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While debates between Eastern and Western BBQ continue, in North Carolina there are plenty of barbecue joints that aren’t chiming in. Instead, for places like Apple City BBQ, the focus is on producing “properly cooked, quality meat” – and not on whether you add tomato to your sauce or choose shoulder over whole hog.

That said, Apple City BBQ isn’t afraid to offer its own unique take on barbecue sauce – as long as that Apple City jalapeno lime sauce is on the side.

In the latest episode of The Low & Slow Barbecue Show, pitmaster and co-owner Adam Dula shares the story behind Apple City BBQ, as well as his insight on using real hickory and apple wood on the smoker. Listen and you’ll also get his advice for backyard barbecue enthusiasts.

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Apple City BBQ is a family-owned and operated barbecue business that serves diners Thursday through Saturday from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. Adam and his family have been serving guests at Apple City BBQ for seven years.

“Our specialty is the wood, ” Adam says, adding the all-wood requirement for the N.C. Barbecue Trail was a motivation. “All we’re doing is barbecue so we’re going to do it right. We cook everything strictly over wood coals.

With a menu that includes barbecue favorites like pulled pork, brisket, and ribs, as well as plenty of traditional sides and kids meals, Apple City BBQ has something for every palate (as long as that palate is barbecue).

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“We keep things very simple here. It’s nothing fancy, ” Adam says adding the restaurant seats about 60 at 15 tables. “Our menu is a big piece of paper, but it is simple as far as what is on it. … We don’t do diner food or hot dogs. It is brisket, chicken, or ribs.”

The large barbecue plate with pulled pork is the most popular request at Apple City, Adam says, “but brisket gains on it every day.”

“When we opened, most people around here hadn’t tried brisket, ” he continues. “If they had, it was chopped beef and sauce and they say they don’t like it.”

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Apple City BBQ provides catering and carry-out menu items that are perfect for a picnic, party or pre-game tailgate. Find out more about the business at applecitybbq.com

Situated in the shadow of North Carolina’s Brushy Mountains, Apple City BBQ is in Alexander County, N.C., about four miles south of downtown Taylorsville on NC 16.

“The property had been available a couple of years, ” Adam says, explaining the business started as he transitioned away from a career in nuclear cardiology to something closer to his home and growing family. “We cooked barbecue and people paid us for it for catering, off the books, and we started talking about it and got a plan.”

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“Taylorsville and Lenoir are not really hotbeds for authentic barbecue. Most places are getting it out of a bucket and heating it up, ” Adam says. “We’re the only ones in Taylorsville selling barbecue, so it’s not like we’re talking bad about anybody. There’s nobody else here, so there was a need for this area.”

The Apple City BBQ building is hard to miss, thanks to an original mural painted by local artist Melanie Taylor. She turned a 60-foot white wall into a building-sized pig, cow, and chicken in front of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

“We wanted to have something different so people coming by would stop and take a picture, ” Adam says. “We wanted something to uplift some people’s day, not something goofy, but something that is impossible to piss people off.”

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“We only offer our sauces on the side to compliment the meats, ” Adam shares. “Properly cooked, quality meat is much more important to us than sauce preference.”

“The sweet sauce, in our region is by far the most popular. People love the tomato-based sweet sauce, ” Adam says. “The vinegar comes straight from Sam Jones’ cookbook: apple cider vinegar, Texas Pete, salt and pepper. And it goes great with barbecue.”

Necessity is the mother of invention, and when your kitchen team gets tired of the standard sauces, it is time for something new.

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“We got tired of eating the other stuff, ” Adam says. “We make house-made pico for our nachos and fries. The morning I was making that and sauce at the same time, I thought maybe I would just throw some lime sauce in there and some jalapenos and see what happens.”

“As soon as I put it in there and started smelling it cooking, I thought, this is going to be good, ” he says. “It has a completely different flavor profile than the others, and with us having tacos and stuff on the menu, it brings a Tex-Mex flavor to the table if they want it.”

Adam shares ingredients below, but details on the quantities are up to you (the sauce master has to keep a few secrets, right?). He does offer this advice: go light on the crushed red pepper until you figure out how hot you want it.

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Jalapeño Line BBQ Sauce Recipe Ketchup Jalapeño Juice (simmered & strained) Real Lime Juice Apple Cider Vinegar Brown Sugar Texas Pete Hot Sauce Crushed Red Pepper Coarse Grind Black Pepper Table Salt Worcestershire Sauce Molasses Garlic Powder Onion Powder Hot Water to kick start simmering Cook until flavors blended. Bonus Recipe! Brisket Pimento Cheese Egg Rolls Chopped Brisket (chilled leftover) Pimento Cheese Fancy Shredded Colby Jack Cheese Coarse black pepper to taste Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Roll in egg roll wrapper/egg wash, then fry until golden brown and hot throughout.Monk: Sometimes the barbecue joint on a road trip finds you. On a trip with my daughter to a YMCA camp in the foothills of North Carolina, I was aware that one of many potential routes could take me near Apple City BBQ. But after being re-routed a few times due to Charlotte Friday rush hour traffic, I had no idea that it was actually on the route I was on until I literally drove right by it just south of the town of Taylorsville. After a quick check with the other passengers in my car, we turned around and by the grace of the barbecue gods, I was going to have barbecue for dinner that night.

Apple City occupies a small brick building right on NC-16 and on a Friday night, it was packed with locals. We happened to get lucky with a booth immediately available but by the end of our dinner the line had grown out the door.

I’ve been keeping up with Apple City via Instagram through recommendation from Garren of Jon G’s Barbecue. As it turns out, they previously had a non-barbecue working connection way back when and but now occasionally work with each other now in a barbecue-related capacity. Everything on Instagram looked promising but as any experienced barbecue traveller will vouch, looks can be deceiving. However, I had no idea just what I was in for.

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Seeing as how I wasn’t sure when the next time I’d be passing through Taylorsville, I went ahead and ordered the three meat combo of pork, ribs, and brisket. I would normally start with the pork at a NC barbecue restaurant, but this time I’ll start with the ribs which were my favorite of the three meats. I don’t tend to favor ribs but these dry ribs had a nice salty-sweet rub and were perfectly tender. The three meat combo comes with a quarter rack and I would have gladly taken at least another half rack.

The pork (and all meats, for that matter) is smoked over a mixture of hickory and apple woods, and the smoke certainly shone through in each meat. The tender, smokey pork more than stood up on its own but a few dollops of the red slaw enhanced the meat as it should.

The slice of brisket on first glance appeared a little dry but in reality it was simply just an above average slice of lean with plenty of flavor in the peppery bark. With a three meat platter you are of course going to get smaller portions of each, but as was the case with the ribs I would have gladly at least a few more slices of brisket.

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In addition to the red slaw, my other side was corn nuggets, a dish I had neither had the pleasure of trying nor heard of before. Turns out, they are deep fried morsels of creamed corn and they are redonkulous. I knew these wouldn’t last the trip so I tried to each as much of it as I could stand.

Apple City BBQ is a family-owned barbecue joint that is open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. They’ve been open since 2016 and are located on NC-16 south of Taylorsville and 17 miles northeast of Hickory. I wouldn’t consider that location to be the most convenient for most NC travelers as its not too close to any major highways. Regardless, all serious barbecue enthusiasts should make it a point to stop by for some great barbecue.

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