Are you guys having fun! Heres my addition.. From the beginning, to give some background. When the group started, i was the first of the orignal 40 members to venture out and compete. That was back in 2003, and i was hoping more of us would start to compete after. So the vision was to eventually have "Brethren Teams".. and the teams would register as BBQ-Brethern -
Insert team name here. I never dreamed we would have the membership or followingt we have now, so by the 5 or 6 teams i expected, i thought having the "bbq Brethren" preface on the team names would goruip uss together in team listings.
So I registered our first contest as BBQ Brethren - Brothers in Smoke. Well, the name was to long for the computer program used for the contest and it got truncated to BBQ Brethren - Brothe. Needless to say, that wass goofy, so the organizer just shortened it to BBQ-Brethren. That year, I continued to use BBQ-Brethren and the following year i extended it to BBQ-Brethren.com. Since then, both have been used.
First contest was Me and Parrothead. We walked away with 2 firsts, a 3rd and 5th. If it was KCBS sanctioned, we would have GC'ed, but that contest took highest individual score of all 4 catagories as winner.
With a win like that our firrst time out, we were bit by the bug. Next contest was Podunk Blues festival in CT. Team there was Josh(colt45) and Paul(MasterMarinader). We took 3rd overall there followed by another 3rd(maybe 4th) in Ashbury park at Guitarbque where Chad flew up from Florida and Rob Fernandez(BrooklynQ) joined us.
The team for a few years was Myself, James and BrooklynQ as the regulars and several brethren flew in or drove in to join us at contests. The team was, and stil is open for members to come cook with us at any contest. The core team for the past 3(maybe 4) years has been me, my son James and yakfishingfool. Vinny came on board after he retired(yeah right), and Maestro de Pollo(Danny/Speedo) is here for 2 years now.
But we have had a wide cast of characters on our roster. Muzzlebrake, jorge, hodedo, BigDog, BBQ-Bandit, BigMista, MokanMeathead, Sledneck, Smoker.... im sure theres more. The few times i wanted to compete as just father and son, I used Brothers in Smoke as the team name, but anytime BBQ Brethren.com is competing, any tenured member is welcome to join us..(Up to 6 total per contest, otherwise we are tripping all over each other.)
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pics of our very first contest.. its pretty funny when u look at those boxes, and the setup of the BYC on the Uhaul, and our camp looked like a soup kitchen exploded.
I apologize for the spam that got injected into our photo gallery comment section. That was addressed.