Best Spicy BBQ Sauce with Fireball Whisky

This Spicy BBQ Sauce with Fireball Whisky sauce is a quick, easy, and tasty condiment for your next cookout or barbecue need. Besides being so darn simple, it really is a unique recipe that adds exciting and fun flavors to your next grilling experience. Give this spicy BBQ Sauce a try!

🌶️ What makes this recipe special?

The best thing about this sauce is that it is easy to make! Just 10 minutes on your stovetop is all it takes to make your own BBQ sauce. With a ketchup base, it gives us a headstart in making our barbecue sauce.

Secondly, the flavor profile is super fun and unique. We add a few Thai chilis to the mix, giving our sauce a bit of zing. Then, Fireball whisky! This adds notes of cinnamon and that whisky flavor. 

It is easy to make, fun, and perfect for barbecue condiments or basting. We made this specifically to go along with a whole BBQ chicken, but his Fireball Whiskey BBQ Sauce would be great one for several recipes.

A great topping, perfect for beef ribs, as well as our chicken. It would be a good BBQ substitute on this Blackberry BBQ chicken thigh recipe or check out our How To Grill Porkchops Like a Boss recipe. 

🥃 Ingredients

With the exception of a few ingredients, most of these are fairly typical for a quick and easy BBQ sauce.

• butter
• garlic
• Thai chilis
• Ketchup
• Salt
• Black pepper
• chili powder
• Vinegar cider
• Worcestershire Sauce
• Molasses
• Fireball Whiskey

The two really unique ingredients in this barbecue sauce are the whiskey and the Thai Chilis. Both of these should be widely available. If not, other peppers or whiskey would work well. Heck, you could even omit them and still have a solid DIY barbecue sauce. 

See the recipe card for quantities.

🍲 Instructions

There isn’t much to this Spicy BBQ Sauce with Fireball whisky recipe. It is as simple as softening the chili and garlic in a bit of butter, adding the rest of the ingredients, and then simmering for about five minutes. 

🤷 Substitutions and variations

The two main unique ingredients of this barbecue sauce have the most potential for substitutions and variations. 

• Fireball Whiskey – I think this adds an interesting flavor, but any whiskey could work for this recipe. Jim Beam or Jack Daniels would be great substitutes. You could even omit this ingredient.
• Thai Chilis – Use your discretion on chilis. You can spice it up by adding a bit more or use less to make the sauce a bit milder and tone it down. You could also omit this ingredient and the BBQ sauce would still taste good.
• Spices – If there is a spice you don’t like or one you might want to try, go for it! 
• Vinegar – I use apple cider vinegar, but most vinegar would work. The point is to get a touch of that vinegary test in the sauce.

Like with all of my recipes, eat what you like! While I have tested this recipe as-is, I fully encourage experimentation in your kitchen!

📦 Storage

While I would not suggest freezing this recipe, this will keep well in the fridge for a few weeks. Place in a covered container and store in your refrigerator for up to two weeks. 

🎓 History tidbit

I think grilling is such a neat subject, as cooking over bare fire or charcoals is probably one of the oldest methods of cooking known to humankind. I wrote a whole article on the history of grilling that you can check out!

❓ FAQ

📝 Tips and tricks

• The sauce can be made ahead of time or on the same day that you cook the chicken.
• I use Fireball whiskey, but really any whiskey would work fine.
• Use enough Thai chili for your taste.
• Other chilis should be fine to use, per your liking, but make sure they are minced.
• I don’t use brown sugar in this recipe, as there is plenty of sugar in the ketchup and brown sugar is just molasses and sugar. We have both of these

🛠 Products used in this recipe

• Medium Sauce Pot
• Wooden Spoon

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