Keepin’ It Smokin’ Competition BBQ

11/17/2025

The BBQ tour rolls on , this week was Big Belly BBQ , Davenport FL. Packed house with some great teams making the feild. We felt good about lids we closed , judgment some what agreed.

5th Chicken
9th Ribs
21st Pork
2nd Brisket

6th overall

Onto our home town competition this weekend.

As always, thank you to our sponsors that help us stay in the hunt week in and week out.

Heath Riles BBQ
Sweet Smoke Q
That Sharpening Guy

11/11/2025

10/26/2025

Keepin it Smokin made the not so short trip to Panama BBQ Brawl in the fall. We competed in this contest every year and definitely coming back. These folks do fantastic job taking care of us teams, highly recommend this competition. Great cause to support helping kids is always top notch in my book.

Royal Oak Charcoal has been the burning 🔥 fuel thats has elevated our BBQ scores for few years now.

This weekend was no exception. Tale of the tape is as follows

Chicken 🐔 5th place
Prairie Fresh Ribs 19th (yes turn them in again 🤔🫣)
Pork 1st place
Snake River Farms briz 7th (my fault )

Well wont believe it another TIE , this time for Reserve Grand Champions with our BBQ brothers Team Smoke N’ Ash !!!!

However want give a HUGE shout out to our BBQ mentor , sponsor and more importantly our great friend Sweet Smoke Q for the WIN 🏆 . Your welcome for talking you into going on literally the last possible hours 😆 🤣 . Great cook bro.

Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy

Up next all these guys plus Going Yard BBQ coming to the Big Pig Jig ... Florida is going to be in the house.

10/20/2025

Well ....Back to Back Grand Champions 🏆 for the 1st time. We made the trip to Hart Springs FL, we've enjoyed this contest for 5yrs now. Dona and her team keep getting event better each year.

Our cook wasn't smooth by any means lol. Not sure you can cook pork much longer than we did 🤔. However the BBQ luck was with us this weekend. We closed 2 really soild boxes other 2 ehhh.

We were awarded as follows

Chicken 🐔 1st place
Prairie Fresh Ribs 8th place
Pork 1st place PERFECT SCORE 😲
Snake River Farms Briz 4th place

Overall Grand Champions with a monster score 790.876 !!! Almost the FBA all time record 😲

Congratulations Tillmans BBQ on RGC, this team is hard to beat.

Thanks to our sponsors who's products and equipment Keep us Smokin at the top.

Sweet Smoke Q
Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy

09/28/2025

This is rare air here in Smokin' In The Pines BBQ Festival. Was a bit of rainy soggy Friday /Saturday morning. 🌞 finally came out mid morning Saturday and Festival was popping.

Our cook wasn't very smooth the weather threw us few curve balls, but that's cooking comp BBQ. We closed 4 lids that we were happy with and felt we put out some decent BBQ. Here starts tale of the ties.

Chicken 9th
Prairie Fresh Ribs tie for 2nd
Prairie Fresh Pork tie for 1st
Snake River Farms Brisket 2nd

With a rare TIE for Grand Champions 🏆 with Going Yard BBQ . That was wild.

Bentley made the trip with us , really enjoy that he likes to come along and cook as well. He did a fantastic job. Taking 5th place.

Thanks to our sponsors for keepin us Smokin
Sweet Smoke Q
Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy

Got couple weeks off the start the gauntlet run to end the BBQ season. Congratulations to all who walked.

07/14/2025

South Carolina Festival of Discovery 2025 is in the books. We brought the family as normal and as always the BBQ family is always in the mix. This group of family is for sure as tight as it gets, we make memories every contest. This year no exception, lots of laughs , few birthday wishes 😂😂 iykyk. Where ever we go we have a blast.

Bentley battled the rain and the "adult" Kids Q cooks 😂. He did a great job making some killer bacon wrapped pinwheel burgers 🍔. So proud of him he got 4th this year 👏. We get em next year bro.

Our cook wasn't smooth but we managed to make some calls and turn in some decent boxes.

No top ten calls , but we cooked solid enough for

13th overall out of 66 great teams,

In this group at this place ,really respectable day cooking. We will get it all together soon.

Best sponsors in the game help keep us smoking.

Sweet Smoke Q
Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy

06/22/2025

The 5th annual Possa Q BBQ Comp is in the books , sadly the last one 🥺. Keepin it Smokin is proud to say we experience 3 years of this event, truly top level event. Cristi and her staff do an amazing job taking care of teams.

While team count was down from past years , still a very STACKED field of great pitmasters , from coast to coast. We tried bring lil Florida flare with our pools and Tito's flowing Thursday night.

Weather made for muddy event non the less we had a blast. Our cook went well few lil hiccups but we recovered well😎.

Chicken 5th place
Ribs 23rd 😩. 1st on table
Pork 10th
Brisket 4th

Secured us our very 1st 700 !! , with a 701 good enough for 4th overall. Glad have that box checked off the wish list. Back to back years 4th 😁 here.

Huge thanks to our BBQ sponsors , these products and supplies keep us in the hunt.

Heath Riles BBQ
Sweet Smoke Q
That Sharpening Guy

Up next , Greenwood SC

05/27/2025

The 1st ever Sizzle an Splash is in the books , she was a HOT 🥵🔥 one. 28 Pro teams ended up braving the intense heat to decide who a BBQ warrior champion. Few hiccups but staff really gave there all too pull off this event , and their efforts didn't go unnoticed, thanks to all !

As for our cook , we just didn't have the guns this week , meat just wasn't good enough. These top teams here in Florida are tough to beat. We caught some decent calls got hear our name few times.

Chicken 8th
Prairie Fresh Ribs 15th
Pork 5th
Snake River Farms Briz 7th
Landed us 7th overall

Up next Possa Q !!! Few tweaks coming, we will be back 😎.

This year we switched to Royal Oak Charcoal it's been great for us keeping us in the top area of contest.

Huge thank you to our amazing sponsors
Sweet Smoke Q
Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy was awesome to catch up with you bro

03/23/2025

Keepin’ It Smokin’ Competition BBQ made a rare southbound trip to Venice FL this weekend. Cooking BBQ in an airport field was different an fun. We celebrated birthdays 🎉, had some great times with our BBQ family , had special quest appearance from the OG 9 am fireball 🥃 shot Tim Maloy got us on track to .

As for our cook it wasn't the smoothest ever , it happens. We managed to get some decent BBQ into the boxes and get them across the table. Our Royal Oak Charcoal kept our fries burning clean in our Sweet Smoke Q drums.

Chicken 12th 🤔
Prairie Ribs tied for 5th
Prairie Fresh Pork 4th
Snake River Farms Briz 2nd 💪

Good enough for 3rd overall

As always our sponsors our some of best in the game , and it was great to have Jim and Roni back out with us this weekend along with several other teams.

smoke Q
Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy

Lil time off to get some things done maybe squeeze in a vacation before we get rolling again.

03/02/2025

Spent the weekend cooking for strangers in the woods 🤣. Smokin Country Jam at Suwanee River Music park Florida BBQ Association event. Turned out some good Q , just enough to be close to the top ...again.

Chicken 🐔 4th
Prairie Fresh Ribs 7th
Pork 3rd
Snake River Farms 5th place

For 3rd overall out of 23 teams

Much thanks to our sponsors who keep us rolling smoke in the woods and parking lots.
Sweet Smoke Q
Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy

Off this week , then possible back to back weekends. Restock Reload hit em again ...

02/14/2025

Rib Sale !!!! Limited qty Keepin’ It Smokin’ Competition BBQ smoked ribs. Available for pick up plant city area. Ready on Saturday Feb 22nd 4 pm. Contact Jason Norris. 863 319 0227 or msg on Facebook.

02/09/2025

BBQ took a short ride to Grills Gone wild Davenport FL. Dustin an Danny put on one heck of an event. This comp with sunny Florida really only place to cook right now across the country , drew alot of the best teams from all over. We had a solid cook things with new rig are getting smoother.

Chicken 6th place we knew was lil tight judges agreed 👍.
Prairie Fresh Ribs 16th
fresh Pork 20th
Snake River Farms brisket 6th 😎

14th overall outa 25 great teams

Thank you to our sponsors who keep us smokin
Sweet Smoke Q
Heath Riles BBQ
That Sharpening Guy