Spare Ribs with Root Beer Glaze

flyboys · Sep 11, 2014

Cut and rubbed two racks of ribs last night with A homemade Pigs Worst Nightmare rub. Saran wrapped and sat in the fridge all night. Put the ribs and skirt meat on the smoker. Ribs will be for dinner tonight and the skirt meat will be for a future chili.
The root beer glaze is as follows and reduced on the stove.
1 cup room temp root beer
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup ketchup
1 tblspn Dijon mustard.

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I'm smoking them in my UDS at 250. My plan is to spritz with Apple Juice and Captn Morgans after two hours. I'm not going to foil either.

dirtsailor2003 · Sep 11, 2014

Sounds tasty!!!

pc farmer · Sep 11, 2014

I will be watchin.

chef willie · Sep 11, 2014

Will be interested in hearing an honest opinion on the RB glaze. I've come to really enjoy a good RB on the days I work in a hot box kitchen and have been thinking of using it in a glaze. Nothing new, I know, but I haven't gottn around to it yet....I know many have used RB or Doc Pepper on hams and such.....Willie

flyboys · Sep 11, 2014

dirtsailor2003 said:
Sounds tasty!!!

Thank you Dirtsailor, I'll let you know.

c farmer said:
I will be watchin.

Hopefully for not too much longer, I'm getting hungry and want them done now!

Chef Willie said:
Will be interested in hearing an honest opinion on the RB glaze. I've come to really enjoy a good RB on the days I work in a hot box kitchen and have been thinking of using it in a glaze. Nothing new, I know, but I haven't gottn around to it yet....I know many have used RB or Doc Pepper on hams and such.....Willie

I've never tried this before either, it just sounded really interesting. It smelled good on the stove, but I will definitely give you my honest opinion.

flyboys · Sep 11, 2014

Forgot to mention that I'm smoking it over hickory and apple.
3 hours in and I'm getting some good pull back. The uds is like a smoking microwave.

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I threw some potatoes on as well.

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flyboys · Sep 11, 2014

Glaze time.

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themule69 · Sep 11, 2014

Looks GREAT! Nice ans sticky.

Happy smoken.

David

crazymoon · Sep 11, 2014

Wow, looks like a winner !

dirtsailor2003 · Sep 11, 2014

Saucy!

flyboys · Sep 11, 2014

themule69 said:
Looks GREAT! Nice ans sticky.
Happy smoken.
David

Thanks Mule!

CrazyMoon said:
Wow, looks like a winner !

Thanks Crazymoon!

dirtsailor2003 said:
Saucy!

And sticky!

flyboys · Sep 11, 2014

Chef Willie, I thought the glaze was good. It was very sweet, so those who don't have a sweet tooth may not like it. My rub is sugar heavy too though, so keep that in mind. The kids aren't big spicy fans, so I usually keep it on the sweet side, unless it's for me and my wife. The cool thing was that the root beer taste came through. That's what I was shooting for. I would definitely recommend it to anyone. Let me know if you decide to try something like that.
I'll get the final pics posted in a few.

flyboys · Sep 11, 2014

Total cook time was about 4 hours at 250. They were nice and juicy without foiling. I think I have converted to a non foiler. Here's the final pics of our dinner tonight, thanks for looking!

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oldschoolbbq · Sep 11, 2014

Oooooo , nice

have fun and . . .

kentuckycal · Sep 12, 2014

Interesting, thanks for sharing. What brand of root beer did you use?

flyboys · Sep 12, 2014

Aceoky said:
:drool:

Thanks Aceoky!

oldschoolbbq said:
Oooooo , nice :icon_exclaim: :first:

have fun and . . .

Thanks Oldschoolbbq!

KentuckyCal said:
Interesting, thanks for sharing. What brand of root beer did you use?

Thanks Kentuckycal, I just used regular A&W, I would imagine any kind would work though

chef willie · Sep 12, 2014

Flyboys said:
Chef Willie, I thought the glaze was good. It was very sweet, so those who don't have a sweet tooth may not like it. My rub is sugar heavy too though, so keep that in mind. The kids aren't big spicy fans, so I usually keep it on the sweet side, unless it's for me and my wife. The cool thing was that the root beer taste came through. That's what I was shooting for. I would definitely recommend it to anyone. Let me know if you decide to try something like that.
I'll get the final pics posted in a few.

Good to know....I'm not against sweet, can often be balanced with some crushed red peppers...LOL.....thx

joshgrillinlawn · Nov 26, 2015

Man that's so cool. Gunna have to try. I love hickory and apple on ribs. I bet using a rb BBQ sauce glaze would be awesome.

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