Smokin' Sweetmeats BBQ Team

Whew!! Sweetmeats are home and done with our May contest challenge—5 competitions in 4 weeks with 2 in Georgia and 3 in Tennessee. We were blessed to land in the top 10 in 3 of the 5 🤩, saw beautiful mountains, rivers and shared endless laughter with some of the best cook teams in the country. Thank you Chris Finkbone for putting together a great contest Honeybee Festival - LaFayette, GA that kicks off summer for us every year! Thanks as always to Robert Vanderipe and Lex Vanegas for being the best KCBS reps out there. Here’s our results:
Chicken 3rd
Ribs 13th
Pork 2nd
Brisket 3rd. 4th place overall!
Congratulations to on their super GC and on their RGC!
Congrats to all who got their name called this weekend, we are ready for a well-earned break. Happy summer to all, we’ll see you in July 🙌🥰🫶

Well the KCBS World invitational BBQ is in our rearview mirror as we arrive home exhausted and rain-soaked from our doubleheader +1 weekend in Lebanon, TN. Sweetmeats took on the challenge to cook chicken 3 times as well as 2 full comps in 3 days…what were we thinking!😂 It was a blast seeing tons of bbq friends from GA and other states get calls to the stage — big shoutout to Kings BBQ on his Wells Cup GC Saturday 🏆🫶. We got a 13th place chicken call Springer Mountain Farms on Saturday and a 6th place perfect 180 chicken call Sunday! Congratulations to on GC on Sunday, and to everyone that had the opportunity to hear your name and walk the stage this weekend 🙌🥰
One…more… competition this month — see everyone at Honeybee Festival - LaFayette, GA if you’re coming!

As always we thank those who’ve supported us with their products:



won’t use any else!

Sweetmeats rolled in last night for the KCBS World invitational BBQ contest in Lebanon, TN. Looks like we are going to be soggy for the Chicken Championship today but better skies tomorrow! Breakfast out with the early birds with our favorite waitress and taking dry dog walks while we can. Good luck to everyone 🤩🙌

Sweetmeats rolled in late last night from a great time in Sevierville, TN — awesome time off with bbq friends cooking at our campsites, going out to eat in Pigeon Forge and off course Micro Wrestling!! Bob Johanns and his group always do a great job organizing this event and the town floods the festival for 2 days straight. We had a solid cook and were pretty happy going into awards, here’s what happened:

Chicken-2nd place! Springer Mountain Farms
Ribs-3rd place (finally!!)
Pork-6th place Prairie Fresh
Brisket-18th place Snake River Farms
We took 3rd place Overall 🙌
Congratulations to Glamping Grillers Competition BBQ Team on their GC and
Tommy Blackmon BlueSmoke on RGC!
As always, thanks to those that keep up stocked up and rolling;
The Atlanta BBQ Store
Heath Riles BBQ
Hunsaker Smokers
Meat Head Charcoal

Congratulations to all that heard their names called this weekend 🤩Next we turn back around on Thursday to head up for a double header at the KCBS Invitational and Wells Cup in Lebanon, TN. We’ll see y’all there!

Sweetmeats are set up at the Bloomin' BBQ Music & Food Festival in beautiful mountains of Sevierville, TN. We are surrounded by an elite group of teams from around the country, ready to grab an award skillet tomorrow! Good luck everyone—ancillaries run tonight for beans, sausage and dessert!
Heath Riles BBQ
The Atlanta BBQ Store
Hunsaker Smokers

We just want to give a HUGE shoutout to the Apalachee High School bbq team who just took RGC this weekend up in Acworth, GA!! The coaches and students have been working so hard to achieve this goal and asked for our guidance in chicken a few weeks back. Sweetmeats are so pumped that they cooked so well and grabbed that trophy with just 2 weeks left of school!! Way to go everyone 🏆🥰🙌🐓

Sweetmeats are back from our favorite contest close to home Boss Hog Cook-Off
This contest, by far, treats the cooks better than any place we go! The Waynesboro community comes out in full force and it’s so much fun to see. We were lucky enough to grab a 7th place chicken Springer Mountain Farms and 8th place pork Korte Meats Competition Bbq , landing us back in the top 10 at 7th place! Congratulations to Waylon Weatherford and Tammy on their Big Dawg GC and on RGC!
We’ll be turning this trailer around in 2 days to head up to Bloomin' BBQ Music & Food Festival in Sevierville, TN to have some chill time with friends beforehand. Thanks to all that support our bbq travels:
Heath Riles BBQ
The Atlanta BBQ Store
Hunsaker Smokers

Just a traditional Sweetmeats dog team member pic — really missing our Dixie girl this weekend 😢😘

Sweetmeats are back in our old space here at the Boss Hog Cook-Off in Waynesboro, GA. Beautiful weather here today for the wings and strawberry ancillaries tonight! Let’s keep our fingers crossed for good tomorrow as well — let’s have some fun 🤩
Heath Riles BBQ
The Atlanta BBQ Store
Hunsaker Smokers

Sweetmeats have got that Florida kinda feeling this weekend! We’re set up and ready to have fun at the Downtown BBQ Showdown. It’s gonna be a great weather event and stacked with 41 stellar teams — let’s goooo 🤩🤪