04/13/2026
Thank you God for all of our blessings and safe travels 🙏 🙌
After a long, busy week at work, we made a last-minute call to head to Gilmer and cook with our outlaw BBQ family at Risk It for the Brisket—and man, we’re glad we did. Gilmer is always a good time, and being just an hour and a half from home made it even better since some of our family got to come hang out. Bonus points for getting to enjoy some good music from Roger Creager 🎶
Overall, we had a pretty smooth cook… minus one pit deciding to act brand new and not run right on us for the first time ever 🤬🤷🏼♀️🤪
My Weber ran smooth and hot all day with the best burning B&B Charcoal —it paid off with an 8th place chicken call 🙌
Our rib pit, on the other hand… had a mind of its own, but we still pulled off 12th place ribs— a little on the tight side, but hey, we’ll take that “kiss your sister” money 💵
And brisket… yeah, we’re just gonna leave that one alone 🤦🏼♀️ I’ve seen more marbling in a sirloin steak than that “prime” brisket, but I’ll give it this—it had great flavor 🤷🏼♀️
Huge congratulations to AJ George on Grand Champion and locking in #6 for the Jack—that last one is the toughest! 😵
Congrats to Bud Brown on Reserve Grand Champion, and to everyone else who got to make that walk 💪
Big shout out to Emma for winning 2nd place in kids Q 💪👏
Thank you KeKe and LaDoyce for being awesome judges—we appreciate y’all!
Big thanks to Alanna Standley with The Barbque Store for always taking care of us with the best customer service and making sure we’re stocked up and ready to roll.
And of course, thank you to all of our sponsors for supplying us with award-winning products—we couldn’t do it without y’all:
B&B Charcoal
LC BBQ
Texas Oil Dust LLC
Chicken Fried BBQ
Prairie Fresh
Blues Hog
Gateway Drum Smokers
Money Maker🔥