Apple BBQ Sauce, 19 oz.

Apple BBQ Sauce is Northern Michigan apple, sweet and smoky, an apple barbecue sauce that lifts chicken and ribs without burying them.

Traverse Bay Farms sits in the fruit country of Northern Michigan and builds this one on real apple. It runs sweet and smoky and smooth, made to carry the meat rather than smother it, which is why it plays so well on lighter cuts. The maker has a wall of national food awards behind the name, so this is a fruit sauce that knows what it is doing.

Glaze ribs and pork chops in the last stretch, brush it over grilled or smoked chicken as it comes up to temp, or mop it across a pork shoulder through a long cook. Thin enough to brush, sweet enough to caramelize, easy to keep going back to.

• Ribs and pork chops
• Grilled and smoked chicken
• Pork shoulder and pulled pork
• Grilled sausage and brats
• Chicken wings