Sauce

A little while back I was given the challenge to help serve a friend in need. Matt Kingsley needs him some BBQ sauce and Ireland appears to be a land full of much goodness, but little sauce. To this end I purchased some fine sauces from our local grocery store (out of the plethora of choices available to us in Montana) and have tried some of them out on the occasional appropriate meats. The standout, so far, has been Cattleman's Smoke House (which is superb on leftover pork tenderloin sliced on a sandwich with melted cheddar). A quick read of the ingredients list and it seems at least plausible to duplicate the recipe with the exception of "Liquid Smoke". This is a product that I understand to be very difficult to come across "across the pond" begging the question, will it still be BBQ sauce with out the smoke? As we enter BBQ season with spring making its debut, we will start working on creating an acceptable BBQ sauce for those away from the curse of American Idol but sadly also away from a source of good sauce. Any advice, favorite sauces, family recipes, substitutions, lists of available ingredients, and beta testers are of course welcome.