Football, BBQ, and Beer..... YUM

Been cookin for the last two days. The office building I am in had a christmas party yesterday and I brought the appetizers.

Carrol College fightin saints played today (and got their butts kicked) in the NAIA championship game. Invited over a few friends for homebrew and BBQ.

Here are yesterdays pics

Startin in the early AM hours


Cookin with two year old Cherry wood from my parents



ABT's prepped the night before



Wings marinaded and rubbed

Cooking ABT's & Wings



ABT's ready to be inhaled, er I mean eaten

Now Today's Cook for the big game:



I re-heated a butt out of the freezer left over from a few months ago and cooked a fresh one for dinner tonight:



Cooker loaded up with butts, ABT's, and Wings




The re-heated pork is gone, the ATB's are slowly dissapearing as the day goes on. Didn't get any pics of them after they were done, didn't have time

I made a sauce for the wings by mixing a gates knockoff sauce with some franks red hot, very good.

We paired all of this with an Octoberfest lager that I brewed back in September and a Nut Brown brewed last month.

The other butt is still on the cooker gettin itself ready for dinner

I love grilling in winter. I try to do it new years day.

Looks fab.

looks great. but lose the kingsford and get some royal oak or cowboy lump charcoal.

bigjohnmilford said:

looks great. but lose the kingsford and get some royal oak or cowboy lump charcoal.

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Yeah, I try to use lump whenever I can, but nobody carries it up here. Target used to carry the Kingsford lump which was pretty good and I bought every bag they ever had (once bought 18 at a time). Wal-mart here doesn't carry the royal oak anymore either.

I don't like the cowboy stuff for all of the extra stuff that I seem to get in it. I can get from Lowes.

Since I am burning logs on this cooker anyway I just use the Kingsford to get things going and to give me a base of hot coals from the get go. No need for the lump.

Ceedubya said:

Yeah, I try to use lump whenever I can, but nobody carries it up here. Target used to carry the Kingsford lump which was pretty good and I bought every bag they ever had (once bought 18 at a time). Wal-mart here doesn't carry the royal oak anymore either.

I don't like the cowboy stuff for all of the extra stuff that I seem to get in it. I can get from Lowes.

Since I am burning logs on this cooker anyway I just use the Kingsford to get things going and to give me a base of hot coals from the get go. No need for the lump.

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I hear ya. Tough to find it around here sometimes as well. Love the avatar you handsome mother*ucker.

bigjohnmilford said:

I hear ya. Tough to find it around here sometimes as well. Love the avatar you handsome mother*ucker.

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Who's Barry Badrinath?

My brother is a sound editor in the movie industry. He has worked on all of the Broken Lizard stuff.