The Smoke Sheet

28/02/2024

In today's issue, Monk from Barbecue Bros writes about the excellent palmirabbq, which recently opened its first full restaurant in Charleston. Pitmaster/owner Hector Garate offers up delicious whole hog, beef cheeks, hash and rice, and so much more in a hip new space. Read: https://bbqnewsletter.substack.com/p/palmira-bbq-charleston

21/02/2024

In today's issue, our friend Ed Reilly wrote up some of the most eye-catching BBQ and backyard products at the annual HPBExpo, including from MEATER, Napoleon, Blackstone Products, Louisiana Grills, Brisk It Grills, and more. Read: https://bbqnewsletter.substack.com/p/7-best-bbq-backyard-products-hpbexpo-2024

15/02/2024

In this week's issue, we spoke with influencer and pitmaster Christie Vanover of Girls Can Grill about how she got into BBQ and grilling, inclusiveness in BBQ, the state of competition, her new BBQ Tips podcast, and so much more. Read: https://bbqnewsletter.substack.com/p/girls-can-grill-christie-vanover-bbq

07/02/2024

In this week's issue, we chatted with our friend Ben Sassani, a talented Houston-based photographer and creative force behind BBQ Confessional. He talked about a lot more than just BBQ and shared some of his favorite pictures/stories from the likes of Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, Daniel Vaughn from Texas Monthly, Ali Clem from la Barbecue, Bradley Robinson of Chuds BBQ, Joanne Irizarry of Barbs B Q, and more. Check it out:
https://bbqnewsletter.substack.com/p/ben-sassani-bbq-confessional

31/01/2024

In this week's issue, Sean highlights 5 barbecue-focused events happening in the first half of 2024 that you should check out, including the Iowa BBQ Store Bash, Houston Barbecue Festival, Brisket King NYC, and the two big competing Memphis competitions. Read here: https://bbqnewsletter.substack.com/p/5-big-bbq-events-in-early-2024

24/01/2024

In today's issue, our friend John Tanner of John Tanner's Barbecue Page shared his favorite BBQ side dishes of 2023, including those from Porkey's BBQ, McCabe’s BBQ, Odd BBQ, Chef J BBQ, and Rusty's Bar-B-Q. Read here: https://bbqnewsletter.substack.com/p/best-bbq-side-dishes-of-2023

17/01/2024

In today's issue of the newsletter, Monk from Barbecue Bros dives into the history of The Original Ridgewood Barbecue, founded 75 years ago by the Proffitt family in East Tennessee. The joint was chronicled in the fascinating book "The Proffitts of Ridgewood" by Fred W. Sauceman. Read here: https://bbqnewsletter.substack.com/p/proffitts-of-ridgewood-tennessee-barbecue

17/01/2024

Check out the wonderful tribute to John Brotherton from the BBQ community in this article from Daniel Vaughn. ❤️

https://www.texasmonthly.com/bbq/john-brotherton-tribute

People in the Texas barbecue community share stories about the owner of Brotherton’s Black Iron Barbecue, in Pflugerville, who died this week.

16/01/2024

Rest In Peace, John. Thank you for all of the support you gave us and so many others in the BBQ community over the years.

10/01/2024

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https://www.chron.com/food/article/brotherton-barbecue-pitmaster-texas-18600388.php

Brotherton's Black Iron Barbecue's John Brotherton is in a medically induced coma. His pitmaster brothers and sisters are trying to help.

10/01/2024

In today's issue, BBQ Tourist shares 7 classic BBQ road trip books that will inspire you to hit the road for adventure and smoked meats. Read here: https://bbqnewsletter.substack.com/p/seven-classic-bbq-road-trip-books

08/01/2024

A GoFundMe campaign for John Brotherton of Brotherton’s Black Iron BBQ has been created by our friends at Roegels Barbecue. Please considering donating and/or sharing far and wide!

Many of us know and love John (JMFB) Brotherton who is one of the biggest s… Russell Roegels needs your support for John and Brenda Brotherton need your help

03/01/2024

In today's issue, we share some reflections on 2023's biggest stories, including fun events we took part in, notable guest contributions, and milestones. Plus, we share what we're looking forward to in 2024, including a trip to North Carolina. Read here: https://bbqnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-smoke-sheet-2023-recap

26/12/2023

Very sad news out of Hemingway, South Carolina.

Our heart goes out to the family of Ms. Ella Jane Scott, the owner of Scott’s Bar-B-Que, a small rural place named the best barbecue joint in the South by no less than author and Southern Liv…

20/12/2023

In today's issue, we and a few friends shared some of the best BBQ bites we ate in 2023. Some of our top stops included Buck Tui BBQ, Meat Mitch, J’s Smokehouse, Little Miss BBQ, 2Fifty Texas BBQ, Longleaf Swine BBQ, Rancho Lewis, Rusty's Bar-B-Q, and Wildwoods BBQ. Read here: https://bbqnewsletter.substack.com/p/best-bbq-bites-of-2023

13/12/2023

In today's issue, we share five great BBQ books published in 2023 that would be a perfect gift for any barbecue aficionado in your life (including yourself!), with titles from Franklin BBQ, "The Pitmaster" ED Mitchell, Grill Sisters, & more. Read: https://bbqnewsletter.substack.com/p/bbq-books-buy-for-holidays

01/12/2023

Here’s an update from Helberg Barbecue:

Update/praise report:

We got the gang together yesterday to do some interior cleaning of the building after our insurance gave us the green light. It felt great to be together again and get the space in which we’ve spent so many hours together looking a little better.

WE HAVE A TRAILER! The folks at Barnett's Whiskey House are graciously letting us borrow the trailer we’ve been operating out of down on Franklin Ave to get our weekly operation back up and running ASAP out in speegleville, with limited hours/menu.

We had a very uplifting meeting with the health department today laying out what we need to do in order to get our smokehouse operational, and it looks like that could be as early as next week! This means we are ready to start taking catering inquiries for 2+ weeks out, and our Christmas preorders will be back open this weekend for whole briskets, turkeys, turkey breasts, and more.

Y’all have blown us away with your support. The gofundme campaign to help support our staff while we work on getting back to full capacity has passed the halfway mark to the goal set by our dear friends, Mallory and Arnis Robbins of Evie Mae’s bbq in Wolforth, TX. There are several other fundraising opportunities that y’all can get involved in going on around town, which we will follow up with in a separate post and on our stories. Y’all have quite literally overwhelmed us with the support to where we are having a hard time keeping up with announcements and updates while we are juggling dealing with insurance adjusters (we only have personal property coverage unfortunately), and trying to put together a plan to open in some limited capacity. Stay tuned for more announcements on events you can attend locally.

We are looking for vendors that may be interested in selling our bbq rub, as we have hundreds of bottles available that were not damaged by the fire. They are currently available at Lane’s on Austin Ave and will soon be available for purchase on our website, which brings us to our next project: shipping!

We have been working on getting a nationwide shipping program going since the beginning of the year, and we figured as soon as we can start cooking in the smokehouse again, there’s no better time to roll that out. We will follow up when that becomes available on our website.

If you’ve made it this far, thanks for sticking with my info dump and lastly, be on the lookout for a bbq class fundraiser we plan to hold in January. We plan to get more of our crew involved in it so we can have more attendees than ever before, and hopefully raffle off some cool prizes.

Whew, that’s a lot, and there’s still so much more to share. These days are long and exhausting but nothing we aren’t used to. Thanks so much for following along. We love you all ❤️

-The Helbergs
📸: Corey Oconnell

27/11/2023

Helberg Barbecue suffered from a destructive fire last night. Please consider donating to help them out.

Help the Helberg’s keep their staff paid after the fire. I know they would appreciate any h… Mallory Robbins needs your support for Helberg Fire relief fund

22/11/2023

Sad news: Acclaimed Oakland-based BBQ joint Horn Barbecue sustained serious fire damage last night, closing the restaurant for the foreseeable future. Our thoughts are with Matt Horn and his crew during this difficult time.

A fire on Tuesday, November 21 resulted in extensive damage to the rear of Horn Barbecue’s building and the restaurant’s closure