Heath Riles cooks out of Olive Branch, Mississippi, just across the state line, He's won the rib category at Memphis in May three times, in 2022, 2024 and 2025, and in 2025 he was named Grand Champion. This is the sauce underneath a lot of that.

A thick, competition-style sweet sauce. Brown sugar and honey lead, with a little mustard and tamarind in the background keeping it from tasting like candy. Heath spent more than fifteen years working on it before it went into a bottle.

Glaze ribs with it at the end of the cook, put it on a pulled pork sandwich, or use it as a dip. If you're only buying one Heath Riles sauce, start here.

The tangy one: Heath Riles Tangy Vinegar. The one Heath mixes this with on ribs: Competition BBQ Sauce.