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Ole Ray’s Kentucky Red Bourbon Barbeque Sauce
By DK | April 27, 2009 |
Ingredients:
Tomato, Sugar, apple cider vinegar, yellow mustard, Bourbon,
lemon juice, liquid smoke, corn syrup, molasses, cayenne pepper
carmel and spices
Taste The Fear would like to welcome aboard a new reviewer, Ray Gibson, to our ever expanding review team. No, the reviewer Ray isn’t Ole Ray. Ray is Buddah’s boss. Welcome to the TTF review team Ray! Let’s also welcome back Chef Wes to the team of TTF reviewers. We hope you enjoy this new review team combo.
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Reviewer #1- Ray
This my first shot at reviewing a barbeque sauce. So I will try and give some good feed back.
I was trying Ole Rays Kentucky Red Bourbon Barbeque Sauce. I wanted to give the sauce a fair shake by trying it on different kinds of meat. The first try was on a T-bone steak that was cooking on the grill. The steak was cooked to about medium rare. I poured some of the sauce on the steak, and the first thing I noticed was that the sauce was real runny, more like steak sauce. I prefer my barbeque sauce thick. The flavor of the sauce on the steak was very good. It was just too runny. Next I tried some boneless chicken breast. This is my meat of choice to cook on the grill. Again the flavor was good, but it just did not stay on the meat. Now what I decided to try was some pulled pork. I cooked up a pork butt mixed with two onions for about 6 hours in the slow cooker. When I finished pulling apart all of the pork, I poured the remaining sauce on the pork and onion mixture. It seemed to absorb right into the meat. I grabbed a bun and piled some meat on it. This is what this sauce is made for. The flavor was just enough and the thin sauce blended well with the meat. This alone will make me buy this product.
- Ray Gibson
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Reviewer # 2- Chef Wes
A while back, Buddah had a bottle of Ole Ray’s Kentucky Red Bourbon Barbeque Sauce sent to myself for review. When it comes to BBQ I know what I like, so let’s cook up a storm and start to roll…
Ingredients:
Tomato, Sugar, apple cider vinegar, yellow mustard, Bourbon,
lemon juice, liquid smoke, corn syrup, molasses, cayenne pepper
carmel and spices….( I can never figure out why anyone will just names the spices….I’m sure one of them is salt…lol )
The label is very interesting. Simple but classy, especially the quote, “great for the entire family”. The black label gives it a mysterious effect, and I love the bourbon jug.
As I proceded to open the bottle, the plastic cap was cracked…another great play by our postal system. I was hit with a complex aroma of all the ingreadents. Generally one of them sticks out and a little over powering. The smell was proportioned nicely. I hate it when you get hit with vinegar. Don’t get me wrong, I have had vinegar based sauces that are marvelous.
I started to dive in and found myself quite surprised! I first took a shot glass full. Kind of like tasting a fine wine. Then I took some fresh foccacia bread out of the oven and started to dip. It was not too sweet, smokey, hot nor overpowering with any of the ingredients. Before I go any further, this sauce was also tasted by my friends children, so this is a review is from old to young. Now let the cooking begin.
I started with a Rib Eye Steak. This was okay probably due to the fact that I eat my meat seared rare. In this case, there was not enough time for the sauce to carmelize on the meat, but my buddy loved his steak medium-rare. We then went to pulled pork which was simmering for hours. Now that was a great marriage. There was not much sauce left at this point, so we had to choose. What will it be chicken or shrimp?
Drum roll please……Skewered Shrimp it is, on the Barbie…lol. I only used large shrimp for this one.
U-8 for this one tasting….first the kids skewered them ( don’t worry Mom’s out there, the kids are 10 and up), then marinated them in. Orange, grapefruit and key lime juice just for 15 minutes, (you don’t want to over power Old Ray’s Sauce ). I slow cooked them while basting them in sauce. Awesome!
Now that you have the guts of my tasting, of course I went back for seconds with a Red Savina sauce to get to my desired heat level. Overall a very nice mellow tasting BBQ Sauce, which would work wonders with almost anything you would put on the grill. One note, it could be a little thicker. Like I said I know what I like and Ole Ray’s Kentucky Red Bourbon Barbeque Sauce is fine by me.
8.95 on a 10 scale
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Contact Info:
Ole Ray’s Sauces
6824 Linton Road
Goshen, OH 45122
For Wholesale Orders Call
1-888-730-2740
For Retail Quantities Click On The Order Online Tab
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E-mail: olerayssauces@zoomtown.com
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Topics: General, Hot Product Reviews, Reviews | 9 Comments »
Great Job by the reviewers!
I have had this sauce many time before as we used to sell Ol’Ray’s BBQ Sauces it is very good and tasty I like Ole Ray’s Kentucky Red Bourbon Barbeque Sauce a little more then his others myself.
Great review guys. There seems to be a few Rays bbq sauces out there. My sons fav (non-hot) is sweet baby rays.
Can you taste the Bourbon?
If not. Do what I do A Bottle of Bourbon and BBQ pour the BBQ on what ever your eating take a bite then take drink of the Bourbon. DUH Bourbon taste everytime
Leroy, most people ain’t eatin’ week old road kill, I’m sure they can taste the bourbon just fine.
Nice review guys! Ole Rays sauces are used quite often in our house.
We use the Kentucky Red on ribs…but I pour it straight down the middle and let it run to the sides and cook in.
Any one at FMK last year would know of the Gold jerky! Great sauce!
Ray has a great line of sauces..all family friendly. Blackberry wine BBQ is another to try..maybe thin but will work with pork and chicken.
blackberry one is great with chicken as a marinade.
Good review and I am sure a great sauce, but what is really impressive is that Ray can put up with Budahh !!!!!
Saw Ole Ray’s products in the Brown County Winery in Gnawbone, IN over the weekend. Had some pretty good wine samples while there.