South Carolina Barbecue Gift Guide (2026)

There’s always a good reason to spread some meaty love of South Carolina around. Whether it’s family who misses home, or a friend who lives a little too far away, we all have someone in our life that misses the South and their Carolina roots.

Maurice's Comeback Box variety pack includes Ribs (2 half racks), hickory pit-cooked chopped BBQ pork (1 pound), chicken (1 pound) and our famous Carolina Hash (1 pint), plus a bottle of our secret heirloom recipe Southern Gold® Original sauce. Serve four with this southern BBQ feast.

Lewis Barbecue opened in June 2016 and since then it’s become renowned as one of America’s best BBQ joints for its honky tonk, laid-back Texas vibe, and expertly-smoked spare ribs, beef ribs, Texas “hot guts” sausage, turkey, and – most famously – legendary Prime beef brisket. This is real-deal Texas ‘cue from one of its most celebrated pitmasters, and now it’s shipping nationwide!

Home Team BBQ offers rub, sauce, and merchandise for order online. Rub it in at your next barbecue with their signature blend of spices or choose from all of Home Team’s signature sauces, for your next barbecue! You can even make their smoked chicken wings and Alabama white sauce at home.

It all started in the backwoods of Orangeburg, SC, when 10 year old Melvin was taught how to make the Golden Secret Barbecue sauce his daddy invented. Word spread of Big Joe's barbecue pork, cooked inside a pit dug deep in the ground, and slathered with his secret mustard-based sauce.

Today, David Bessinger carries on the tradition his father and grandfather created. You can get a taste of that history in a bottle of Melvin's Golden Secret sauce available in Melvin's online store. In addition, you'll find rubs, french fry seasoning, and more.

A SC BBQ legend, Shealy's Barbecue in Batesburg-Leesville has been serving the Columbia area since 1969. A great buffet and some special sauces are some of the reasons for their longevity. Now, you can get their sauce, gift cards, and more from their site:

Maurice’s Southern Gold® is the original secret recipe that started a South Carolina BBQ tradition – a sweet, tangy mustard-based sauce that is preservative-free, gluten-free and has no fat or cholesterol. Simply cannot go wrong with this sauce sampler pack:

The award-winning “Everything Everyday Sauce” is made in small batches composed with apple cider vinegar in the Eastern Carolina genre. It is hand crafted by local SC musicians and is always cooked, never processed - and hand stirred with passion. The ultimate condiment for breakfast, lunch and dinner. No cheap fillers, additive chemicals, dyes, thickeners, stabilizers, gluten or high fructose corn syrup.

"Prosser's BBQ Legacy is a family-owned business and we have been selling our award winning South Carolina BBQ sauces for over 30 years. We are now proud to offer these all-purpose sauces for sale online. Try them on pork, chicken, beef, shrimp.... "It makes everything good!"

"Since the family comes from a long line of German immigrants, the sauce had to be mustard-based. They scoured old family recipes and started with a base called “mustard gravy” from Bobby’s mother, affectionately known as Grandmother Wingard. After much trial and tasting, the “Wingard’s Gooddaddy BBQ Sauce” was born."

SATISFACTION TO THE BONE!
Carolina Bob's Grillin provides dry rub seasoning and sauces for grilling great food. Carolina Bob’s Grillin’ Splash adds flavor, tenderizes, and controls flare-up to turn any grill into a championship-level cooker!

Pair it with Carolina Bob’s Grillin’ Dry Rub & All-Purpose Seasoning! It’s not only for the grill, but it’s an all-purpose seasoning that complements any dish.

From grills to gravy, or omelets to okra, Carolina Bob’s Grillin’ Dry Rub will satisfy you to the bone!

Smokin' Coals and Buzz's Butt Dust are true SC BBQ originals created by the award-winning competition cook team. Smokin' Coals sauce is a multiple “State & National Award Winning Sauce” that has received praises from backyard cookers, Master BBQ Judges and Competition Cook Teams alike.

With its sweet tang, light peppery finish and just a hint of citrus, Smokin’ Coals has impressed cookers throughout the south where barbecue is not just food, but a way of life.

Smokin’ Coals is great on everything from pork, beef, seafood, burgers, even veggies. A sauce for dipping, basting and even marinating, Smokin’ Coals Sauce can become your “GO TO” sauce for everything.

There are three irresistible barbeque sauce flavors; Krazy K’s Original, Krazy K’s Kurly Tails, and Krazy K’s Red. This means meal magic for ribs, chicken, beef, pork, steak, fish and more. Even use it in your own favorite recipes, as a marinade, or the perfect condiment.

Krazy K’s will transform you into a Grill Master! The true Southern taste of each barbeque sauce will satisfy your taste buds, put the tongue in check, and have you coming back for more!

Created In Charleston, South Carolina. Fall In Love With Our Take On A Southern Staple: BBQ Sauce - Chipper Dog Style. Trust Us On This One, It’s Doggone Good. Chipper Dog is a premium BBQ sauce - perfect for pulled pork, ribs, chicken, steak & seafood. Next time your pack gets together for a BBQ, make sure to bring along Chipper Dog.

Charleston Pig Company famous BBQ sauce in a 12.5 oz bottle. This local South Carolina barbecue sauce is vinegar based along with tomato and spices that's slightly sweet. Use it pork, chicken or beef. Pair the sauce with the Charleston Pig Dry Rub Seasoning. The sauce is also available in a 64 oz (half gallon size) for the pro or backyard smoker.

Lillie's Hab Mussy Mustard BBQ Sauce has added heat while maintaining the sweet-tangy flavor of our original Mustard BBQ sauce recipe. Lillie's of Charleston Hab Mussy recipe, the proud winner of the 2010 Scovie Award, is guaranteed not to disappoint. The initial sweetness and flavor quickly give way to a slow burn hot lovers will enjoy. Our users have coined the term “sneaky heat” to describe the taste of this sauce.

Sauces, rubs and seasonings, along with gift cards and shirts can be found in the Pompous Pig online store.

Blue Moon Specialty Foods in Spartanburg offers gift boxes, gift baskets, personalized sauces, seasonings, and other South Carolina-made foods for holidays, hosts, clients, and other occasions.

Spears Acres in Belton sells its own barbecue rubs along with smoked meats and occasional gift boxes through its online shop.

Holy Smoke Smoked Olive Oil is first cold pressed extra virgin olive oil that we cold-smoke with hickory. The flavor is rich and buttery with a savory smoke that finishes with a subtle pepper. That's why we say, "It's like liquid bacon that's good for you!" 

Since its conception in 2010, Bobby's Seasoning has expanded to include 3 different blends, Bobby's All Purpose Seasoning (the original), as well as a Citrus Blend and a BBQ Rub.  All three seasonings are all natural, contain no additives, preservatives or MSG and are low sodium and gluten free.  

Bobby's BBQ rub packs a punch with the addition of extra pepper for your heavier meats that you are grilling or smoking such as brisket, Boston butts, ribs, steaks, etc. Get this one or all three on Bobby's website:

Collection of authentic SC BBQ sauces, meats, hash, and sides. Old Family Recipes, Helpful Pitmasters’ Secrets, Recipes and techniques from some of SC’s most respected pitmasters and from Great SC BBQ Restaurants, Whole Hog BBQ, Pit Building, and More

South Carolina pitmaster Rodney Scott shares the food, techniques, and stories behind his whole-hog barbecue in this cookbook, co-written with Lolis Eric Elie. The book covers pit-building, whole hog, ribs, turkey, chicken wings, sides, sauces, and the South Carolina barbecue traditions that shaped his cooking.

South Carolina has been home to good, old-fashioned barbeque for quite a long time. Hundreds of restaurants, stands and food trucks sell tons of the southern staple every day.

But the history of Palmetto State barbeque goes deeper than many might believe--it predates the rest of America. Native Americans barbequed pork on makeshift grills as far back as the 1500s after the Spanish introduced the pig into the Americas.

Since the early 1920s, South Carolinians have been perfecting the craft and producing some of the best-tastin' 'que in the country. Join author and president of the South Carolina Barbeque Association Lake E. High Jr. as he traces the delectable history from its pre-colonial roots to a thriving modern-day tradition that fuels an endless debate over where to find the best plate.

Charleston food historian Robert F. Moss traces barbecue’s history across America in this revised and expanded second edition, published in 2025.

Their "desire was to create a “naturally cured – never kiln dried” product in a way that would keep the integrity of the wood flavor. They started with just a few customers, never expecting to become the largest supplier of restaurant cooking wood in the area. Since then, wood chunks, mini splits, pizza oven splits and crafted charcoal have been created for backyard cooking. Our wood is naturally cured and our wood chunks are hand-packaged in organic, breathable burlap bags.

During this comprehensive class, owner Wayne Preston teaches groups of up to 20 students how to smoke meat, how to make sauces and rubs, how to barbecue at the correct temperature, what gadgets to use and where to get them, and the differences between regional barbecue styles.

The class includes a tour of the Bucky’s Bar-B-Q kitchen as well as a meal of barbecue pork and chicken, baked beans, coleslaw, and a grilled dessert. Students take home their own sauce and rub as well as all the recipes covered in class.