How to Make Carolina’s Lexington BBQ Sauce

Lexington BBQ Sauce recipe

Pork barbecue affinity among North Carolinians is sharply divided. On each side of the state the preparation of the pig is different. So, too, is the vinegar-based barbecue sauce. Within the nuance of “eastern” vinegar-based sauces, there’s Lexington BBQ sauce.

Barbecue Chicken Beginnings of the Low & Slow Barbecue Show

Beer can chicken on the grill,

A wood-handled mop rests in a glass jar half-filled with a brownish liquid. In one fluid motion, the grill lid opens, and a big hand finds the mop. Another finds the jar. With a few sloppy slaps, flavor streams across barbecue chicken halves, sending a savory scent sizzling up from smoldering coals.