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Bunch of Swines UK BBQ Competition BBQ Team. 60+ Grand and Reserve Grand Championships, including the 2018 American Royal Invitational World Champion.

🏆 2,300 MILES DRIVEN ACROSS 8 COUNTRIES & ANOTHER GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP! 🏆After an epic European tour, we are finally back ...
07/20/2026

🏆 2,300 MILES DRIVEN ACROSS 8 COUNTRIES & ANOTHER GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP! 🏆

After an epic European tour, we are finally back home and what a trip it was! We covered over 2,300 miles and crossed 8 countries to compete against the very best at two incredible events, with some brilliant R&R tucked in the middle.

First stop was Croatia 🇭🇷 for the fantastic No Smoke No Glory contest. We knew we had a good cook making our way to the 700+ club with a total score of 701!
6th Chicken
3rd Ribs
3rd Pork
6th Brisket
This some other guys had an even better cook as this was only good enough for 3rd Place Overall on a seriously stacked podium. Huge congrats to the legend Brad of Gettin' Basted on his massive 714 GC and Cooklounge on RGC!

With a double contest in Austria the next week, we took some well-deserved rest in Slovenia, which turned out to be absolutely amazing. Stunning scenery and great food all around us. We visited the Michelin-recommended Kodila Gourmet. Their restaurant served up some truly incredible food, and we couldn't resist raiding their amazing deli to stock up on hams and local charcuterie. Between that and eating our way through some fantastic local restaurants, Slovenia completely blew us away.

🇦🇹 AUSTRIA: THE EUROPEAN INVITATIONAL & OPEN 🇦🇹
Fully rested it was time for business and on to Austria for the KCBS European Invitational and Open back-to-back.

In the Invitational, we went up against the best of the best on the continent and managed 6th Overall, thanks to:
2nd Chicken
2nd Brisket

But we weren't done yet. For the Open contest, we dialed it in a bit and managed to bag a PERFECT 180 SCORE in Brisket 💯, which helped propel us all the way to GRAND CHAMPION! 🏆👑
1st Chicken
2nd Pork
1st Perfect Snake River Farms Brisket (180!)

To come home with a 700+ score, a perfect 180, and a Grand Championship trophy on a massive road trip made driving home much easier.

We’ve got to say congratulations to Smoking Butchers on winning the invitational and also to Mr Consistent, aka Geri of Cooklounge BBQ for RGC’ing both days in Austria as well as that one in Croatia. Impressive!

Massive thanks as always to Carmans E&L N.V. & Dave_Traeger_Project for sourcing the top-tier meats. The winning combination of Big Poppa Smokers, Blues Hog, and Gateway Drum Smokers absolutely nailed it once again.

Time to give the van, smokers and us a good wash and get some sleep!

🏎️💨 Changing up the view this week...We’re in a slightly different type of office for the next few days! 🪵🔥We’ve set up ...
07/02/2026

🏎️💨 Changing up the view this week...

We’re in a slightly different type of office for the next few days! 🪵🔥

We’ve set up camp at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix. The grills are already fired up and we’ll be cooking briskets and ribs all weekend for the F1 fans.

Naturally, we had to bring the big smoker out!

Grand Champion again at Day 2 Spitsbroek on Fire BBQ competition!!!After what’s felt like a long winter, we were excited...
04/26/2026

Grand Champion again at Day 2 Spitsbroek on Fire BBQ competition!!!

After what’s felt like a long winter, we were excited to back on the road and heading to Holland 🇳🇱 for the Spitsbroek on Fire KCBS double and start our new BBQ season.

So on day one, we were definitely a bit rusty with the only calls for us being a 5th place chicken and a 5th place brisket call. But we knew what we needed to change and day two went a lot better.

1st place Chicken
4th place Ribs
5th place Pork
1st place Snake River Farms Brisket

This was good enough to give us another Grand Championship.

Congrats to Its Spice That Meats You on RGC and everyone else who got calls. And congrats to the day one winners The Antwerp Smokers GC and BBQ Hot Yard RGC.

Huge thanks has to go to Carmans E&L N.V. & Dave_Traeger_Project who’ve helped us sourcing and shipping great competition meats.

As always the combination of Big Poppa Smokers, Blues Hog and Gateway Drum Smokers delivered again!

Finally, thank you to the guys and girls from and who all did an amazing job organising not only a smooth competition, but also great food drinks and entertainment.

Wow… another world championship and another walk on the big stage! 3rd place brisket at Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo...
03/01/2026

Wow… another world championship and another walk on the big stage!

3rd place brisket at Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo BBQ contest! That’s two years back to back finals calls for our Snake River Farms Brisket and we finally get one of these sweet trophies to take home.

As always the combination of Big Poppa Smokers, Blues Hog and Gateway Drum Smokers is key to what we do and it definitely delivered again!

Finally we just want to say thanks to everyone who came by and chatted/laughed/had a beer with us over the weekend, there’s so many of you and it’s always the highlight of our trips and massive congratulations to everyone else who got calls this weekend.

I guess we’d better think about packing and getting to the airport as we start making our way home.

It’s been 6 years since we did our last non-competition class, but it’s also the one we get asked about the most!Well… W...
01/09/2026

It’s been 6 years since we did our last non-competition class, but it’s also the one we get asked about the most!

Well… We’re finally doing it! We’re bringing back our “Zero to Hero” American BBQ Class on the 30th of May at Socal BBQ Shop

It doesn’t matter what your experience level is or what BBQ you have, we’ll be cooking on so many different BBQ’s and sharing our knowledge from the last 20 years to help you make better BBQ.

This isn’t your run-of-the-mill sausage sizzle or couple of burgers type of BBQ; we’ll be covering and cooking:

Meat selection, trimming, fire management, hot & fast vs low & slow.
The Big Three: Brisket (Texas & Kansas style), Pork Shoulder, and St. Louis Ribs.
The Crowd Pleasers: Beef Short Ribs, Pork Belly, and Chicken.
The Sides: Then we’ll make it a meal with our sides of BBQ Beans, Cornbread, Mac & Cheese, and Slaw.

The class will start at 10am sharp and finishes at 4pm after we’ve finished with all the slicing, serving and feasting on everything cooked on the day.

This is the only class we have planned for 2026, so if you want to know more, go to the SoCal Website. Link in comment below. 👇

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