Keepin’ It Smokin’ Competition BBQ

The 3rd annual QUE For A Cure is a wrap , what a weekend, we battled heat 🥵 , the rain , flooding and a stacked field of 46 PRO teams Florida BBQ Association the fastest growing event around Roni-Kay Elser she puts her heart soul and sweat into this event great job MAV.

However we didn't battle it alone , the BBQ family is the real deal team Smokin Ash littlery helped get us outta the mud an flood. Also huge thanks to everyone who offered to help, your friendships mean the world to us.

After the moving of camp at 10:30 at night the cook itself went really well. Felt good about all 4 meats turn ins were solid. We landed as follows

Chicken 17th
Prairie Fresh Ribs 5th
fresh Pork 9th
The Butcher Shoppe A9 13th

Good enough for another top 10 , 6th overall outa 45 PRO teams.
Huge shout out to our BBQ mentor and sponsor Jim Elser Sweet Smoke Q for his RGC ! Great cook bro ! Gitchewsum Catering for huge GC !

My grandson Bentley got a chance to cook again in the 10 an under kids Q ... With a 1st place !!!! He was attempting sausage balls ended up more like sausage biscuits but we're still delicious 😋. Great job bro ,you make us proud.

We couldn't do this crazy game without our sponsors
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That Sharpening Guy thanks for the razor sharps knives !

Onto next one , few weeks Smokin' In The Pines BBQ Festival Perry FL.

South Carolina Festival of Discovery 2024 is in the books. This was our 1st year competing in this event overall it's a great contest with great set up for an event. Overall we had a solid consistent cook lil rusty from a bit of a layoff since late April was our last cook.

We had a great time lil hot 🥵 but it is July , this contest brings in a lot of the best teams from all over so we felt like we held our own. Our Heath Riles BBQ products and Sweet Smoke Q products never let us down proud to represent these brands.

Bentley the youth member of Keepin’ It Smokin’ Competition BBQ team had a fantastic cook taking in 2nd place 💯💪. Way to go buddy papa super proud of you.
The meats were hamburger and bacon , so we he made a meatloaf style meatballs stuffed with jalapeno monterey jack cheese. It was so good 😊.

For us we took
31st chicken ...😔
25th Prairie Fresh ribs
31st Prairie Fresh pork
22nd The Butcher Shoppe A9 it was so $$ ...😕

For 20th overall in a great field of 76 top level teams.

Another lil break in action for us till August for QUE For A Cure Florida's fastest growing competition 😎💪💯.

Looking for great BBQ for 4th of July let Keepin’ It Smokin’ Competition BBQ do the work , give your family the best BBQ around.

Rib sale 30$ a rack
Whole chickens 25$
Limited amount Waygu Brisket point only (not huge) 80$ feed 2 to 3 ppl.

Pick_up will be on the 4th ready by 3pm in the afternoon.

Msg here or Justin Jason Norris or Jason Norris pages

Thanks !

Keepin’ It Smokin’ Competition BBQ traveled south down to Miami for for 1st annual Pit masters Classic of Miami. The organization worked real hard to put on a event and for the most part everything went smoothly. We look forward to many more years of supporting this great event and great cause.

As for our cook it was pretty uneventful, things just flowed well , proteins seem to be in sync with us this weekend that's always a good thing. We felt we closed 4 pretty good lids. The judgement was as follows.
Chicken 🐓 8th place
Prairie Fresh Ribs 2nd place
Prairie Fresh. Pork 4th place
The Butcher Shoppe A9 brisket 3rd

Solid enough for GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP 🏆 with a super cool belt trophy, these never get old

But more than that these trophies that will get dusty an old but the friendship and the memories made at these events are the real wins.

We can't thank our sponsors enough for the support of Keepin it Smokin , these are some of the best products an ppl in BBQ !!!

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Briskets 150$ feeds 10_12 ppl
Pork butt 50 $ feeds 7_8 ppl
Ribs full rack. 30$.10 bone avg

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Another solid weekend for Keepin’ It Smokin’ Competition BBQ

2nd chicken
2nd ribs
Tied for 7th pork
10th brisket

Reserve Grand Champions 🏆💪

Thank you to our sponsors these rubs and sauces are what keep us in the game !!! Get yours today !!!

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This weekend Keepin’ It Smokin’ Competition BBQ BBQ landed in Davenport FL. For Grills Gone Wild this contest drew some great teams from all over the United States. We've been working hard on our brisket game with help from our BBQ family. Seeing some up tick in that department, sadly not so great in other categories. We grabbed a 7th place The Butcher Shoppe A9 brisket call 😎💪.

Onto the next one ! Head up , time get into BBQ grind mode , make some tweaks bring our A game next weekend.

Thank you to our BBQ partners 😎.
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That Sharpening Guy

Lakeland Pigest 24' is in the books and in the past.

We had Bentley hold down the tradition of calls for Keepin’ It Smokin’ Competition BBQ. So proud of this boy he really enjoys when he can cook. He took 3rd steak , 4th chicken , 4th overall.

As for our cook we thought we turned in our normal scoring well Q. The judges had different view point this weekend. Old timers of cooking say these days will happen, today was ours. All we can do is move on try to take what we can from it.

48th out of 61 PRO teams.

Like to thank our BBQ sponsors for all they do to Keep us Smokin.

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Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy

Onto Grills Gone wild do our best to defend our most recent GC 😎.

We kicked off the 2024 BBQ season at one of our all time favorite competitions Butts & Clucks Cook-off On The Bay in beautiful Apalachicola FL. While the view is always unbeatable and John Solomon puts on one of the best events. The weather was bitter cold 🥶. Our cook went well the Sweet Smoke Q QDS drums ran like champs in the cold conditions. Heath Riles BBQ flavors brought home some hardware.

Our results were a bit of a tale of two half's ....

Chicken 🐔 3rd place
Prairie Fresh Ribs 4th place
Prairie Fresh Pork 24th (my fault)
The Butcher Shoppe A9 26th don't wanna talk about the table .... Move on

For a 12th overall finish out of 51 teams! Was awesome too see the place so packed with fantastic teams for the Florida BBQ Association STATE CHAMPIONSHIP!

There a new 🔥 in the FBA under the new president and I can't wait to see this organization make a turn upward ⬆️. This is OUR FBA.

Up next the BIG Dawg , I Love Lakeland Pig Festival

Rolling into 2024 with the BEST sponsorships in the game ! Sweet Smoke Q products and QDS drum smokers and Heath Riles BBQ products give us a the confidence to go out an compete at the highest level.

No place we would rather start than Butts & Clucks Cook-off On The Bay in Apalachicola FL , can't wait see all the BBQ family again. This one always special to us , was our very 1st PRO competition and our 1st Reserve Grand on same day 💪 !!

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Merry Christmas to All , from our family to yours ....

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That's a wrap! Closed our last 4 lids for 2023 Plant City Pig Jam 20th year contest right here in our home town.

This competition was #9 out of 10 straight weekends. Too say we are a little tired is an understatement. However we felt we closed 4 pretty solid lids and judgment came down as follows....

Chicken 13th 😞🤔
Prairie Fresh Ribs 10th place
Prairie Fresh Pork 10th place
The Butcher ShoppeA9 3rd place

Overall 7th place out of 25 teams.

We're looking forward to looking back and reflecting on this season our busiest and best season so far ! And yes getting some much needed time off 😁. Spend time with our families, friends. Hope everyone has a great holiday season !

We couldn't do what we do without the support of our sponsors. Thank you to the BBQ family, for always being there for us and just being the best group of friends an competitors you could ask for.

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Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy

Keeping it Smokin rolled in the Ten24 pitmaster classic in Putnam County. Great 1st year contest, organization did great job taking care of us cook teams.

Our cook was bit of a challenge this week from tight under sized boxes, to weather and battling cooker issues. Hey that's cooking, not going be easy all the time. We managed close some decent lids and wound up in the top 10 yet again.

Chicken tied for 1st place 💪😎
Prairie Fresh 11th place
Pork 9th place
The Butcher Shoppe A9 brizz 12th

Overall 7th place in a good field of some great teams. Onto next weekend, reload, reflect and try get back on track.

Thank you to our sponsors
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Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy

Keepin it Smokin rolls on, found our way back to our roots. Camp Mack Guy Harvey Resorts camp ground where this crazy ride all began 4 years ago. This place will always be on our list, great setups, great organizer Kevin DeNell

We felt our cook went really well, battling some heavy winds all weekend. Weather was great other than that. Once the smoked cleared we finished the day with another 4 walk contest !!

1st place chicken
10th place Prairie Fresh ribs
1st place Prairie Fresh pork
12th place The Butcher Shoppe A9 Brisket

For a back to back weekends of Reserve Grand Champions 🏆

Congratulations to our great friends Tillmans BBQ for the GRAND champions and the belt !!

We keep it rolling next week at the Ten_24 pit master classic in Palatka, Fl.

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What week is it 😜😂. The BBQ grind continues, this weekend took us to beautiful Bell, FL Hart Springs for BBQ from the Hart! Another great weekend of weather we have been truly blessed to be able cook in some fantastic weather at great venues.

Hart Springs and Donna Kelly staff and organizers did another fantastic job taking care of us teams, for you guys that haven't cooked this one, we highly recommend it.

The cook, this one was a challenge the meats just seemed to have there own plan this weekend and we had to make some adjustments. When the smoked cleared and all lids were closed, Here's how we faired.

Chicken nice rebound for 3rd
Prairie Fresh Ribs ehhh 9th
Prairie Fresh Pork soild 4th
The Butcher Shoppe A9 "Borrowed Angel” 😇 brisket from our boys Team Smoke N’ Ash !!! 1st PLACE !!!💪💪💪💪

This was our very 1st, 1st place brisket finally got that monkey off our back !!

Reserve Grand Champions 🏆, shout out to Gitchewsum Catering on a roll with yet another great cook and Grand Champion honors. Congratulations again guys!

These products and sponsors help us so much, keepin us smokin! If you want use what the pros use, check out these fine products!

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Thank you That Sharpening Guy

Up next, yeap at it again, Camp Mack, where all this started for us, the place of our very 1st competition in 2019.

The BBQ road rolls on! This weekend the road took us to, Panama Brawl in the Fall, Panama City FL. For those that missed this one, missed a good one ! These folks did an outstanding job taking care of everyone, beautiful venue, great atmosphere just a great overall competition.

Was great to see alot of "new blood" at this comp, some really great folks, and some great cooks as well 👍! It was great see those new teams get some calls!! We really need this in our sport, and the top teams shared drinks, laughs, and tips 😜 overall great time!

Our cook went really well for most part, closed 4 really solid lids and the results showed up!

Chicken 9th
Prairie Fresh Ribs 4th
Prairie Fresh Pork 1st place !!
The Butcher Shoppe A9 3rd place
People Choice CHAMPS 😎 for cool 1000$
Overall 3rd place

The road rolls on in next week Hartsprings FL for another great venue an contest be sure to sign up, should be still room for teams! Let's support these that give us the opportunity to do what we love to do!!! Thank you to our sponsors that help us Keep Smokin !!

Sweet Smoke Q
Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy

Warning long post. Our very 1st American Royal World Series Of BBQ Invitational and Open is in the books. What can we say but what an amazing experience, having a large group of our FBA BBQ family there at Royal just made the experience that much more fun.

We closed 4 really solid lids on Saturday for the invitational and it showed. We got a call!! 16th place chicken, no words can express the gratitude we have for our BBQ family they are just the best everyone was super excited to hear the call!

All the work, all the BBQ grinding, the effort, the mentorship from serval great pitmasters all leads up to this day, this walk, in this field of GREAT BBQ teams from all over the nation ... what an unreal feeling.

Our invitational cook was as follows
Chicken 16th place 🏅177.714
Prairie Fresh Ribs 121st 170.262
Prairie Fresh Pork 85th 172.560
The Butcher Shoppebrisket 43rd 174.262

Overall 25th !!!! Out of 211 of best teams from all over the nation.

Sunday we cooked in the OPEN division against 487 teams !! We closed 4 soild lids again felt this cook and meats were just a tad better than day 1. However the judgement fell slightly different.

Chicken 39th 176.594
Prairie Fresh Ribs 404th 158.834 🧐😡
Prairie Fresh pork 109th 173.120
The Butcher Shoppe A9 Brisket 113th 171.965

170th overall out of 487 teams !

Florida (FBA Teams) really made some noise this weekend. We are proud to be apart of the FBA !! We have serval of the nations best pitmasters right here!! So happy for our friend/mentor and sponsor Jim Elser for a perfect score RIB call !!!! A moment we will never forget.

As always there is no way to express enough gratitude to our sponsors that keep us in the hunt week in an week out. These products will change your comp game or elevate your backyard cooking to another level!

Sweet Smoke Q drums and products
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That Sharpening Guy keeps our knives sharp

Until next year see y'all at the ROYAL !!!

Keepin’ It Smokin’ Competition BBQ only rolls with best pork on the planet 🌏. Prairie Fresh #1 pork for us ! Good smoking luck to all competing here and abroad this weekend !

We have arrived!! In many ways. So far our 1st trip to the American Royal Association BBQ competition has been a blast ! We eaten , we have drank , we've had moments of "5 minutes an a phone call ". What a trip getting here riding with our BBQ family! Tillmans BBQ Sweet Smoke Q we've had some fun on the way !

Now we are just soaking all this in we are here ! Just amazing to be surrounded by so many BBQ legends. Hope for all traveling today smooth roads and safe passage. We will see everyone soon !

Thanks to the best sponsors in the BBQ game for helping us reach this tremendous milestone !

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Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy

First we want to thank Dawn Viola Perez Smokin in the Pines her and team performed a small miracle getting the venue clean and ready for a BBQ contest. The event was great as always this one premiere go to events for us every year.

We had pretty good cook weather was great ! Was nice feel lil coolness in the air. 33 teams showed up an showed out to support this great event. Our results were.

🐔 chicken 10th
🐖 Prairie Fresh ribs 4th
🐷 fresh pork 4th
🐄 The Butcher Shoppe A9 10th

For over all 4th place finish ! Another solid top 5.

So now we head north to the GRANDDADDY of them all The American Royal Invitational World Championships. Kanas city Kansas. This our 1st invite an out 1st trip out to this prestigious event , can't wait see all our BBQ family. Everyone safe travels see y'all soon !

Thank you to our fantastic sponsors that Keep us Smokin ! An walking

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That Sharpening Guy keeping us sharp

What a way to kick off the fall run of 9 competitions in 10 weeks 🤪. We start right close by at Riverview FL, Que for a Cure ! Roni-Kay Elser puts her heart and soul in her organization and this contest and it shows! This contest draws best teams, we battled 34 pro teams in this Florida BBQ Association contest.

With a long almost 5 month summer break we felt we closed 3 solid lids, knew ribs were just kinda not there today. However awards here at Que for a Cure was awesome 😎. Watching our BBQ family getting walk after walk, was definitely a fun experience. We managed to get up a few times. Once for 3rd place Peoples Choice 😁 and tied for 4th Brisket The Butcher Shoppe A9💪. Cooked solid enough for an 8th place overall finish.

Also Bentley taking in 2nd place with Kids Que 😎. He really enjoys when he gets the chance to cook, and we definitely enjoy it, probably a little more 😊. So proud of him he cooked jalapeno cheddar cheese smoked sausage sliders!

Like to thank our sponsors for being behind us and helping us achieve our BBQ goals.

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Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy thank you bro ! Congratulations on your well deserved award 👏.

No time to rest, we hit the road for our longest road trip of our BBQ career into Perry FL , then from there The American Royal in Kansas City !!!

Huge shout out to The Butcher Shoppe Kevin Green, for hooking us up 💪. The best shipping and best customer service around. If you are looking for high quality meats give Kevin and the team at the Butcher Shoppe a call. Everything from backyard grilling to the BEST competition briskets around "The A9".

These 5 will start out a wild fall ride of 9 competitions in 10 weeks to close out 2023! Let's goooooo!

Vortex wings , fresh deer back strap l. Rolling at the Keepin it Smokin headquarters.

Keepin’ It Smokin’ Competition BBQ has a HUGE road trip coming up in September. We are headed out to the World Championship of BBQ.

If you like to support us along our trip and experience some of our CHAMPIONSHIP level BBQ. August 19th is your chance ! We will be smokin up Ribs , Pork Butt and BRISKET !

All orders need be in by Thursday August 17th. If you have my number feel free text or call. Can also PM us here on Facebook or leave an order in the comments.

Thank you for your support , all orders will be available Saturday August 18th after 5pm , delivery also available if requested.

Ribs ....30$ a rack
Pork Butts ....40 $ (whole)
Briskets.... 150$ full packer brisket

Just one more post... Food Network BBQ USA episode 4! What an amazing experience, too think just 3 short years ago my brother an I started in the backyard division of Florida BBQ Association . Took team of year our very 1st year and from there we knew it was time to go Pro. We ended up taking our great friends and mentors Pig chicka Cow cow Lee Thompson and Sweet Smoke Q BBQ class and off we went! If your deciding your next class Jim Elser’s class is one to think about!
He puts on 1 hell of a class ! Especially when Jason gets the mic for the after party 😎🎤😂

Now on our 3rd season 2nd in Pro, we sit in 2nd place in the points race for Pro team of the year, it’s been an Incredible ride! This experience to be on BBQ USA was one that will last a lifetime, much like the friendship's forged over cooking meat in parking lots!

I'd like thank our sponsors for helping us in our BBQ lifestyle. These products and people are some of the best! We know it gives us an advantage week in and week out using such great products that we are fortunate enough to have partnerships with.

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That Sharpening Guy Razor sharp Knives

We look forward to getting back out there! See everyone in September on the BBQ trail! Y'all keep it smokin !

Late post. Food Network BBQ USA season 2 episode 4 what an experience. Never in our wildest dreams could myself and Justin imagined we be in a position to do something like this. Competition BBQ has brought us so much in our lives now to say, “hey we were on national tv at one point”, is pretty damn cool!

Being able to take part in this are memories that will last forever. Huge thanks to Simple Alien Inc for being such great film crew, shooting some great behind the scenes footage that really pulls back the curtain on comp bbq.

Fantastic job done by all teams thought show was really well done! Few emotional tears made for a great show, so glad that our bbq fam Sweet Smoke Q kicked cancers ass and kicked our ass in mystery box! Smokin' Ain't EZ BBQ Team and Catering battling through a huge loss in their family and still make the cook off, great job!

Beardedmonkeys Twistedq getting hitched while cooking, very sneaky lol. SS Trio Jason Singletary and crew, always great cooking with you guys , definitely a force to reckon with anytime y'all team up!

Congratulations again to all our Bbq teams.
Florida BBQ Association has 2 great episodes , our FL teams really showed out and done great job showcasing FL BBQ! Congratulations again to Gitchewsum Catering Allen Pomerleau /Tom for a hell of a showing for GC! That was fun to watch

Almost time ! Monday night 10 pm Food Network BBQ USA ! Check it out ! Might see some folks you know ! 😏😎