -smokey, tomato and I say coffee, but that’s might be because I read coffee in the ingredients | |||||||
FLAVOUR: | -see above with a hint of spice | |||||||
THE PAIN | ||||||||
HEAT: |
| 0/3 | ||||||
BURN CHRONOLOGY: |
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TASTE: | Very tasty, a great BBQ sauce | 3/3 | ||||||
FINAL SCORE | 3.5/6 | |||||||
OTHER: | There may not be any heat, but it’s a damn good sauce |
The sauce looked so good, pouring out of the bottle, slow, thick. It looked even better on the wings. It was gooey, but not too sticky. It had the perfect texture for a BBQ sauce in my opinion.
The sauce was good - really good. But there was not heat. At all. I couldn't understand it, because the heat on my fathers ribs (which I had again about 2 weeks ago) had a good bite to it, and I know he didn't add anything. What was going on?
Because of these terrible wings, I swapped some of the spiced wings and tossed them in the BBQ. Better, but not by much. The chicken that is. The BBQ sauce tasted good.
FINAL SCORE: While I got the wrong sauce, and this wasn't spicy, it was a really good bbq sauce. It's got everything a non-hot bbq sauce should have: texture, thickness, smokiness and bold flavour. Yes, the bottle may not have been original in describing their sauce, it was dead on.
3/6
PC Smokin' Stampede Beer & Chipotle Barbecue Sauce
Presidentschoice.ca
4 comments:
Shake this over the wings when the come out of the fryer:
http://www.presidentschoice.ca/FoodAndRecipes/GreatFood/ProductDetail.aspx/id/19571/name/PCSmokinStampedeSpiceMix/catid/173/language/english
Then toss it with the Beer & Chipotle BBQ sauce. Not even remotely hot, but extremely satisfactory flavour.
Sounds tasty - thanks for the tip!
Try this one out for a little more kick in combination with the Spice Mix:
http://www.presidentschoice.ca/FoodAndRecipes/GreatFood/ProductDetails.aspx/id/18652/name/PCSmokinHabaneroBarbecueSauce/catid/178/type/2
Love the PC products!
Anon - That is the sauce I meant to pick up. I actually did get it a few weeks ago and I like the heat. But the beer and chipotle has a richer flavour. PC is surprisingly good!
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