The Texas BBQ Thread (no Pork allowed)

[DougOLis]

This. If you're going to wait in line anyway, you might as well drink while doing it. And since Austin is pretty flexible about public drinking laws (you can drink in public almost anywhere) its not an issue. Typically arrive around 8 with chairs and coolers, drink while sitting comfortably for 3 hours, and then down some ******* kick ass BBQ to finish it off. And then I go home and go to sleep We should plan one soon, before it gets too hot.

As for the pork thing, there are definitely places in Austin that have pork on the menu, and Franklin does a great pork rib and pulled pork. But its just few and far between. Sausage is pretty much all beef - Franklin makes his with beef heart, which is pretty ******* flavorful, although I think J. Mueller had the best sausage in town (....wait for it.....)

****. Now I want BBQ

This is solid advice and what we usually do when I go with my friends. Pickup some breakfast tacos at Tacos Veracruz All Natural. Cruise over to Franklin and setup shop with our chairs and cooler. Eat said tacos. Drink coffee. Start sharing beer. Play some cards. Make it in for brisket around 11:30-12. Food coma and a giant poo.

 

[SirDickButts]

Hey rainer SirDickButts boogercrack ... Houston producing any great BBQ these days? I gotta admit, I know nothing about the scene there.

Tejas chocolate, brooks, killens

Gatlins on the come up and Killens is the spot for sure. im keeping my eyes on Brews BBQ.
i've had some ribs from them before they were open and it was on point.
and when you're feeling hood....Burns BBQ goes down.

 

[ASUBeer]

Flying in and renting a car. There may be a day or two I can drive an hour away but that's about as far as I'll go. Ya know, bars and drinking take priority.

I'd probably just stick around charlotte. Charlotte also doesn't have a good rep for bbq but they've got a ton of other great food options. Enjoy.

 

[cysiam1]

Clearly you've never been to Eastern North Carolina then

I will be in East Carolina for a wedding. Tell me where to go plz

 

[ASUBeer]

I will be in East Carolina for a wedding. Tell me where to go plz

B's
Parkers
Skylight inn

 

[ASUBeer]

I also like Bill Ellis Barbecue for when you want to eat so much you get sick.

 

[Moegreen]

Is all that sausage you see at BBQ joints in Texas beef?

Yes that's why they are called Cow Dicks

 

[Moegreen]

Hey rainer SirDickButts boogercrack ... Houston producing any great BBQ these days? I gotta admit, I know nothing about the scene there.

Doziers in fulshear, the brisket is legit, the sides are lacking though

 

[DougOLis]

I will be in East Carolina for a wedding. Tell me where to go plz

B's
Parkers
Skylight inn

These are great suggestions. B's was probably my favorite but you gotta get there early (albeit not Franklin early). Skylight Inn was my 2nd favorite meat and the crunchy cracklins mixed in elevated another level.

Wilber's, Grady's and Bum's were good too

 

[MordorMongo]

B's
Parkers
Skylight inn

Remind me to tell you about the time my stoned ass drove 2 hours to B's on a ******* Monday.


How can you be closed on Monday?


Mother fuckers.

 

[JonathanAmes]

Remind me to tell you about the time my stoned ass drove 2 hours to B's on a ******* Monday.


How can you be closed on Monday?


Mother fuckers.

Tell us about the time your stoned ass drove two hours to B's & it was closed.

 

[Moegreen]

Gatlins on the come up and Killens is the spot for sure. im keeping my eyes on Brews BBQ.
i've had some ribs from them before they were open and it was on point.
and when you're feeling hood....Burns BBQ goes down.

You need to start another thread for black BBQ, I used to live between Burns BBQ and Petrol Station, that was an unbelievable location. Burns is closed on Monday too.

 

[MordorMongo]

Tell us about the time your stoned ass drove two hours to B's & it was closed.

The whole story involved a homeless man, 2 prostitutes, having to rent a car after losing keys and ended up at a backwoods strip joint in the middle of nowhere.


Sorry for partying.

 

[thejukes]

Texas has the beef BBQ game on lock. Sidenote: they're also basically the only ones in that game. Smoking a pork shoulder is infinitely easier than a brisket. Pork is basically impossible to screw up, and brisket is the opposite.

After having lived in NM, TX, AR, SC, AZ, GA, TX again, and AR again, I will declare TX style BBQ (salt & pepper + oak smoke) is my preference. However, a good fatty brisket only just edges out a simply done (salt, pepper, brown sugar) pork butt on hickory smoke.

 

[lb304854]

Texas has the beef BBQ game on lock. Sidenote: they're also basically the only ones in that game. Smoking a pork shoulder is infinitely easier than a brisket. Pork is basically impossible to screw up, and brisket is the opposite.

After having lived in NM, TX, AR, SC, AZ, GA, TX again, and AR again, I will declare TX style BBQ (salt & pepper + oak smoke) is my preference. However, a good fatty brisket only just edges out a simply done (salt, pepper, brown sugar) pork butt on hickory smoke.

I like my brisket with super creamy mac & cheese baked on top.

 

[MordorMongo]

Texas has the beef BBQ game on lock. Sidenote: they're also basically the only ones in that game. Smoking a pork shoulder is infinitely easier than a brisket. Pork is basically impossible to screw up, and brisket is the opposite.

After having lived in NM, TX, AR, SC, AZ, GA, TX again, and AR again, I will declare TX style BBQ (salt & pepper + oak smoke) is my preference. However, a good fatty brisket only just edges out a simply done (salt, pepper, brown sugar) pork butt on hickory smoke.

You have truly lived in a lot of awful places.

 

[thejukes]

You have truly lived in a lot of awful places.

This is a fact. The price I paid for securing our nation's joke ass border. It helped me learn that your situation/location is what you make of it.

I really like living in AR. (Guilty Pleasures cross post?)

 

[ASUBeer]

Texas has the beef BBQ game on lock. Sidenote: they're also basically the only ones in that game. Smoking a pork shoulder is infinitely easier than a brisket. Pork is basically impossible to screw up, and brisket is the opposite.

After having lived in NM, TX, AR, SC, AZ, GA, TX again, and AR again, I will declare TX style BBQ (salt & pepper + oak smoke) is my preference. However, a good fatty brisket only just edges out a simply done (salt, pepper, brown sugar) pork butt on hickory smoke.

I'm not looking to start a debate but whole hog is where it's at. Shoulder, ribs, ham, cheek meat. That's how you do pork.

Also, as MordorMongo mentioned, damn you've lived in some terrible places.

 

[MordorMongo]

This is a fact. The price I paid for securing our nation's joke ass border. It helped me learn that your situation/location is what you make of it.

I really like living in AR. (Guilty Pleasures cross post?)

You are actually looking for the NOPE thread.

 

[thejukes]

I'm not looking to start a debate but whole hog is where it's at. Shoulder, ribs, ham, cheek meat. That's how you do pork.

Also, as MordorMongo mentioned, damn you've lived in some terrible places.

I've had whole hog a few times, and I agree. I would assume most people don't have the resources/time to do whole hog every time they want some bbq pork. A couple friends and I are planning to do one soon, though.

You guys don't know what you're talking about. Arkansas is a great place to live.


h8erz

 

[thejukes]

You are actually looking for the NOPE thread.

Don't make me start an Arkansas thread where I sit in there by myself eating rice and soybeans while I call them Hogs from the Clinton Presidential Library.

 

[MordorMongo]

Don't make me start an Arkansas thread where I sit in there by myself eating rice and soybeans while I call them Hogs from the Clinton Presidential Library.

Literally no one would care.



Arkansas is only surpassed by Iowa and Indiana in terms of places no ******* body cares about.

 

[FTowne1]

Literally no one would care.



Arkansas is only surprised by Iowa and Indiana in terms of places no ******* body cares about.

Missouri would like a word with you.

 

[MordorMongo]

Missouri would like a word with you.

Missouri is 4th and closing fast. Mississippi and Alabama on your tail. If they didn't have "coasts" you'd be in trouble.

 

[boogercrack]

I've had whole hog a few times, and I agree. I would assume most people don't have the resources/time to do whole hog every time they want some bbq pork. A couple friends and I are planning to do one soon, though.

You guys don't know what you're talking about. Arkansas is a great place to live.


h8erz

In college for football tailgate hogs we'd just throw a tarp down in a bath tub and put in the salted pig on Thursdays then cart the smoker out on Friday and fire it up. This would probably only fly in a house of dudes though.

Go Wolfpack!

That was all before those fools shot some guys in the tailgate grounds and you could camp out at the fairgrounds all night long for a Saturday game with no restriction. When that happened out car was in the police barricade and we had to get rides home

 

[thejukes]

Literally no one would care.



Arkansas is only surpassed by Iowa and Indiana in terms of places no ******* body cares about.

That's how we like it.

I would argue we are tied with Wyoming, Oklahoma, Utah, and all parts of NV that aren't Las Vegas.

 

[SirDickButts]

I'm keeping my eyes on Brews BBQ.
i've had some ribs from them before they were open and it was on point.

Meant to say Drew's not Brews. Freaking autocorrect.

 

[preacher1]

In college for football tailgate hogs we'd just throw a tarp down in a bath tub and put in the salted pig on Thursdays then cart the smoker out on Friday and fire it up. This would probably only fly in a house of dudes though.

Go Wolfpack!

That was all before those fools shot some guys in the tailgate grounds and you could camp out at the fairgrounds all night long for a Saturday game with no restriction. When that happened out car was in the police barricade and we had to get rides home

Never thought about that technique of brining/marinating.. I will have to use it.

 

[JohnnyNC1]

JohnnyNC

I don't know what the good BBQ places are in Charlotte, go there periodically but haven't chased that kind of food there.

Midwood Smokehouse, Queen Ciy Q, and Saucemanns are at the top of my list for Charlotte

 

[Hookemhops13]

Hey Austinites, is Franklin's swamped on Fridays? What time should I arrive if I wanted to be safe?

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