Specialty Crop

Bold barbecue seasonings, including JJ’s Sweet Rub (a sweet rub for beef, chicken, lamb, and pork—popcorn, too); Sweet Heat (sweet rub with a kick); Gunpowder (made with the three building blocks of barbecue seasoning: black pepper, sea salt, and granulated garlic); Gunpowder & Lead (chipotle, jalapeño, and habanero powder added to Gunpowder); and Twisted Gunpowder & Lead (a combo of the previous two with a punch of mango powder).

“When two grill fanatics couldn’t find what we needed for layers of smokehouse flavor, we created it,” says co-owner Jason Halvorsen.

Of their most recent addition, he notes, “Twisted Gunpowder & Lead is a very hot seasoning that has a unique flavor because of the addition of the mango powder. Unlike eating a ripe mango from the store, which is very sweet, mango powder is made from dried unripe mangoes and adds a sharp tart flavor to foods. The Twisted spice combo is great on large pieces of red meat, in red beer and Blood Mary’s, and on eggs.”