Cheerwine BBQ sauce

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payson

Meat Mopper
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Nov 17, 2006
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10
Columbia SC
Hereâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s a sauce that recently appeared in the South Carolina State newspaper. They referred to it as an award winning sauce although they never elaborated. Looked pretty interesting although I havenâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t tried it. For non-southerners, Cheerwine is a cherry style soft drink. Tastes like Robitussin to me but I imagine it would work well in a sauce.


Cheerwine BBQ Sauce

Mix the following in a large pan over high heat:
1 12 oz can of Cheerwine
5 ounces molasses
6 ounces brown sugar
10 ounces of your favorite BBQ sauce. (Personally Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]d use my own home-made bone-suckin style sauce here but to each their own!)
2 ounces white vinegar
¼ tsp white pepper
¼ tsp cayenne
¼ tsp black pepper
¼ tsp crushed red pepper

Bring to a boil while stirring.

PS, it also mentioned the addition of one ounce of liquid smoke but that strikes me as borderline blasphemy!
 
This is the "house" sauce of Smoke-n-Stokes in Greenville SC. I believe Cheerwine is even the sponsor of their BBQ team. I'm not a huge fan of it since it is pretty sweet, but they have a whole stack of trophies that says I don't know what I'm talking about. Place has pretty good BBQ all the way around and they do a killer pulled pork stuffed potato.
 
Interesting. I'll have to give it a try next time I'm in Greenville. Pretty cool town.
 
Not just southerners anymore! Cheerwine is readily available throughout Topeka. I am a Diet Cheerwine fan. My work buys a case of it for our fridge just for me!
 
Sounds disgustingly sweet to me, but then again, that's me. Mr. Minimum sugar. I should make some for all the folk I know that b&^$@! about my sauces being too tart or tangy. Whining whimps, anyhow. Maybe I'll just smoke some LOLLYPOPS and serve 'em that...Hmmm...
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Oh YEAH!!!! I've got to try this!! I've been drinking Cheerwine all of my 54 years and still enjoy it....sounds like this could be a real nice.
 
In the past when makeing rib glaze with pop, i would cook it down to a syrup then add what ever spices/rub/pepper,onion/hotsauce to it. i may try it again with Cherrywine.
 
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