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Scott Smith, his wife Lynn, their son Christopher, and Mitchell Bedwell share big smiles after winning Grand Champion of the Calhoun, GA KOA Campground’s, 2nd Annual Smokin’ Up the Campground BBQ Competition December 7, 2013.
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■ Audrey Evans.............Page 4 ■ Moultrie, GA..............Page 3 ■ “Famous Dave” ....... Page 6 ■ Jacksonville, FL ....... Page 7 ■ SCBA ........................ Page 8 ■ National BBQ Cup...Page 10 ■ Elba, AL ................... Page 12 ■ Jeff Petkevicius.......Page 13
■ Classifieds .............. Page 15 Official Publication of:
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By Audrey Evans Editor & Publisher
To the northwest of Atlanta and to the east of the Alabama state line is a town named Cedartown, Georgia and that is where you might find Scott Smith on a normal day. Scott owns and operates Southern Q Smokers but keeps his feet wet on the BBQ circuit too. Scott was one of the final ten teams to compete the second day in Las Vegas, has had mul-
tiple perfect 180 scores and is a member of the 700 club. After all this information it should be no surprise that Scott and his team, Que’n, Stew’n & Brew’n would take home Grand Champion prizes in Calhoun, Georgia December 7 at the Calhoun KOA Smokin’ Up the Campground. Friday night started off with lots of good drinks, food, fun and friends at the Battle of Bands and continued on at the campsites which kept the good warm fire, like Scott Smith. Saturday morning, it was absolutely cold, wet and dreary
but teams, judges, reps and attendees bundled up and went at it for the love of BBQ as turn ins began and the day dredged on. Dealing with the weather appeared to affect a lot of the cook teams in this strong field of sixty-five teams. At the end of the day, Scott Smith had pulled it out with a total 698 score with a second place in brisket, fourth place in pork, seventh place in ribs, and thirty-third in chicken. Pitmaster Tim Grant from Truebud BBQ out of Tonganoxie, Kansas was hot on pursuit for the day as he vied for the first place
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December 2013
PAGE 2 spot for Team of the Year for Choppers with a first place finish in KCBS 2013 with Donny Bray of ribs, fourteenth finish in brisket, a Warren County Pork Choppers. thirty second chicken, and a thirty Tim pulled it out as he walked away eighth in pork. with Reserve Grand Champion afRandall Bowman took Deep ter calls of fourth place in chicken, South BBQ to a first place in chickfourth place in ribs, eighth place en and finished with seventeenth in brisket, and thirty first in pork. overall as he had a thirteenth in Donny finished the day tenth place pork, thirty fifth in pork ribs, and overall for Warren County Pork fortieth in brisket. CHICKEN: PORK: 1. Deep South BBQ 178.3200 1. Killer B’s BBQ 2. Smoke Me Silly 176.5828 2. Midnight Burn 3. Killer B’s BBQ 176.5600 3. Pig Whisperers 4. Truebud BBQ 176.5600 4. Que’n Stew’n & Brew’n 5. Naked ‘Que 176.0116 5. Curly Tails BBQ 6. Squealz On Wheelz 175.4400 6. Two Old Men And A Grill 7. Bub-ba-q 175.4056 7. Shake ‘N Bake BBQ 8. Moyers Competition BBQ- 175.4056 8. German Redneck Cook9. Tenacious Q 174.8800 9. Smoke This 10. Pig Whisperers 174.8572 10. Smokin Hoss -
THE BBQ TIMES DECEMBER 2013 Jim & Jan Burg took home first BBQ - 695.3368; 5. Midnight place pork for Killer B’s to Evans, Burn - 694.7884; 6. Pig WhisGeorgia and Jeff Campbell took perers - 694.2860; 7. Smoke home a first place perfect 180 score Me Silly - 693.1200; 8. Wicked in Brisket to Watkinsville, Georgia. Que - 691.3828; 9. Smoke This OVERALL POINTS: 689.0624; 10. Warren County Pork 1. Que’n Stew’n & Brew’n Choppers - 688.4796 - 698.2512; 2. Truebud BBQ - 696.0000; 3. Shake ‘N Bake Jeff Campbell takes home first BBQ - 695.9428; 4. Killer B’s place brisket for Wicked Que. RIBS: BRISKET: 177.7028 1. Warren County Pork Chop 177.7372 1. Wicked Que 180.0000 177.1428 2. Rockin’ The Smoke 177.1544 2. Que’n Stew’n & Brew’n - 178.2972 176.5600 3. Two Old Men And A Grill 176.5600 3. Pig Whisperers 177.7372 175.4400 4. Truebud BBQ 175.4628 4. Johnny Mitchell’s Smoke- 177.7028 174.2972 5. Tenacious Q 175.4172 5. Shake ‘N Bake BBQ 177.7028 173.7028 6. Old Plantation BBQ 174.2744 6. Smoke Me Silly 177.1544 173.7028 7. Que’n Stew’n & Brew’n - 173.7028 7. Midnight Smokers Mj 177.1428 173.1200 8. Diggin Que-ga 173.1316 8. Truebud BBQ 176.5600 172.5828 9. Templar Temptations 173.1200 9. Jaestar BBQ 175.4056 172.5600 10. Bald Hawg BBQ 173.1200 10. Uncle Bud’s BBQ 174.8456
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Cookin With Stump’s Perfect Score Takes Moultrie By Jim Sewell Vice - President GBA
MOULTRIE, GA - DECEMBER 7, 2013 - The Cooking with Stump team of Walter “Stump” & Tab “Mama Stump McDowell racked up a perfect 600 score in the Pork Loin Finals to capture the Grand Championship at the Moultrie Moose Lodge BBQ Con-
test. Pitmaster Joe Wright of Bethel Smokers, made finals in all three categories leading you to think he would take home Grand but instead he went to claim the Reserve Grand Championship. Cooking with Stump’s perfect score lead the way in Pork Loin. Bethel Smokers took second place with
Colquitt Cookers in third place. In fourth place was 92 BBQ who was 1 point better than Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack in fifth place. 92 BBQ took top honors in Pulled Pork. Bethel Smokers once again was second with Barbecue Crew in third place. Sunset Smokers took home fourth place. Jethro’s Cooking Crew took
5th place by winning the tiebreaker over Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack. Colquitt Cookers missed a perfect score in the Ribs Finals by 0.3 of a point to take first in the category. Bethel Smokers was runnerup for the third time. Just Smokin’ Around took third place. Sunset Smokers claimed fourth place. Lightnin’ Strike BBQ rounded out the top five.
The GBA will take a few weeks off for the holidays then swing back into action with the Jekyll Island BBQ Beach Bash on January 31 – February Bethel Smokers takes home Reserve 1, 2014. Grand Champion.
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DECEMBER 2013
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Another Year in BBQ has Come and Gone
Audrey Evans Publisher & Editor
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Well, December is here. And here I am still wondering what happened to February it seems like. This year has been a hand full. I thought I would go crazy at times but in the end, here I sit.
When I started working on putting the December edition together I realized I was beginning on Volume number 5 of The BBQ Times or better yet, November was Edition one, Volume 5 and December is Edition two. First off I was immediately embarrassed at this horrible mistake I had made. There is no telling what my grandfather would have to say about that one, I can hear it now. But, it was the after thought that became more thought provoking. I came to realize, this meant I have overcome four years of producing this newspaper. I have already started into year five and I didn’t even realize it. There are many friends
out there that can vouch those four years have not all been the best. They have been hard work. They have been sleep less nights, tears, smiles, FUN, stressful, and even overwhelming moments mixed all together. There were times I didn’t know if I would make it and there were times when you couldn’t knock me down with a stick, I was so happy and “high”. The average person has no idea what I do to put this newspaper together, I don’t even half the time. It comes naturally at this point, it’s what I know, it’s what I love to do. In November, I mentioned that I was thankful for BBQ and my life I have been given with The BBQ Times. Back in 2010, when my fa-
ther through out the words, “Why don’t you bring the BBQ paper back?” in answer to me finding a part time job after school, I really don’t think I even then knew what I was getting into. A lot of ways, I still feel today I don’t. But when I think at what I have been able to accomplish in the last four years with this newspaper and the fact it is no longer a part time job. It is a full time job that I have acquired as a new lifestyle. It’s a job that I love and I wouldn’t change for a moment. The BBQ world has enabled me to accomplish dreams that I did not know were possible. I have met some of the most amazing people and made some lifelong friends. When I look at the BBQ World, it’s some-
where I see myself spending many years of my life being involved in and that is something I look forward to daily. One thing I firmly stand behind in the world of BBQ is the relation to family. You don’t have to know anyone your entire life, you might just meet them randomly at a competition and next thing you know you have a life long friend. We spend every weekend together, we are one big family. I have truly been blessed to have this journey and I look forward to the many things to come for everyone in 2014. I really cannot wait for the year to begin and be apart of the many great memories that will be made.
So you see, the three things I am truly Thankful for are pretty simple. It does come down to BBQ, family and the great blessings from above. I hope you enjoy the Christmas Greetings Supplement in this edition. It is a great thing from the many cook teams, BBQ enthusiast and companies in the BBQ world. During this CHRISTmas season, let’s all remember the reason for the season and all the things we do have to be Thankful for in this world. There is too much negative out to let it weigh us down. Continue to think of the positive things, and move forward to an amazing year ahead. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
where I go. I am not sure what it is about this time of year that gets everyone in the mood to cook but there are always plenty of cookies, fudge, haystacks, and snacks no matter where I am. This year I decided to look at food that I could keep out for guests that come over to the house, or snack on myself. I am a big fan of nuts as a cure for the munchies. Pecans, almonds, peanuts, hazelnuts, brazil nuts, cashews, and shoot I love them all. By themselves, mixed, on top of a Dairy Queen sundae, you name it and I am most likely a fan.
Pondering being a great pass time of mine, I took to figuring out if I should go salty, sweet or savory. Oh the possibilities are endless. After some brief experimenting I decided that I would smoke almonds, pecans, and pumpkin seeds. While technically not a nut, we had pumpkin seeds left over from Thanksgiving so why not use them as well. I thought about dressing each item a couple of different ways and after some experimenting I found that I like pumpkin seeds just mixed with season salt and cooked until nice and crunchy. We have roasted pumpkin seeds for years in the oven, but the smoke added a really nice punch to the seeds and the kids just loved these. I found that almonds require more smoking time to really get a solid smoke flavor to penetrate throughout. I love chocolate covered almonds and while sweet is ok, I decided to have my almonds on the spicy side. These make a great snack
for watching football or just during the day when you want a little crunchy snack. Pecan pie being my favorite pie I enjoyed finding a sticky sweet recipe for half of my pecans. The other half I went with only the smoke flavor just enhanced the natural flavor of the pecan. I think the plain pecans would go great in a Chex party mix which I am going to have to add to my To Do list. Because Pecans are a softer nut, the first batch I smoked was almost too strong and the smoke was overpowering for my taste. I found that they require about half the time it takes to smoke the almonds
to reach a pleasant balance between the natural pecan flavor and the smoke.
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Wooley Bully Mafia Strikes Again in Jacksonville By Audrey Evans Editor & Publisher
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA - On November 22-23, 2013 in the quaint little campground called Flamingo Lake RV Resort, the introduced a new event called the Smokin’ Flamingo BBQ and Music Fest. It was a first annual event, but plans are already under way for the next year to come.
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Our first ever Darlington Speedway Speed and Feed Festival. This event was held on November 6 & 7. What an event, the Ladyin-black Racetrack, a great carshow, outstanding entertainment, and of course some of the best BBQ in the state. The winners were; 1st place –Smokin’ Stacks =Pitmaster Larry Bowling, 2nd Place –No Pig Left Behind – Pitmaster Doug Quinn, 3rd Place – Palmetto Smokehouse.
1st place in Darlington – Smokinʼ Stacks Pitmaster Larry Bowling
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Our last event of 2013 was the Conway St. Nicholas Festival. Always a great event around the beautiful setting of Conway. Winners were: 1st place All-smokeup Gary Taylor, Pitmaster, 2nd place Up In Smoke– Brian Teague, Pitmaster, 3rd Place Smokinn’ Stacks , Jeff Smith, Pitmaster.
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POMPANO BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 25-26, 2013 Big Papa rolled the dice at the Isle Casino’s 2nd Annual Pro Barbecue Contest in Pompano, FL and came up a winner. 2nd in Ribs and Pork beat the house, giving head cook Dana Hillis his third Grand Championship of the year. Hot Wachula’s, Matt Barber, who is only one point out of 1st Place in the 2013 Team of the Year standings, was Reserve out of 26 cook teams. Tommy Harden took Blitzkrieg BBQ to first place in chicken; Isle Stud Porkers took first place in pork, Tillmasn’s BBQ Took home first place in Brisket and Jim Elser of Sweet Smoke Q took home first place in Ribs. 1. Big Papa’s Country 2. Hot Wachula’s 3. Sweet Smoke Q 4. Blitzkrieg BBQ 5. Isle Stud Porkers 6. Bar-B-Que This 7. Git-R-Smoked 8. Tillmans BBQ 9. Florida Skin-n-Bones 10.The Q
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Moyers Competition BBQ Team Claims Tops the Charts at “NBC” Article by Jan Jeup-Wilson
CUMMING, GA - NOVEMBER 18, 2013 - The National BBQ Cup, in its third year, is the largest barbecue event in Georgia and one of the largest in the country and took place at the Cumming Fairgrounds in mid-November. This prestigious event is well organized by Randall Bowman, who says it’s gotten a little bigger each year! This year, Bow-
man was able to conquer the red tape and provide the attendees with its first ever Beer Garden. Bowman said, “Beer should be a big financial boom for the event and the community.” Bowman and his crew at “NBC”, The National BBQ Cup, always ensure there is plenty to do for those that come out for the event. There is an opportunity to purchase “Tasting Tickets” and cast your vote for your
favorite “Que” – this always gets the public involved and anxious to take part. They have a huge kid’s play area with lots of fun inflatable and interactive games for the kids, there was a kids bungee bounce that brought lots of screams and squeals, not to mention the face painting. There were vendors galore with great shopping for all. Moyers Competition BBQ Team pulled out is first ever Grand Champion at the 3rd
Moyerʼs Competition BBQ Team takes home Grand in Cumming, GA at the National BBQ Cup. They are shown here with Scott Smith and his son, Christopher, Melissa Moyers, Bill Perkins, Jeremy Moyers, Case Moyers, Tim Thomas and Don Adams celebrating the win! Photos by The Southern Girls BBQ Roadshow
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annual National BBQ Cup. The team is comprised of Pitmaster Jeremy Moyers and his father-in-law, Bill Perkins – known by all, simply as, “POPS”! Jeremy said his first reaction to hearing their team called as
Grand Champion was one of “Utter Shock! There were some of the best competitors in the country cooking this contest, so we had no expectations going in. We were also surprised to hear our name called last because
we only received one call, 1st place pork. There were several teams with multiple calls, so we just knew that we were out of contention for the win. In fact, we were pretty disappointed because John Hale called the top 15
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DECEMBER 2013 overall, and when he got down to the top 5 we just knew that we didn’t even make it into the top 15. So we went from disappointment to utter shock within a split second!” Moyers also says this win is special on many levels – “First, Randall Bowman has become one of my best friends over the past year, so to get our first win at his contest was amazing! Second, this was our first contest cooking on and representing our newest sponsor, Southern Q Smokers. We had been looking into making a move away from our Jambos for a while, and made the decision to move to a Southern Q Gravity feed about a month before this contest. Tim Thomas and Scott Smith are great guys and have been amazing to work with! I was very happy to be able to pull off our first grand at the first contest that we cooked on their cooker.” Moyers was dead on when he said this event had some of the best competitors in the country; “NBC” drew the likes of Donny Bray with Warren County Pork Choppers who claimed Reserve Grand, Anthony Sutton and the crew of Curly Tails took home several trophies including 3rd overall, Tina Cannon with The Pit Crew made a few walks to the stage and finished with 4th overall, and Tommy Hous-
ton of Checkered Pig heard his name called a few times with the last as 5th overall. Many other big name teams were also present for the 3rd annual “NBC”, including; Swiggin’ Pig, Parrothead Smokers, South Pork, Pellet Envy, 4:20 Q, Que’n-Stew’n-N-Brew’n,
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Anthony Sutton and his team of “Curly Tails” took home third place overall earing walks to the stage for first place brisket, third place chicken, and seventh place pork.
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Winning Grand Champion in God’s Eyes
Jeff Petkevicius Pitmaster Give it To God yokedup@gmail.com God has His own mathematics. Here’s one of His formulas: Rejection + Mistakes = Victory.... See what I mean. Let me explain. Several months ago, I was contacted by a TV Production company looking to put together a BBQ and God show. Perfect fit, wouldn’t ya say ? Went through the whole interview process and made it to the network who – rejected – me as a competitor. The production company was impressed with me so much, they wanted to pursue having me be a regular part of the show as a judge. Go through the on-camera interview process again, pitched to the network again... and – rejected. Filming for the pilot took place the weekend of Nov 16. The KCBS contest in Plant City, FL was on my schedule for weekend of Nov 16. I went through all of my week long preparations, mentioned
where I was going several time on Facebook and made the 11 hour drive to Tampa and over to Plant City. I got there around 4 PM and was struck by the lack of teams. It looks like the spot for the competition and there were some men working on the electrical hook-ups. I stopped and asked if I was in the correct location. The man said, “yes, but the contest is Next Weekend”! Sure enough, I looked at my watch, and the paperwork and I was an entire week early. The sinking feeling in my gut was enormous. I feel like a complete fool and idiot. The MISTAKE. I couldn’t believe I had made that HUGE of a mistake. With my tail between my legs, I called my sweet wife who was completely understanding and told me to just come on home. Off I went, refueled and started back home looking at another 11 hour ride. Just before I left, I put a quick post on my Team Facebook page telling my sad story. As I was 30 miles north on I75, I got a text from Andy Simpson telling me that there was a competition in Lakeland, very close to where I was. Sure enough, I checked out the KCBS website and there it was! I called the organizer Donovan and asked if there were any open spots. His reply, “no, I’m sorry, we’re full, just filled the last open spot”. I told him my sad
story and all Donovan said was, “come on over Jeff, we’ll make a spot for you”. An hour later, I was set up in the most beautiful spot under a mossy oak tree, plenty of grass, great power and water... I couldn’t believe what had just happened. Just getting to the Lakeland, when Pigs Fly contest is proof enough that God loves me to arrange a competition 3 miles from the one I messed up on, but the story doesn’t end there.... The cook went great and I ended up getting an 18th in Chicken, a 4th in Ribs, 4th in Pork and 5th in brisket. All combined, that earned me the Grand Champion! Do YOU believe in Miracles! I could not stop laughing and crying and thanking Jesus for the amazing turn of events. I shouldn’t be surprised by how amazing God is, how He takes care of His Children, but I am and I still do. God’s math: Rejection: had I gotten the spot for the TV show I would not have been available the weekend of the 16th. Mistake – obvious, a week ahead of the competition. Victory – A Grand Championship. God knew what was going to happen the whole time and just let it all play out. We serve an amazing God, and when things go wrong.... That is exactly when we are about to see God move in some amazing ways. Here’s what God says:
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have [its] perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 [he is] a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. [Jam 1:2-8 NKJV] And the story is still open... the victory in Lake-
Jeff Petkevicius wins grand in Lakeland, Florida. land gave me the invitation to the American Royal next October, and my name in the hat for a draw to the Jack Daniels.... I can’t wait to see how God plays this all out.
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