These are the best hot sauces for BBQ season

The barbecue season is in full swing and a good barbecue needs a nice selection of hot sauces if you ask us. But which hot sauces go best with different barbecue dishes? On this page we give you a few hot sauce tips per category. We also briefly explain why these sauces go so well with it. As a bonus we’ll throw in some awesome hot sauce cocktail recipes

Chicken

With chicken dishes we mainly suggest the somewhat sweeter and fruitier hot sauces. Especially when the sun is out, the sauce of choice can have a tropical touch. Think of sweet sauces with tropical fruit, such as pineapple, mango & papaya. Good examples of sweet, fruity hot sauces are the Heartbeat Pineapple Habanero and the Dirty Dick’s Tropical Pepper Sauce. Another very good tip: Jerk Chicken and for that T-Rex Champagne Superjerk BBQ Hot Sauce is absolutely perfect.

Beef

Red meats are great with just sea salt and black pepper, but you really take it to the next level with a rich and complex sauce that complements the flavor perfectly. This can be done with a delicious combo of paprika & habanero or a hot sauce with mushrooms for example. Queen Majesty’s Red Habanero & Black Coffee is great for beef or go for the Torchbearer Mushroom Mayhem Hot Sauce, which is also quite hot!

Pork

When we think of pork, we mainly think of smoky sauces. Typical BBQ-style hot sauces contain quite a bit of sugar (or sweet fruits) and smokey peppers like Chipotle. Two ultimate BBQ hot sauces are the Raijmakers Heetmakers Heat Enhancer (with chipotle, habanero & whiskey) and of course our own La Barbacoa Hot Sauce!

Fish

Fish and citrus are great friends.  When looking for great hot sauces for grilled fish we then look for sauces that contain ingredients like lime and lemon. Our favorite sauces for grilled fish are the Raijmakers Heetmakers Immune Booster and SWET Lemon Hard.

Grilled vegetables

Some people sometimes forget, but BBQ isn’t exclusively for meats. Grilling vegetables is awesome too and for veggies we rather choose milder hot sauces with lots of herbs and garlic. Melinda’s Garlic hot sauce is garlic forward, but if you are looking for something that also goes well on salads, then the Queen Majesty Jalapeño, Tequila & Lime is a very nice sauce.

Cocktails

Some drinks are kind of a part of a barbecue as well, right? Not only because it can make it a bit more fun, but also because it is nice and refreshing. A cocktail is an excellent choice and hot sauce can be combined surprisingly well with it. Turn a Michelada into a Peachelada with the Roze Tranen hot sauce from Yous & Yay x Heatsupply or spice up a Bloody Mary with Bloody Josef hot sauce.

These cocktails and many more surprising & delicious recipes can be found in our book HOT SAUCE – The hot sauce bible with 40 spicy recipes. The official Heatsupply cookbook can be ordered now! Also, here you can find a full page with our favourite BBQ hot sauces.