Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Bolivar Pictures!






Here are a few pictures of our Bolivar BBQ trip. There is also a link to the album online with all the pictures in it. From the album, you can order pictures, download them, view them and what not.

Our Bolivar BBQ photo album

Enjoy!


Monday, October 22, 2007

Results for Hatchie Hollow Hog Fest

Hatchie Hollow Hog Fest, Bolivar TN October 20th, 2007

HOG


1st: Serial Grillers
2nd: Yazoo Delta Q
3rd: Huish Grill Team
4th: The Good, The Bad, and the Swine

SHOULDER

1st Serial Grillers
2nd Ghost River Smokaholics
3rd Optimus Swine
4th The Good, The Bad, and the Swine

RIB

1st Parrothead Porkers
2nd Pigs R Us
3rd Yazoo Delta Q
4th The Good, The Bad, and the Swine

Grandchampion = Serials Grillers (Shoulder)


Serial Grillers
Yazoo Delta Q
Huish Grill Team
The Good The Bad and The Swine
Ghost River Smokaholics
Optimus Swine
Parrothead Porkers
Pigs R Us
Smoking Pigs Barbecue Co.
Harley Hogg Smokers

Final Judges

Angela Denton
Frank Guarino
Kyle Dixon
Lanny Prichard

Hatchie Hollow, Bolivar Contest


Thank you for everyone who was able to attend our first BBQ contest at The Hatchie Hollow Bolivar contest this past weekend. We all had a great time and I had at least four or five folks come to me to say that they really liked our team (the people).

As you know by now, we were fortunate enough to have placed first in shoulder in the preliminary round then finished third. We also had a first place finish in both the anything but award with Johnny's stuffed chicken (The left overs went in 3- minutes so I never got a taste) and first place in anything but sauce (Jeff's tomato sauce). My personal goal was to not come in dead last, so over all - not a bad weekend.

This was a trial run for us, to kind of break in the rig, get use to setting up and giving the team members a cook out before we packed up for the winter. Well, it turned out to be something a little more special than that. Granted there were only 10 teams there, but there were some really big names there that we beat. This is a great start.

I would love to go down the list of names to thank everyone for what they did, but inevitably I would leave someone out, so I am just going to send out a huge thank you for all of you who contributed and helped out, we couldn't have done so well with out you. Hopefully everyone who showed up and who hadn't been to a BBQ contest for the work part, has a better understanding of how much work actually goes in to setting up, cooking, preparing, break down, etc.

Our next event is the UAB & Memphis game November 17th. This is basically going to be a tail gating party where we turn in some ribs and sauce. Should we be lucky enough to win, we will have our entry in to Memphis In May paid for and a $750 check. But lets focus on having fun.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Sell that Pork!

Here are the orders we have for competition grade pulled pork for the weekend of the 20th.

Ron Files - 4 pounds
Mike Reed - 5 pounds
Todd B. - 10 pounds
Brian McCoy - 5 pounds
Ed Pierce - 5 pounds
Cindy - 5 pounds
Olena Keene - 4 pounds


Spread the word to our friends and family. It's only $5.00 a pound for competiion pulled pork, it will cost us more than that to produce it.

Bolivar Update!

Ignore the rumors for now about the Bolivar BBQ contest not happening. We are on for Bolivar 100% according to the sponsor. We are working on an emergency back up plan should it happen to fall through, but it doesn't look like we'll need it.

UAB vs. Memphis Tigers Football

As most of you know, we have been excited about the UAB football game in November against Memphis here at home. Partly because of the rivalry and atmosphere, but also because we were planning to tail gate with the Smoking Rig starting the day before and inviting th BBQ Team to participate.

The two schools have been passing a trophy back and forth depending on who has won the game for a few years now. The trophy is a rack of ribs because of the history rib cooking has in both Birmingham and Memphis (Memphis is better of course).Well, it just got better, believe it or not. For the first time, they are going to have a rib only BBQ cooking contest with both schools invited to participate, professional and amateur teams alike.

There will be awards, trophies, and an entry in to Memphis In May BBQ contest awarded. The only other category is BBQ sauce. What a perfect cap to an already wonderfully planned weekend! Mark it on your calenders, and plan to be there.

Here is the link to read all about it.

http://gotigersgo.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/100307aaa.html

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Team Name Update

We have yet to come up with a permanent team name. We chose Optimus Swine for our first competition in Bolivar, because we had to put something on the application. Well, we have narrowed down our choices for the team name. Due to a tie between four of the choices, we will narrow the choices down to five instead of the planned three.


Here they are.

Optimus Swine
Bust-A-Que
Put a Pork in it
Pork the night away
Brine-Swine & Wine


Please email me your choices and list all five names in the order that you would pick them. There will be no voting on behalf of anyone else, your choices must come from you. Here's your chance to have a say, so have fun with it and get your votes in.