Passow Still Thinks Marco Should Be Famous
It’s been quite a while since I reviewed anything by Marco’s Sauces so I checked up with him to see what he’s been working on. All is a-okay in his world and he sent me over his soon to be released Tequila Beer BBQ Sauce to check out.
Marco’s Not Quite Famous Tequila Beer BBQ Sauce Ingredients: Tomato Catsup, lager beer, dijon mustard, roasted Red Bell peppers, roasted onions, garlic, Tequila, cider vinegar, Habanero peppers, Jalapeno peppers, molasses, salt, brown sugar, worchestcher sauce, vegetable oil, corn starch, natural hickory smoke, blend of spices.
This is a medium thickness BBQ sauce that has some nice, small chunks in it. What one gathers from a quick look at the ingredients list is Catsup is the first ingredient, so it’ll come with no surprise that this sauce is dominated by that flavor. So much so that I almost don’t want to say that this is a BBQ sauce, but in fact a fantastically flavorful Catsup. And if you are wondering, I like the Catsup spelling over the Ketchup because it gives the feeling that some felines were harmed in the making of this product (darn overassertive cats…..evil I say! Evil!).
Up next on the flavor wheel is the mustard (god I hate mustard, it’s more evil than cats) which seems to pair decently with the Catsup. Following that I get a hint of onions and then a full hit of garlic trailed by some Red Bell pepper sweetness mixed in with the brown sugar. Then the worchestcher makes its appearance along with a little Habanero fruitiness. There is a little basil taste that I’m detecting along with maybe some peppercorns. The Jalapeno and the smoke flavors come in mainly on the aftertaste.
The heat is there and I would label this as a Medium. The tingle starts in the center of the tongue and builds slightly, then dies down to a subtle warmth. I found that when cooking with this, the flavor doesn’t change that much. The Catsup taste mellows slightly and the sweetness comes a little more to the forefront, but that’s about it.
One of the things I’m a little disappointed by is the lack of Tequila and beer flavor that is so prominently advertised on the front of the bottle. To be sure, I had a bunch of my friends try it and their results were the same. This is a good sauce but I do feel that some slight tweaking needs to be done. More Tequila and beer flavor (maybe a different type is more appropriate, it all depends on what type of Lager Marcos used), a little less Catsup, and a little more sweetness.
Taste: 6.1, Heat: 5.7
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Commented at May 31, 2009- 9:00 pm
The ingredient list is very problematic. First the catsup needs an ingrdient breakdown, then the dijon mustard needs the same, but the biggest problem may be the worchestcher sauce(copied your spelling) this product often contains wheat and soy, and occaisionally anchovies. As those are major allergens, this manufacturer may want to change future labels and apply an ammended ingredient list sticker to the label that already exists.
Commented at June 1, 2009- 9:28 am
Sam, on the bottle they are listed in full. That was a mistake on my part. I did a quick copy a few days prior of the ingrdients list but didn’t reedit for my review. Later today or tomarrow, I’ll put the full list in the comment here.
Commented at June 2, 2009- 10:42 am
Ok, here’s the full ingredients list and you are right, Sam. Worchestcher sauce isn’t listed in full as to the full ingredients.
Marco’s Not Quite Famous Tequila Beer BBQ Sauce Ingredients: Tomato Catsup (tomato paste, water, high fructose corn syrup, distilled vinegar), lager beer, dijon mustard, roasted Red Bell peppers, roasted onions, garlic, Tequila, cider vinegar, Habanero peppers, Jalapeno peppers, molasses, salt, brown sugar, worchestcher sauce, vegetable oil, corn starch, natural hickory smoke, blend of spices.
Commented at June 4, 2009- 6:58 am
Sam, the list for the Worcestershire sauce is not needed as no malt vinegar nor anchovies are used, the thing is needed in there is the list for the lager, where i am still waiting to hear back from anheuser-busch to send me the complete list.
Jon, if you put more booze in it it will overpower the rest of the ingredients, as for the catsup….tomato base basic bbq sauces are made out of tomato paste, vinegar, sweetner, spices…
Hmmmm…CATSUP..!!!..:)
As for the sweetner..blah….its sweet enough already, if you want sweeter go get honey bbq..:)
This sauce with the bourbon bbq and extreme bbq are the best seller at the restaurant, they outsell the salsa almost 10-1.
Thanks Jon, maybe another package will arrive soon.
Commented at June 4, 2009- 5:26 pm
Looking at the restaurant pics again, I know I gotta come for a visit soon. I am only an hour away so one weekend I am coming up for some ribs. Maybe some of Robin’s chocolate cake in a doggie bag to go.
Commented at June 4, 2009- 8:36 pm
Cool, just to be clear, I am not the label police or anything like that. Just trying to help out when I know something needs to be listed in a certain way. The worchestershire sauce does however need to be listed parenthetically with a break down of ingredients, regardless of what they are.
Commented at August 24, 2009- 10:35 am
I was talking with Marcos about this product at this years Weekend of Fire. He had me try a new batch of it and there is definitely a Beer and Tequila presence to it. Turns out that the cook had a rough day and dipped into those two ingredients for the batch I received for review, thus lowering the presence of them in the sauce…oops.