Baby Back Pork Ribs

This recipe comes from the Round Barn Winery in Baroda, Michigan. Check them out, they also make beer and vodka and teach lessons in winemaking!

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This recipe is for 3 racks of baby back pork ribs.

Dry Rub

1 box dark brown sugar
2 oz cinnamon
1 oz cumin
1 oz paprika
2 oz chili powder
1 oz cayenne pepper
1 oz dried thyme
1 oz Old Bay
1 oz onion powder
1 oz garlic powder
1 oz dried mustard
pinch kosher salt
fresh black pepper

Mix all ingredients for dry rub together. Rub onto ribs, generously. Squeeze a generous amount or commercial sauce onto ribs and cover with foil, marinate 24 hrs.

Take ribs out of frig and let stand 1 hour. Cook ribs for 3 1/2 hours at 225 degrees. Remove from oven and let cool.

Sauce

1 bottle Round Barn Cocoa Stout
dash cider vinegar
pinch mustard seed
remaining dry rub from ribs
1 bottle of your favorite commercial BBQ sauce
1 pound of smoked bacon

Pour beer, vinegar, and mustard seed into a sauce pan and reduce for 30 minutes. Add the remaining dry rub from the ribs and caramelize. Add one bottle of the BBQ sauce to the mixture and simmer for 1 hour. Add 1 pound of pureed, cooked bacon to the sauce and remove from heat, let stand overnite.

Grilling Instructions: Add and generous amount of BBQ sauce to each rack of ribs and grill until the sauce caramelizes and becomes crispy on the outside of the ribs. Cut and serv