Awesome! I live a couple hrs away from the phx area and will be stopping in to check it out! Thank you for the advice!
Those are great recommendations above for finding different dry rubs, but I offer 1 caveat.
Tasting a dry rub sample without food, (i.e., sprinkling a little bit on your palm and tasting it with your tongue) does not always let you know the complex effect that particular dry rub might have on a particular piece of slow-cooked meat.
For example, you may not enjoy the taste of a particular dry rub during tasting, but after that same rub has been working its magic on a piece of meat and interacted with that meat for hours during cooking, it may impart a more pleasing and subtle benefit that can't be known from just licking a dry sample