– Louie Gohmert has a burning desire to cook ribs at the US Capital:

 

– It looks like Gohmert’s balcony barbecue may be back up and running next year. 

– Zimmerhanzel’s in Smithville is the classic on again, off again, on again, off again, on again barbecue joint relationship. In other words, they have reopened yet again. 

– Terry Gordon was already $10,000 deep when he realized he couldn’t turn an old Royce City gas station into a barbecue joint. Now he has a mobile barbecue trailer. 

– For the third year in a row, Franklin Barbecue is on this list:

 

– Bon Appetit has some answers on where to find great barbecue for dinner in Austin.

– The BBQ Industry blog talked to Lance Kirkpatrick at Stiles Switch about their cooking methods and how they manage to keep from selling out of barbecue.

– The Scrumptious Chef has some notes on sourcing the right brisket.

– Reportedly, a barbecue trailer explosion did this in Houston:

 

– Robert Moss talked about his article on forgotten Georgia pitmasters with Michael Twitty and GPB News. 

– The best pitmaster in DC, per the Washington Post, is opening a new barbecue joint, but he’s gotta use a Southern Pride smoker. 

– Monk’s Meats is a vegan butcher shop in Brooklyn that also serves its smoked “wheat meat” at a barbecue stand. 

– This is why you front-load your barbecue trailer:

 

– John Mueller was spotted in Houston at Pappa Charlie’s Barbeque making a sausage delivery. He hasn’t been seen in barbecue circles since his J Mueller Meat Co. in Austin was seized by the state for failure to pay sales taxes.

– Tickets for the HOU BBQ Festival are on sale, and there’s a limited time discount.

– Texas BBQ Treasure Hunt headed to Pinkerton’s Barbecue in Houston for their preview, and filed a report.

– Furious Grill has collected some of their favorite barbecue sites around the web and shared a description of each.

– Talking wood-fired cooking with Tim Byres:

 

– The Dallas Observer talked with Ashton Stauffer of Jambo’s BBQ Shack in Arlington about being a woman in barbecue. 

– Mike Sutter is back on the barbecue beat. This time it’s in Helotes at B Daddy’s BBQ. 

– The fourth annual Texas Kosher BBQ Championship comes to San Antonio this weekend. 

– 2M Smokehouse opened in San Antonio with poblano/Oaxaca cheese sausage, salt-and-pepper brisket, and barbecue syrup. 

– Four months after their first brick-and-mortar, Heim BBQ is going for #2:

 

– The Atlanta Journal Constitution took a barbecue tour with Bob Herndon, founder of the Atlanta Bar-B-Q Club. The article notes that Atlanta has more barbecue joints per capita than any other city.

– The BBQ Hub took issue with the AJC’s claim about the amount of barbecue in Atlanta, so they did some of their own figuring.

– J.C. Reid of the Houston Chronicle headed to North Carolina to savor the outside brown.

– John Shelton Reed muses on the mistakes often made by candidates when consuming North Carolina barbecue, and suggests Hillary may have had a better showing in the state if she’d chosen her barbecue meal more carefully.

– Brisket blessed by Bill Murray:

Ok…so we’re finally ready to give up our big secret…#brisketsblessedbybillmurray

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