Georgia Barbecue Association

May 29 2013

GBA Elections

To All Georgia Barbecue Association Members

Subject: The election of officers for the 2013-2015 cook season. This IS a two year term.

Nominations will begin June 10, 2013. Any member in good standing can be nominated for the office of President, Vice-President or Secretary. You must first ask the person you nominate if they are willing to accept your nomination.
After they agree then you will contact Pam Nelms at gabbqassoc@gmail.com and make your nomination. Nominations will close at midnight on June 31, 2013.

Voting will begin on July 8, 2013. You will go to the Georgia Barbecue Association web site at www.bbqga.com On the front page click on the link: “GBA Elections” and follow the instructions. Your ballot will REQUIRE that you enter your GBA member #, so have it handy. Use of the membership # is to insure only one vote per member is cast. To maintain confidentiality of the vote, only two people will have access to the ballots. Voting will end on August 5th 2013.

The new officers will be notified around August 12th so they can begin preparations to take office at The Georgia Barbecue Association State Championship, The ComSouth Hambone Jam, in Ft Valley Georgia on September, 6th & 7th, 2013.

There are several things to remember:
If you are a member of a cook team, you can not cook with that team for the duration of your office. If you are a judge, you can not judge for the duration of your office.

The office of President and Vice-President will require fielding many inquires about cooking competitions. It requires you to visit locations for potential new contests and speak to event organizers and/or sponsors.

The President or Vice President will determine if a new location has a site suitable to host a GBA contest. ie: do they have adequate water, electricity etc.

Other duties include organizing schedules so that you don’t schedule too many events in a month or in conflict to other association’s events that may hurt your schedule.

The President will assign Lead Reps and supporting staff in a manner that is in the best interest of the GBA and the event.

It is important that your elected officers are in attendance at all sanctioned GBA events whenever possible.

This is not all of the demands of these offices, but these are some of the more important ones and should be carefully considered when making or accepting a nomination.

If any one has any questions regarding the election process or and duties of the officers, please do not hesitate to give me a call @ 478-731-0145.

Harry Faircloth, President
The Georgia Barbecue Association, where
It’s All About The Taste!

May 26 2013

Smokin’ 42 BBQ Makes It Two In A Row at Brenau!

Submitted by Greg Hoyt

The hottest team in the GBA is Smokin’ 42 BBQ. Chad Brooks and Chris O’Neal traveled north of Atlanta for the second time in 2 weeks and drove home with the Grand Championship of the Brenau Barbecue Championship! They say the first one is the hardest but once Smokin’ 42 got it under their belt thy went right back to the trough and gobbled up their second Grand Championship at the next GBA competition at Brenau.

Grand Champion – Smokin’ 42 BBQ

The GBA was invited to co-sanction the Brenau Barbecue Championship with Memphis Barbecue Network. The GBA showed out in Brenau – 30 GBA Teams cooked all three categories. Two Memphis teams snuck over to cook a category or two on the GBA side. Six GBA stalwarts made the trip to Breanau. Dixie Que, Jethro’s Cooking Crew, Smoke Shack BBQ, AnarQue , Smokin’ 42 BBQ and Smokin’ AJ’s BBQ all made the trek to Gainesville. They were joined by twenty four other teams that were that have cooked from zero to three GBA sanctioned events in the past.

Two teams, Smokey Butts and Sauced Hog Smoke Shack set the tone early in the day with another GBA first. Both teams scored a perfect 600 in Loin. We’ve never had 600’s in the same category on the same day before. Anarque joined them on the finals table. Smokey Butts won the Loin category followed by Anarque and Sauced Hog Smoke Shack finishing third. Dixie Q missed their best shot at a GBA final being four tenths of a point behind and finishing fourth in GBA Loin.

First Place Loin – Smokey Butts

Pulled pork was the opportunity for new teams to show what they could do. Two of the top four money spots belonged to teams that had not cooked in a GBA Sanctioned event before. Sauced Hog Smoke Shack edged out Ninja Pigs for first place in Pulled Pork. Smoke Shack BBQ came in third in pulled pork and Rick’s Smok’n Pig finished fourth. In the preliminaries Smoke Shack and Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack had tied in the preliminaries with nearly perfect scores of 599.4. In the preliminary round. In the finals Ninja Pig passed Smoke Shack for second place.

Reserve Grand Champions – Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack

Ribs were the final category. Swamp Cat Barbecue came through the first round with the top score of 595.8. Smokin’42 and Smokin ‘ AJ’s salvaged their days late as they broke through to the final round in ribs. In the Finals Smokin’ 42 posted the highest finals score with their 599.7 in ribs. Smokin’42 won the category and the contest with their finals rack of ribs.

Sauced Hog Smoke Shack won reserve by finishing ninth in Ribs, second in Pulled pork and first in Loin.

The proceeds form the day went to support scholarships at Brenau.

Full results below. Scores in red are final round scores. All others are preliminary round scores.

		Pork Loin
1	597.9	Smokey Butts
2	595.4	AnarQue
3	584.5	Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack
4	595.1	Dixie Que
5	589.9	Jurassic Pork
6	587.3	Big Daddy’s Bar-B-Que
7	586.6	Grillin’ Magic BBQ Team
8	585.5	Smokin’ AJ’s BBQ
9	583.3	Smokin’ 42 BBQ
10	582	Smoke Shack BBQ
11	579	Swamp Cat BBQ
12	577.7	2 Little Piggs
13	577.4	Skyline Contracting
14	575.9	Jethro’s Cooking Crew
15	575.4	Beauford’s Smokehouse
16	574.4	Tuff Dawg Grillers
17	573.1	Smokin’ Butts BBQ
18	572.9	Team Recess and Yellowfin
19	572.6	Rick’s Smokin’ Pig BBQ
20	571.1	Hemhocks
21	568.8	Natural Born Smokers
22	568.8	Ninja Pig BBQ
23	568.1	Blaker’s BBQ
24	567.8	Smoked Hawg Walking
25	567.3	Butts & Brews
26	565.5	J. Reid’s BBQ & Stew
27	565.1	Sweet Butts BBQ
28	563.8	Legally Smokin Docs

		RIBS			PULLED PORK
1	599.7	SMOKIN 42 BBQ	1	599.1	SAUCED HOGS SMOKE SHACK
2	592.2	SMOKIN AJ”S	2	598.5	NINJA PIGGS
3	587.6	SWAMP CAT BBQ	3	594.9	SMOKE SHACK BBQ
4	591.8	Beauford’s Smokehouse	4	590.5	Rick’s Smokin’ Pig BBQ
5	591.5	Smoke Shack BBQ	5	590.2	2 Little Piggs
6	591.1	Tuff Dawg Grillers	6	590.2	AnarQue
7	590.8	AnarQue	7	589.2	Almighty Smoke Masters
8	587.6	Rick’s Smokin’ Pig BBQ	8	588.6	Tuff Dawg Grillers
9	585.9	Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack	9	587.3	Skyline Contracting
10	585.3	Biteback BBQ	10	586.9	Smokin’ 42 BBQ
11	584.8	Ninja Pig BBQ	11	585.7	Natural Born Smokers
12	583.2	Big Daddy’s Bar-B-Que	12	584.2	Smokey Butts
13	582.6	Jurassic Pork	13	582.9	Smokin’ AJ’s BBQ
14	582.3	Grillin’ Magic BBQ Team	14	581.7	Big Daddy’s Bar-B-Que
15	582.2	Almighty Smoke Masters	15	580.6	Grillin’ Magic BBQ Team
16	579	Dixie Que	16	579	Beauford’s Smokehouse
17	575.7	Jethro’s Cooking Crew	17	578.6	Dixie Que
18	574.8	Legally Smokin Docs	18	577	Properly Smoked
19	574.4	Smokin’ Butts BBQ	19	576.8	Legally Smokin Docs
20	573.5	Natural Born Smokers	20	576.7	J. Reid’s BBQ & Stew
21	573.1	Sweet Butts BBQ	21	575.1	Smokin’ Butts BBQ
22	571.1	Smoked Hawg Walking	22	574.4	Sweet Butts BBQ
23	568.2	2 Little Piggs	23	574.2	Swamp Cat BBQ
24	566.3	Smokey Butts	24	573.4	Jethro’s Cooking Crew
25	562.6	Hemhocks	25	573.2	Jurassic Pork
26	562	Butts & Brews	26	566.2	Hemhocks
27	560.2	Properly Smoked	27	565.6	Blaker’s BBQ
28	553.1	Team Recess and Yellowfin	28	565.3	Smoked Hawg Walking
29	552.2	John Jarrard’s Rhythm & Drool BBQ	29	562.6	John Jarrard’s Rhythm & Drool BBQ
30	552	Skyline Contracting	30	559.9	Butts & Brews
31	551.7	Blaker’s BBQ	31	554	Team Recess and Yellowfin
32	548.3	J. Reid’s BBQ & Stew

	Reserve Scores
		Ribs	Pulled	Loin	Total
1	Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack	585.9	599.4	600	1785.3
2	AnarQue	590.8	590.2	596.1	1777.1
3	Smoke Shack BBQ	591.5	599.4	582	1772.9
4	Smokin’ 42 BBQ	595.4	586.9	583.3	1765.6
5	Smokin’ AJ’s BBQ	595.1	582.9	585.5	1763.5
6	Tuff Dawg Grillers	591.1	588.6	574.4	1754.1
7	Dixie Que	579	578.6	595.1	1752.7
8	Big Daddy’s Bar-B-Que	583.2	581.7	587.3	1752.2
9	Rick’s Smokin’ Pig BBQ	587.6	590.5	572.6	1750.7
10	Smokey Butts	566.3	584.2	600	1750.5
11	Grillin’ Magic BBQ Team	582.3	580.6	586.6	1749.5
12	Swamp Cat BBQ	595.8	574.2	579	1749
13	Beauford’s Smokehouse	591.8	579	575.4	1746.2
14	Jurassic Pork	582.6	573.2	589.9	1745.7
15	Ninja Pig BBQ	584.8	591.8	568.8	1745.4
16	2 Little Piggs	568.2	590.2	577.7	1736.1
17	Natural Born Smokers	573.5	585.7	568.8	1728
18	Jethro’s Cooking Crew	575.7	573.4	575.9	1725
19	Smokin’ Butts BBQ	574.4	575.1	573.1	1722.6
20	Skyline Contracting	552	587.3	577.4	1716.7
21	Legally Smokin Docs	574.8	576.8	563.8	1715.4
22	Sweet Butts BBQ	573.1	574.4	565.1	1712.6
23	Smoked Hawg Walking	571.1	565.3	567.8	1704.2
24	Hemhocks	562.6	566.2	571.1	1699.9
25	J. Reid’s BBQ & Stew	548.3	576.7	565.5	1690.5
26	Butts & Brews	562	559.9	567.3	1689.2
27	Blaker’s BBQ	551.7	565.6	568.1	1685.4
28	Team Recess and Yellowfin	553.1	554	572.9	1680
29	Almighty Smoke Masters	582.2	589.2	0	1171.4
30	Properly Smoked	560.2	577	0	1137.2
31	John Jarrard’s Rhythm & Drool BBQ	552.2	562.6	0	1114.8
32	Biteback BBQ	585.3	0	0	585.3

May 12 2013

Smokin’ 42 BBQ Earns First Grand Championship at Smoke on the Lake

Smokin’ 42 BBQ Earns First Grand Championship at Smoke on the Lake

It’s a long haul up I-75 from Tifton to Acworth. The trip back down the interstate after the Smoke on the Lake contest didn’t seem quite as long for Smokin’ 42 BBQ with their first Grand Championship trophy riding shotgun. However, the win didn’t come easy the Men in Black. For the first time in GBA history there was a three way tie for Grand Champion. Bubba Grills won the Pork Loin category; Rub Shakers Que won Pullled Pork and Smokin’ 42 BBQ was tops in Ribs all with a score in the final round of 599.1. The contest reps had to go thru eight levels of the tiebreaker system before Smokin’ 42 BBQ edged out the other two teams.

Grand Champion – Smokin’ 42 BBQ

Bubba Grills continued his strong run through the 2012-2013 contest season by making finals in both Loin and Ribs. These scores helped the team accumulate the top total score in the preliminary rounds and win Reserve Grand Champion.

Reserve Grand Champion – Bubba Grills

Rub Shakers Que, cooking in their first GBA contest, joined the GBA 600 club with a perfect 600 score in the Pulled Pork preliminary round. They followed up with the top score on the Pulled Pork finals table to take first place in the category. Smokin’ 42 BBQ took second place. Two more first time GBA competitors, Smoke Ring Aficionados and Drums A’ Smokin’, finished third and fourth respecitively. Jason Adams of Anarque came in fifth.

Lonnie Smith, pitmaster of Bubba Grills, topped the field in Loin with Anarque in second and Jethro’s Cooking Crew in third. Smoke Ring Aficionados edged out Butt Rubbin’ BBQ for fourth place by 0.2 of a point.

Smokin’ 42 BBQ turned in the best Ribs of the day. Bubba Grills was runner-up and Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack took third place. But Rubbin’ BBQ and Rub Shakers Que rounded out the top five.

The GBA also held it’s first ever Cooking for Fun division at Smoke on the Lake. The Cooking for Fun division is for teams who love to cook and want to get started in the GBA style of competitive BBQ. Cooking for Fun contests have lower entry fees than a regular GBA contest and do not have a finals round. The Fat Guys had the highest scoring box of the day with a 595.1 in Pulled Pork to take the Grand Championship.

Cooking for Fun Grand Champion – The Fat Guys

The Fat Guys also has the highest cumulative score over the three categories, but since they won Grand Champion, the Reserve Grand Championship passed down the the second highest cumulative score by Direct Lender BBQ.

Cooking for Fun Reserve Grand Champion – Direct Lender BBQ

The Fat Guys won the Chicken category with Squealz on Wheelz in second and Red Top BBQ in third. Holy Smokers NS took first in Ribs followed by Hickory Flat BBQ and Direct Lenders BBQ. It was The Fat Guys again getting the first place call. This time for Pulled Pork. Sweet Bottom BBQ was the runner-up and Direct Lender BBQ again took third place.

Cooking for Fun First Place Ribs – Holy Smokers NS

The GBA would like to thank the North Cobb Rotary Club and the City of Acworth for hosting a great contest on beautiful Lake Acworth.

Smoke on the Lake GBA Division
Scores in RED are final round scores
		Pulled Pork			Pork Loin
1	599.1	Rub Shackers Que	1	599.1	Bubba Grills
2	591.8	Smokin ’42 BBQ	2	593.9	Anar-que
3	585.6	Smoke Ring Afficianadoes	3	591.5	Jethro’s Cooking Crew
4	588.8	Drums A’ Smokin	4	587.2	Smoke Ring Afficianadoes
5	588.4	Anar-que	5	587	Butt Rubbin BBQ
6	587	Sauced Hog Smoke Shack	6	586.3	Sauced Hog Smoke Shack
7	584.2	Old Henry’s BBQ	7	582.1	Daddy’s Bar-B-Q
8	583.3	Bubba Grills	8	581.1	Old Henry’s BBQ
9	580.2	Butt Rubbin BBQ	9	577.9	Smokin ’42 BBQ
10	575	Daddy’s Bar-B-Q	10	576.6	Rub Shackers Que
11	572.6	Plum Superior	11	570.6	Plum Superior
12	570.7	Jethro’s Cooking Crew	12	563.3	Drums A’ Smokin

		RIBS
1	599.1	Smokin ’42 BBQ
2	598.5	Bubba Grills
3	586.9	Sauced Hog Smoke Shack
4	587.3	Butt Rubbin BBQ
5	586.7	Rub Shackers Que
6	583.4	Anar-que
7	582	Plum Superior
8	573.6	Drums A’ Smokin
9	570.3	Daddy’s Bar-B-Q
10	569.9	Smoke Ring Afficianadoes
11	569.9	Jethro’s Cooking Crew
12	569.6	Old Henry’s BBQ

	Reserve Scores	GBA Division
	Preliminary round scores only	Ribs	Pulled	Loin	Total
1	Bubba Grills	591.8	583.3	590.3	1765.4
2	Sauced Hog Smoke Shack	591.2	587	586.3	1764.5
3	Anar-que	583.4	588.4	592.1	1763.9
4	Smokin ’42 BBQ	590	595.7	577.9	1763.6
5	Rub Shackers Que	586.7	600	576.6	1763.3
6	Butt Rubbin BBQ	587.3	580.2	587	1754.5
7	Smoke Ring Afficianadoes	569.9	589.1	587.2	1746.2
8	Jethro’s Cooking Crew	569.9	570.7	595.5	1736.1
9	Old Henry’s BBQ	569.6	584.2	581.1	1734.9
10	Daddy’s Bar-B-Q	570.3	575	582.1	1727.4
11	Drums A’ Smokin	573.6	588.8	563.3	1725.7
12	Plum Superior	582	572.6	570.6	1725.2

Smoke on the Lake Cooking for Fun Division

		Pulled Pork			Chicken
1	595.1	The Fat Guys	1	594.8	The Fat Guys
2	590.8	Sweet Bottom BBQ	2	585.9	Squealz on Wheels
3	587.6	Direct Lender BBQ	3	585.2	Red Top BBQ
4	587.2	Hickory Flat BBQ Co	4	583.2	Hey Jack, BBQ
5	583.6	Red Top BBQ	5	583	Nice Rack BBQ
6	580.6	Squealz on Wheels	6	582.9	Direct Lender BBQ
7	579.3	Nice Rack BBQ	7	579.6	Grills Gone Wild
8	577.9	Four Fathers BBQ Crew	8	579	Sweet Bottom BBQ
9	571.8	How ‘Bout Them Hawgs	9	576.5	Smoking Snowballs
10	569.3	Holy Smokers NS	10	576.1	Hickory Flat BBQ Co
11	567.3	Hey Jack, BBQ	11	568.8	Holy Smokers NS
12	566.9	Bootlegger’s BBQ	12	565.5	Four Fathers BBQ Crew
13	563.3	Grills Gone Wild	13	564.1	Smokin’ Jackets
14	560.9	Smoking Snowballs	14	556.1	Slow Cookers at Play
15	552.5	Smokin’ Jackets	15	555.7	Bootlegger’s BBQ
16	546.1	Slow Cookers at Play	16	532.3	How ‘Bout Them Hawgs

		RIBS
1	589.8	Holy Smokers NS
2	588.5	Hickory Flat BBQ Co
3	584	Direct Lender BBQ
4	583.3	Smokin’ Jackets
5	582.4	Sweet Bottom BBQ
6	579.6	Nice Rack BBQ
7	579.1	Smoking Snowballs
8	578.1	How ‘Bout Them Hawgs
9	577.7	Red Top BBQ
10	576.3	The Fat Guys
11	575	Bootlegger’s BBQ
12	571.4	Squealz on Wheels
13	569.8	Hey Jack, BBQ
14	567.1	Slow Cookers at Play
15	563.7	Grills Gone Wild
16	555.8	Four Fathers BBQ Crew

Reserve Scores Cooking for Fun Division
			Ribs	Pulled	Chicken	Total
	1	The Fat Guys	576.3	595.1	594.8	1766.2
	2	Direct Lender BBQ	584	587.6	582.9	1754.5
	3	Sweet Bottom BBQ	582.4	590.8	579	1752.2
	4	Hickory Flat BBQ Co	588.5	587.2	576.1	1751.8
	5	Red Top BBQ	577.7	583.6	585.2	1746.5
	6	Nice Rack BBQ	579.6	579.3	583	1741.9
	7	Squealz on Wheels	571.4	580.6	585.9	1737.9
	8	Holy Smokers NS	589.8	569.3	568.8	1727.9
	9	Hey Jack, BBQ	569.8	567.3	583.2	1720.3
	10	Smoking Snowballs	579.1	560.9	576.5	1716.5
	11	Grills Gone Wild	563.7	563.3	579.6	1706.6
	12	Smokin’ Jackets	583.3	552.5	564.1	1699.9
	13	Four Fathers BBQ Crew	555.8	577.9	565.5	1699.2
	14	Bootlegger’s BBQ	575	566.9	555.7	1697.6
	15	How ‘Bout Them Hawgs	578.1	571.8	532.3	1682.2
	16	Slow Cookers at Play	567.1	546.1	556.1	1669.3

May 02 2013

Judges Needed for Acworth

Due to several cancellations, more judges are needed for Acworth on May 10. If you can judge, please sign up ASAP.

Judge Application

Apr 29 2013

Hog Jam 2013 Cancelled

Hog Jam 2013 Cancelled

With an enormous rise in patronage, and the immediate need to expand our facility. We are regretfully cancelling HogJam 2013. We have begun quite a few construction projects to expand our ability to house more guests. With this occurring, we will not have the ability to give the HogJam the attention it requires to be successful. We wish the GBA much success in the future and hope we can work together again one day.

Jerry Hammond