National Barbecue Association 2004 Awards of Excellence for sauces. Bethany Blues won:

• Top 2 in Barbecue Marinades for our Bethany Blues Papaya Grilling Sauce
• Top 5 in Tomato Spicy for our Bethany Blues Spicy BBQ Sauce!

"I consider it no surprise that the best barbecue I ever had was cooked over a backyard smoker in the drop-dead heat of a Delaware summer, then served right off the grill onto my anxiously quivering paper plate. This was food meant to be eaten simply, messily, in great mouthfuls of sweet meat crusted with char and oozing unapologetically with fat..."

• September 10, 2004, Review by Eric Ruth, Wilmington News Journal