About ten years ago, we were grilling for dinner and ran out of barbecue sauce for the meat. Rather than wasting gas to go pick a bottle up from the store, or eating the meat dry, our family decided that we would try making our own sauce. As we began looking up the basic ingredients that go into barbecue sauce, we had the idea to write down the recipe we would concoct, just in case we needed to tweak the recipe or use it again.

After throwing some ingredients together—a little spice, a little sweet, a touch of tang—the Monkey Sauce was born after a single attempt. As we were blown away with the flavor and taste the sauce owned, we decided to name it and have anyone we knew try it.