Gates Original Classic Bar-B-Q Sauce, 18 Ounce Bottle (Pack of 2), Kansas City Style Barbecue Sauce

I grew up in KC - Home of Bryant's BBQ. But I've also lived on the East Coast, West Coast and Texas. They all have good, but different BBQ sauces. If you want BBQ sauce from the self-proclaimed "BBQ Capitol", you owe it to yourself to try Gates. It's not as sweet as "sticky" sauces nor as acidic as some others. In a word, it's "perfect". The ingredients are balanced so as not to have one dominate. It has the consistency of a true sauce rather than the slow molasses of some sauces nor the thinness of others. Use it on chicken or pork but it really shines through on beef - particularly brisket and most decidedly on "burnt ends".

I love the flavor. You might like something else.

Great taste… definitely worth it and will buy again!

I am obsessed with this BBQ sauce and am so bummed no stores sell it in my area (I'm far from KC). It's not super sweet and has the perfect amount of spice. You can actually taste the vegetables in it which is something I haven't experienced in a BBQ sauce. I originally purchased this for the big game for my KC themed food and will 100% buy this again. It's not super thick and sticky and you can taste the ingredients. It has a little kick to it but not super hot. It wasn't cheap but it was worth the money in my opinion.

We have one of those grocery outlet stores near us that sells overstock, stuff from stores that closed, out of date stuff, whatever. A long time ago, I bought some barbeque sauce that seemed to be from a food show or something - it wasn't a national brand, but it was just delicious - full of black pepper, spicy, not too sweet, with a depth of flavor I had never had in a store sauce before. The grocery outlet only had a few bottles, so I bought them and stupidly didn't even bother to save the bottles to see if I could buy more online. Over the years, I have tried literally every sauce in the store, trying to find one that had a flavor as good as that random one I had years ago. Finally started searching online, and came across Gates. THIS is what I was looking for. So delicious, I could drink it out of the bottle. I don't even eat meat, but I put it on anything I can think of - black bean burgers, burritos, vegetarian seitan "ribs," use it to dip french fries and veggie chix nuggets. It's perfectly spicy and doesn't have that cloying disgusting sweetness of all those store sauces. I could go on and on about Gates for 10 pages, but I won't. Just try it. You won't be disappointed. I just ordered 2 more bottles a couple minutes ago! A+

Overall good. Saw a cooking show that had this listed as the best of K.C. sauce. Not so much if you like a thicker, sweeter, more tomato sauce. just okay.

Love Kansas City barbecue!

Great BBQ sauce. Since I can’t get to Kansas City, this is the next best thing