Code 3 Spices started as a competition team outside St. Louis: Chris Bohnemeier and his friend Mike Radosevich, a police officer of fifteen years, bottling what was working for them.

Patriot is a St. Louis competition-style sauce. It's thin and glossy, sweet up front with a little heat behind it, and it won the tomato sauce category at Memphis in May in 2018.

No high fructose corn syrup, MSG free and gluten free, like everything Code 3 makes. A quarter from every bottle goes to organizations that support police, fire, EMS and the military.

Ribs, chicken, and pork steaks if you want to do it the St. Louis way.

With more heat: Code 3 Patriot Sauce SPICY. The mustard version: Patriot Sauce Gold.