Red, White & BBQ Contest - Westmont, Illinois

team mates & i will be cooking in the bbq contest in westmont this coming weekend.
team HAWGS & HOTTIES
chicken , ribs, pork ,brisket,chili,& dessert are the turn inns.
there is bands & rides for the youg ones.
52 teams are in this year. it will be fun

cooking fri. night & sat most of the day .sun noon to 2pm is turn time

ogden ave. west to blackhawk dr. north to ty warner park
KCBS contest

http://www.westmontbbq.com/

see you there Phil!

Head's Red BBQ wrote:see you there Phil!

sounds good bill, matt is cooking with me & buzz from 2 fat bikers is coming down.(wisc.)
i am sure we will have a sweet table on sun. morn from PTICEK'S bakery

philw wrote:

Head's Red BBQ wrote:see you there Phil!

sounds good bill, matt is cooking with me & buzz from 2 fat bikers is coming down.(wisc.)
i am sure we will have a sweet table on sun. morn from PTICEK'S bakery

cool I have not seen buzz in awhile..sweet table..bend my arm

i was in k-zoo today.
so i picked up a case of BELL'S OBERON bottles.
hope to save till sat. night

also going to have fresh lake erie walley , & lake mich. salmon

I'll be judging so have to go shut my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, and sing "lalalalala" now for this thread.

jpreiser wrote:I'll be judging so have to go shut my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, and sing "lalalalala" now for this thread.

you can stop by on fri. or sat.
just not sunday till judging is done , thin stop over

how long you been judging?

philw wrote:

jpreiser wrote:I'll be judging so have to go shut my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, and sing "lalalalala" now for this thread.

you can stop by on fri. or sat.
just not sunday till judging is done , thin stop over

how long you been judging?

I've judged many beer (both homebrew & commercial) competitions and done a few small, informal rib competitions along the lines of KCBS, but this will be my first KCBS sanctioned competition as a certified BBQ judge. (I took the CBJ class in Westmont earlier this year.)

jpresier ..stop by and introduce yourself if you are there on friday or sat. (or Sunday after judging)

I will get there this weekend and see Phil and Head's Red...need to try that sauce soon!!

Good luck both ya'all

sounds good, look forward to meeting you guys

Cbot wrote:I will get there this weekend and see Phil and Head's Red...need to try that sauce soon!!

Good luck both ya'all

just make sure its not between 10-2 on Sunday..thats crunch time
so I wont be too socialblee at that point

lots of fun as usual..saw Gary on Sunday along with jpreiser
Phil... you and Matt were great neighbors..thanks for the coffee and outstanding pastries and all...

ya it was great having you on one side & capt. merrill on the other.
great neighbors, friends & family= a great time.
great meeting jay after judging .
it was also great that buzz came down from wisc. rapids area.
always fun talking with gary,merrill,buzz , bill,matt & the whole crew
that came out for the fun.

LTH,

Thought I was going to judge Westmont, was an alternate, checked in with the Judge Liaison who said I would be judging. After an hour for them to get started, waiting in a hot tent, I lost my place in a weird KCBS version of musical chairs. This experience has done nothing to enhance my already shaky opinion of KCBS contests.

That said, not judging gave me time to hang out with Merrill, Nancy, Buzz, Phil, Matt and Bill. I tasted Merrill's brisket, it was excellent, and Phil/Buzz/Matt's pork, very tasty, well deserved calls to the stand on their part. Nice to see other LTHers as well including jpreiser and, damn, I forgot his LTH user name. (sorry)

Buzz, Matt, Phil W





Merrill and Nancy Powers



Bill Mehilos, Red Heads BBQ



Merrill and Nancy's 4th place brisket, out of 54 teams



Phil, Buzz and Matt's 9th place pork, out of 54 teams



Enjoy,
Gary

great looking boxes!

THANKS BILL ,
scoring was very close on most , seperated by a . point

Thanks for the pics Gary. We appreciate it. It was a fun time with everyone. I really learned alot from Buzz.

See you all soon hopefully.

Matt

G Wiv wrote:LTH,

... and, damn, I forgot his LTH user name. (sorry)

No problem. I think that was me or my buddy Josh, who is inter4alia on LTH. Inter4alia was the white dude, and I was the big-boned Indian dude. Sorry you didn't get to judge with us. That was very strange how they booted you after you'd already checked in.

Jpreiser, was the you who I sat next to at the judging table? We talked beer clubs for a little bit?

Good to see LTH represented fairly well at the competition!

the sleeve wrote:Jpreiser, was the you who I sat next to at the judging table? We talked beer clubs for a little bit?

Yep, that was me. -Joe

the sleeve wrote:

G Wiv wrote:LTH,
... and, damn, I forgot his LTH user name. (sorry)

No problem.

My brother's name is Steve, and my stepson calls him Uncle Sleeve. I'm pretty sure that's not you, but every time I see a post from you it makes me smile.

westmont contest coming up soon

Cool, May 27th thru 29th this year. Coming up quick.
I will get there this year to check it out, not competing or anything, just eatin' and drinkin'.
Would not mind helping out if any one needs some grunt work and stuff done let me know.
Like to see what it takes to do up a event like this from start to finish.

Would love to be there but going to be cooking up 1800 lbs of mudbugs Sat. And Sunday. Cbot you should come by for your maiden voyage one day....

going to use chef svens pork sausage for are turn inn for sausage.
it will be a fun weekend

meats arte trimmed(not seasoned)for the comp.
looks like great weather.

Hope ya have a great time Phil.That damn sweet table would be worth the drive alone... I have 180 # or so of buts in Rainmaker now.Guess What it looks like rain !

I got back from Westmont a couple of hours ago. I was going to be judging the competition, but never got a chance too because of the weather. About 10 minutes before we were to get our first round of turn-ins (the chicken), the organizers put everything on hold because of potential 70mph winds, which they thought were headed our way. When I say they put everything hold, I mean everything. The cooks were told to hold off on turning in their food until further notice. Us judges were sent off to shelters for cover. Many of us went to our respective vehicles, whereas some went to shelters which were set up by the organizers. Although that first gush of winds/storms did not come through, about an hour later, another was on the horizon with no certainty as to when things would resume. That's when I had to call it quits and leave because of family obligations in the afternoon.

I would really be interested in hearing from someone who was competing in the event. Philw? Anyone else? How did you handle the situation? What were you told? Having competed in a few KCBS competitions with fellow LTH'r inter4alia, I could imagine the complications this caused for the cooks, and I'm very curious to find out the details from the cooks' side.

i thought it was handled bad.
we had chicken in the box wolking it up to the judges tent. & the judges are walking out of the tent.
and all we heard was that someone had told the reps to seek shelter.
so that through a wench in the works.
but for all ,had same problem.
so we got turned in @ 2pm with chicken & so on .
got a 4th place call in pork

62 teams this year

Phil W Turn In boxes

Phil - again nice showing considering the weather and ridiculous hold ups at the judging tent......wonder who made that dumb decision ..ive cooke din all kinds of weather and short of a visible tornado Ive never seen turn in times or anything else for that matter held up..what time did awards start..9 PM?

in fact I was out all day yesterday cooking BBQ under my canopy for family ..lots of rain thunder and lightning but NO wind..so what exactly prompted them to evacuate the judging tent ?