Southern Star Brewery out of Conroe, Texas. Pine Belt Pale Ale. This Pale ale was very refreshing. It had a nice copper color and tasted great. The British crystal malts and hops have a great hop flavor and aroma. The Ale had a creamy taste to it. The Piney hops give the pale ale a slight sweet taste. It also had a slight note of citrus. Made from deep ground water from the Evangeline Aquifer. This Non-filtered, non pasteurized ale is packaged into cans to ensure a great fresh quality. Rated 4.8 outta 5-D

Best Maid out of Fort Worth Texas. This Texas based company started in a small town called Mansfield Texas. Mildred Dalton and Jessie Otis Dalton started this company in their own home and expanded to his grocery store in Fort worth Texas in 1926. This company has many products. The Best Maid Dill Pickles were great tasting. They have a good crunch to the pickled cucumber and this inside was soft. The flavor of dill and salt was very prominent. The taste was refreshing and had a slight garlic flavor. Best Maid is the official pickle of the Dallas Cowboys. I really liked this product and look forward to trying more of Best Maid products. Rated 4.25 out of 5-D

Garland Jack’s Secret Six Hickory Spice Barbeque Sauce. Haven’t been disappointed yet with Garlands. Great price and great taste. Good amount of hickory flavor and it meshed well with the spices. A hint of sweetness in it as well. It’s not my personal favorite sauce out there, but it’s a great go to sauce for any meat. Haven’t found anything that it doesn’t go well with, even put it on a hot dog in place of ketchup! Rated 4.5 outta 5-A

This is the second sauce we reviewed from this Garland Texas based company.Garlands Jacks Hickory spice bbq sauce was good. It was a little more thick of a sauce than I usually like. It had a good hickory flavor and a slight spiciness at the end. It has bold flavors and a good inexpensive price. Not a “gourmet” sauce but still would go well with any grilled or smoke meat(if needed) Rated 3.95 outta 5-D

Blue Bell Cookies and Cream Ice Cream. Ah, Blue Bell, can’t knock it and there’s never any reason to. Have yet to be disappointed with this Texas Company. Basic flavor, almost every ice cream company makes cookies and cream. But what sets Blue Bell aside is the quality, homemade ice cream made the old-fashioned way. The richness of the cookies and cream flavor were phenomenal ( as usual). There wa s a cookie piece in every bite (the way a cookies and cream ice cream should be). Beautiful, strong taste of vanilla that complimented the cookies perfectly. It is said that Blue Bell was the first to come up with the cookies and cream ice cream, though many others have tried taking the credit (I believe Blue Bell). Rated 4.9 outta 5. -A

DL Jardines is located in Buda, Texas. The Salsa Bobos is a salsa that has black beans and corn. This salsa was very good. I liked the taste. I usually don’t like black beans, but this salsa was the exception. It had a nice slight heat to it. The corn and the black beans tasted good together with the rest of the traditional all natural salsa ingredients. This salsa would be good as a dip or over meat or fish. This is another good product from the DL Jardines special edition line of salsas. Rated 4 out of 5. -D

Kiolbassa Jalapeno cheddar beef smoked sausage based out of San Antonio, TX! This was some of the best sausage I’ve had. Tender, succulent, and perfect casing. Unlike some other brands this sausage had a lot of jalapeno chunks to where you could taste it in every bite! Perfect. Beautiful smoked flavor that didn’t overpower the rest of the flavors. Tasted great on its own, and with BBQ sauce. Definitely give it a try if you haven’t already, it won’t disappoint! Rated 4.8 outta 5. -A

Kiolbassa Sausage Company out of San Antonio Texas. The jalapeno cheddar smoked beef sausage tasted great. It had a good smoked flavor and lots of finely diced jalapenos in it. It had a nice jalapeno and cheddar taste, It wasn’t over powering. The casing was nice and wasn’t too tough. I think this may be on the top of my list for Jalapeno cheddar sausages. Rated 4.85 outta 5.-D

D.L. Jardine’s Habanero Salsa labed as XXXHOT. Well I can definitely tell you it was hot! I did feel it in my chest for quite some time after consuming the salsa, which isn’t too much of a bad thing! The thing that really stood out for me was that even though it packed a lot of heat, the heat didn’t overpower the rest of the flavors in the salsa. I could still taste all the tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, carrots, etc... Had a great flavor profile, they all meshed well together. Even though it’s hot, don’t be afraid to give it a try sometime if the heat isn’t your thing. You’d be surprised how good it is and the heat doesn’t take away from the actual salsa. 4.8-5 -A

DL Jardines out of Buda Texas. The Habanero salsa was great. One of my favorite salsa’s I have ever tried. It has a great heat to it. The salsa has nice big chunks of all natural tomatoes, onions, bells peppers, and Habanero peppers. It is spiced nicely. It may be a little intimidating to some people to see the pieces of habanero that may make you think it going to be too much heat. It does have a great amount of heat but the heat from the habaneros do not overwhelm the rest of the flavors. Rated 5 outta 5.-D