058 Live @ Hobart Blues, Brews and Barbecues 2019 - a podcast by Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast

This is episode three of Season Five. This season covers the 2019 Australian Competitive BBQ Circuit and includes recordings from some of the biggest and best festivals from all over this beautiful wide brown land of ours. In short, I’m going to be spending the year flying, driving, eating, walking and talking my way around Australia and I’m bringing you along for the ride!

In this episode I jump in a car, then a plane, then another plane and then another car to get down to Hobart Brewing Company for the Hobart Blues, Brews and Barbecues Festival. It was my first time on the Apple Isle and I fell in love with the beauty of the land and warmness of the people. And what a spot for a BBQ Festival! Folks, it was literally a waterfront brewery! Add some smoked meats, icy cold beers, warm summer sunshine and beautiful blue skies and well, that’s my kind of heaven! The Tassie BBQ scene is obviously alive and well and it was great to see such camaraderie and mateship between competitors. I can’t wait to get back down there again next year!

Now, this will be the last episode for a little while. Season Five is the 2019 Australian Festival Series and it’s going to be a little while before I head to another competition in Australia. However, in three weeks time I’m heading to the States for a month. I’m going to the Hammond BBQ Challenge, which you would have heard about when I interviewed the promoter Eric Phares in Episode 7 of Season 3. It’s been the biggest competition in the state of Louisiana for the last 18 years so that’s going to be awesome. I’m then going to be interviewing several Louisianan pitmasters over the following week before partnering up with The BBQ Ninja at Hogs for the Cause, a huge charity BBQ Festival in New Orleans. You’ll remember Craig from Episode 6 of Season 3. We’re then road tripping up through Memphis and St Louis before hitting up Kansas City for the National BBQ & Grilling Association’s Annual Conference and Festival. There’s four days of BBQ Nirvana going on there including a tour of the most famous BBQ joint in KC, the Conference, the Awards night, a live recording of TV cooking show ‘Culinary Food Fight’, and a Festival which includes an SCA competition.

From there, we’re having a few days R&R, white-water rafting in the Ozark Mountains and then I’m competing in an SCA competition in Conway, Arkansas and checking out the headquarters of PK Grills in their hometown of Little Rock. Then it’s back to Australia and back to my day job for a rest! Naturally, I’m taking my recording gear with me and will be sharing the entire trip with you. So Season 6 will be my U.S. Road Trip Part 2!

Before we get started, I’d like to let you know that my new ebooks are now available on the website. There is the second edition of my well-loved ‘27 Lessons Learned from Competition BBQ’ and also the deliciously new ‘Bacon Manifesto’. The ‘Bacon Manifesto’ includes what you need to know about making bacon at home and then some incredible recipes to give you an idea of what to do with it.

I’d also like to invite you to join us at the Smoking Hot Confessions Community on Facebook. If you’re looking for a BBQ group full of open-minded people who just love to help each other out, the Smoking Hot Confessions Community is a great place to continue the conversation.

Finally, however you’re listening to this episode, please subscribe, rate and review the show. It really helps me spread that BBQ love.

So without further ado, grab yourself a brisket pie, some microbrewed beer, and join me as I soak up the sunshine and good vibes of the Hobart Blues, Brews and Barbecues Festival 2019!

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