I am grilling a lot this summer. As temperatures rise, few things say summer more than dinner from the grill. This sweet & messy barbecue sausage is a family hit.

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Sweet and Messy Barbecue Sausage is a family favorite.

We eat lots of grilled chicken with various marinades. We love grilled chicken, but this grilled sausage gives us a very needed reprieve from the chicken.

Sweet & Messy Barbecue Sausage is the taste of summer!

This is so easy. I just took Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce which is our favorite and added brown sugar before coating my smoked turkey sausage on the grill with a basting brush. This really couldn’t be any easier if I tried.

You'll need wet napkins with your dinner tonight. Sweet & Messy BBQ sausage is worth it.

My recipe is designed to feed teenage boys… teenage boys who love this sausage. As such, it is probably overkill for most families. I cooked 3 packages of smoke turkey sausage (13 oz each). In addition to giving the exact measurements I used, I would like to point out that I used a 3:2 ratio of BBQ sauce to brown sugar. I used 3/4 cup BBQ sauce and 1/2 (2/4) cup of brown sugar. You could easily use 3 tablespoons of BBQ sauce to 2 tablespoons of brown sugar (or 6 tablespoons to 4 tablespoons) to scale back the recipe. I had a little sauce left over but I might have used that too if I hadn’t been talking to my husband.

Sweet Baby Ray's makes this messy BBQ sausage extra delicious.

I prefer my sausage cut into quarters. I first cut each sausage in the middle then split each half long wise. I like the way it cooks up and gets more coverage from the sauce in this way. The sausages flip up and curl which gives me some bizarre satisfaction.