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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

Apr 14 2013

Bubba Grills Dominates Smokin Pork N Butts … Again

Bubba Grills Dominates Smokin Pork N Butts … Again

 

The GBA returned for the second year to the Exchange Club Fairgrounds in Jackson, GA for Smokin Pork N Butts. It was a strong field of 30 teams and Lonnie Smith, pitmaster for Bubba Grills, repeated as Grand Champion.  Those in attendace were treated to a Friday night concert by rising country music star Gannon Adams.

Grand Champion Bubba Grills

Grand Champion Bubba Grills

Smokin 42 BBQ finaled in Loin and took fifth place in both Pulled Pork and Ribs to secure the Reserve Grand Championship.

Reserve Smokin 42

Reserve Champions Smokin 42 BBA

In his first GBA contest, The Fat Redneck BBQ Co., won the Pork Loin category. Smokin 42 BBQ and Sauced Hogs Smokeshack tallied the same score with Smokin 42 BBQ taking second place on the second tiebreaker. Smoke Shack and Sutters Backwoods BBQ finished fourth and fifth respectively.

first loin fat redneck bbq

First Place Loin The Rat Redneck BBQ Co.

Bubba Grills Grand Championship winning score in Pulled Pork topped the category. Smoke Shack took second place with Rub Shakers Que in third place. Rounding out the top five were Sauced Hogs Smokeshack just 0.9 ahead of Smokin 42 BBQ.

Bubba Grills also claimed first place in Ribs with Sauced Hogs Smokeshack as runner up. Jethro’s Cooking Crew claimed third place. Smoke Shack finished in fourth place and Smokin’ 42 BBQ took fifth place.

 

PORK LOIN
1 596.1 The Fat Redneck BBQ Co
2 584.6 Smokin 42
3 584.6 Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack
4 596.4 Smoke Shack
5 595.8 Sutter’s Backwoods BBQ
6 593.9 Old Henry’s BBQ
7 591.8 Smokin AJ’s
8 590.5 Bubba Grills
9 589.6 Jethro’s Cooking Crew
10 589.2 Smoke Twen The Hedges
11 586.4 Wood Shed
12 585.5 Dixie Que
13 585.3 Super Sauce
14 584.6 TC’s BBQ
15 584.4 Blazin Butts
16 583.4 K & K Grills
17 583.3 Quenut BBQ
18 582.7 Blind Pig BBQ
19 581.7 AnarQue
20 577.5 Fletcher’s Finest BarBQue
21 576.9 BCD BBQ
22 569.9 Smoke Stack BBQ Shack
23 569.6 Big D’s Firehouse Smokers
24 567.8 Dirty South
25 566.8 OnSite Ribs
26 566.5 Off Tha Hoof BBQ
27 564.9 57 SmokeHouse
28 564.5 Shade Tree Smokers
29 562.3 Rub Shakers Que
30 0 Atlanta Butt Society

 

RIBS   PULLED PORK
1 595.1 Bubba Grills 1 596.7 Bubba Grills
2 594.2 Sauced Hog Smoke Shack 2 587.9 Smoke Shack
3 585.2 Jethro’s Cooking Crew 3 586.9 Rub Shakers Que
4 593.1 Smoke Shack 4 595.4 Sauced Hog Smoke Shack
5 592.1 Smokin 42 5 594.5 Smokin 42
6 591.2 Quenut BBQ 6 594.5 Sutter’s Backwoods BBQ
7 588.5 BCD BBQ 7 594.2 Smokin AJ’s
8 588.2 Dixie Que 8 593.9 Dixie Que
9 587.8 57 SmokeHouse 9 593.9 AnarQue
10 586.6 Big D’s Firehouse Smokers 10 593.1 Fletcher’s Finest BarBQue
11 584.9 The Fat Redneck BBQ Co 11 592.2 Quenut BBQ
12 584.9 AnarQue 12 589.6 57 SmokeHouse
13 583.7 Smoke Stack BBQ Shack 13 587.1 Blind Pig BBQ
14 583.3 Wood Shed 14 586.1 The Fat Redneck BBQ Co
15 583 OnSite Ribs 15 585 K & K Grills
16 580.3 Sutter’s Backwoods BBQ 16 583.2 Smoke Twen The Hedges
17 579.6 Shade Tree Smokers 17 582.7 Blazin Butts
18 578.2 Off Tha Hoof BBQ 18 582 Old Henry’s BBQ
19 577.9 Rub Shakers Que 19 581.7 Shade Tree Smokers
20 577.1 Old Henry’s BBQ 20 578.7 Wood Shed
21 576.6 Dirty South 21 576.9 Dirty South
22 576.3 Fletcher’s Finest BarBQue 22 575.9 Jethro’s Cooking Crew
23 575.8 TC’s BBQ 23 575.1 BCD BBQ
24 573.5 Blind Pig BBQ 24 573.6 Atlanta Butt Society
25 567.2 Blazin Butts 25 572.8 Super Sauce
26 563.8 Smoke Twen The Hedges 26 571.8 TC’s BBQ
27 562.9 Super Sauce 27 570.2 Big D’s Firehouse Smokers
28 559.9 K & K Grills 28 566.6 Off Tha Hoof BBQ
29 559 Smokin AJ’s 29 566.6 OnSite Ribs
30 0 Atlanta Butt Society 30 563.9 Smoke Stack BBQ Shack

 

Reserve Scores
Ribs Pulled Loin Total
1 Smokin 42 592.1 594.5 598.8 1785.4
2 Smoke Shack 593.1 595.7 596.4 1785.2
3 Bubba Grills 595.8 598.5 590.5 1784.8
4 Sauced Hog Smoke Shack 594.9 595.4 591.8 1782.1
5 Sutter’s Backwoods BBQ 580.3 594.5 595.8 1770.6
6 The Fat Redneck BBQ Co 584.9 586.1 599.4 1770.4
7 Dixie Que 588.2 593.9 585.5 1767.6
8 Quenut BBQ 591.2 592.2 583.3 1766.7
9 AnarQue 584.9 593.9 581.7 1760.5
10 Jethro’s Cooking Crew 594.9 575.9 589.6 1760.4
11 Old Henry’s BBQ 577.1 582 593.9 1753
12 Wood Shed 583.3 578.7 586.4 1748.4
13 Fletcher’s Finest BarBQue 576.3 593.1 577.5 1746.9
14 Smokin AJ’s 559 594.2 591.8 1745
15 Blind Pig BBQ 573.5 587.1 582.7 1743.3
16 57 SmokeHouse 587.8 589.6 564.9 1742.3
17 BCD BBQ 588.5 575.1 576.9 1740.5
18 Rub Shakers Que 577.9 599.4 562.3 1739.6
19 Smoke Twen The Hedges 563.8 583.2 589.2 1736.2
20 Blazin Butts 567.2 582.7 584.4 1734.3
21 TC’s BBQ 575.8 571.8 584.6 1732.2
22 K & K Grills 559.9 585 583.4 1728.3
23 Big D’s Firehouse Smokers 586.6 570.2 569.6 1726.4
24 Shade Tree Smokers 579.6 581.7 564.5 1725.8
25 Dirty South 576.6 576.9 567.8 1721.3
26 Super Sauce 562.9 572.8 585.3 1721
27 Smoke Stack BBQ Shack 583.7 563.9 569.9 1717.5
28 OnSite Ribs 583 566.6 566.8 1716.4
29 Off Tha Hoof BBQ 578.2 566.6 566.5 1711.3
30 Atlanta Butt Society 0 573.6 0 573.6

 

 

 

Apr 10 2013

Bethel Smokers Tops Field at Grande Creek PigJam

Bethel Smokers Tops Field at Grande Creek PigJam

Nineteen teams gathered at the Georgia Sports Arena in Swainsboro, GA for the first Grande Creek PigJam. The teams & judges found the new venue to be an execllent site for a BBQ competition. The GBA family and members of the Swainsboro community were treated to a concert on Friday night by The LACS. 

Mr Joe Wright of Bethel Smokers claimed first place in both Pulled Pork & Ribs to take home the Grand Championship.  His finals Ribs score of 595.4 was 0.3 of a point better than his finals Pulled Pork score to claim the top award of the day.

Grand Champions Bethel Smokers

Grand Champions Bethel Smokers

 

Smokin’ AJ’s Pitmaster Buster Davis had a strong showing in all three categories to win the Reserve Grand Championship. Buster’s top 3 finals calls in Loin & Pulled Pork along with a 9th place finish in Ribs was the highest overall score in the preliminary round.

Reserve Grand Champion Smokin' AJs

Reserve Grand Champion Smokin’ AJs

Cookin’withStump.com took first place in the Pork Loin category just 0.6 of a point ahead of Butt Rubbin BBQ. Smokin AJs claimed third place with Budmeisters taking fourth.  Sauce Hogs Smokeshack edged out Dirt Road Grillin for fifth place by 0.3 of a point.

First Place Loin - Cookin with Stump.com

First Place Loin – Cookin with Stump.com

The finish in Pulled Pork was even closer than the Loin category as Bethel Smokers winning score was just 0.3 of a point better than Bubba Grills. Smokin AJs once again took third place. Butt Rubbin BBQ finished fourth with Cookin’ with Stump.com in fifth place.

Bethel Smokers topped the field in the Ribs category with Shadetree Smokers as runner up. Smokin Butts took home the third place award. Just a single point separated fourth and fifth place with Rump Burners just ahead of Butt Rubbin BBQ.

 

PORK LOIN
1 590.8 Cookin with Stumps
2 590.2 Butt Rubbin’ BBQ
3 586.5 Smokin AJ’s
4 588.8 Bubmeisters
5 586.9 Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack
6 586.9 Dirt Road Grillin
7 583.9 Anarque
8 583.5 Bubba Grills
9 580.6 Shadetree Smokers
10 580 Bethel Smokers
11 577.7 Charlies Titan Tastings
12 577.6 Rump Burners
13 572.6 Smoken Rascals
14 565.4 Fire Fighters Kick Ash
15 564.8 Smoke Shack
16 564.5 Old Henry’s
17 564.4 Smokin Butts
18 558.6 Sandy Ridge Smoker
19 557.6 TC BBQ

 

RIBS   PULLED PORK
1 595.4 Bethel Smokers 1 595.1 Bethel Smokers
2 583.5 Shadetree Smokers 2 594.8 Bubba Grills
3 575.6 Smokin Butts 3 582.6 Smokin AJ’s
4 590 Rump Burners 4 590.2 Butt Rubbin’ BBQ
5 589 Butt Rubbin’ BBQ 5 587.5 Cookin with Stumps
6 588.8 Old Henry’s 6 584.5 Bubmeisters
7 587.5 Bubba Grills 7 583.6 Shadetree Smokers
8 584.5 Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack 8 582 Smoke Shack
9 584.2 Smokin AJ’s 9 579.1 Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack
10 580.2 Anarque 10 577.1 Smoken Rascals
11 576.9 Bubmeisters 11 576.2 Anarque
12 576.3 Charlies Titan Tastings 12 574.1 TC BBQ
13 572.7 Sandy Ridge Smoker 13 569.8 Fire Fighters Kick Ash
14 572.6 Smoke Shack 14 568.8 Old Henry’s
15 568.6 TC BBQ 15 564.8 Rump Burners
16 564.8 Cookin with Stumps 16 564 Smokin Butts
17 563.9 Smoken Rascals 17 561.7 Charlies Titan Tastings
18 562.1 Fire Fighters Kick Ash 18 550.8 Sandy Ridge Smoker
19 0 Dirt Road Grillin 19 0 Dirt Road Grillin

 

Reserve Scores
Ribs Pulled Loin Total
1 Smokin AJ’s 584.2 596.7 594.5 1775.4
2 Bubba Grills 587.5 599.4 583.5 1770.4
3 Butt Rubbin’ BBQ 589 590.2 589.9 1769.1
4 Bethel Smokers 590.3 593.4 580 1763.7
5 Shadetree Smokers 591.1 583.6 580.6 1755.3
6 Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack 584.5 579.1 586.9 1750.5
7 Bubmeisters 576.9 584.5 588.8 1750.2
8 Cookin with Stumps 564.8 587.5 590.5 1742.8
9 Anarque 580.2 576.2 583.9 1740.3
10 Rump Burners 590 564.8 577.6 1732.4
11 Old Henry’s 588.8 568.8 564.5 1722.1
12 Smokin Butts 591.1 564 564.4 1719.5
13 Smoke Shack 572.6 582 564.8 1719.4
14 Charlies Titan Tastings 576.3 561.7 577.7 1715.7
15 Smoken Rascals 563.9 577.1 572.6 1713.6
16 TC BBQ 568.6 574.1 557.6 1700.3
17 Fire Fighters Kick Ash 562.1 569.8 565.4 1697.3
18 Sandy Ridge Smoker 572.7 550.8 558.6 1682.1
19 Dirt Road Grillin 0 0 586.9 586.9