What a fruity looking bunch
Just because his name is Peaches (far right) doesn't give you the right to call us fruity, Ash Hole!
Nice digging, though, to find that picture. My first grilling contest (grilling was enough of a challenge out of the gate so I skipped the real BBQ challenge at Grill Kings) a year ago, moments after I discovered the Brethren.
I'm pretty darn amazed when I consider what I thought I knew then compared to what I know now, thanks entirely to you all!!! I've been trying to focus on work and family all week but my mind is actually on next week's Rock N Ribfest in New Hampshire, my first real bbq contest on my own after an eye opening try in Hudson Valley late last year.
I was ready to call it quits after that until some very good advice from our own Poobah: "Stop trying to do it all yourself." (or something like that). Point being, I was creating my own rubs and sauce from scratch when it was just as easy -- and tasted better -- to modify an existing rub and sauce. I was up all night watching a couple of leaky vertical cookers with no real clue what temperature they were at, let alone the meat inside, going strickly on a "feeling".
Fighting a crazy rainstorm that took my canopy away while my team got ready for bed (read: passed out). So some things have changed. I am relaxed and ready to see how the chips fall next weekend, at the MIM contest, and whatever I do there after. Don't try to do it all yourself and don't take it so seriously and it'll be a great ride!
