County Smoak

Who wants some Smoaked Banana Pudding? On special this weekend while supplies last!

Just another day at Smoak with a cinematic touch. #lynchburg #Virginia

Kind words from @libertyfootball @coachchadwell while our team served up our bbq on campus this weekend. #Lynchburg #Virginia

Thank You for a great day today. We will see you tomorrow at 11:00!

Check out what our Legendary Guest Walter has Smoaking in his new @webergrills . Walter won the Star & Stripes Weber Kettle at our Whole Hog Dinner for the Golden Ticket winners from our Christmas Coal! Thank you walter for sharing your cook with us!

Well it’s that time again, @outsidethecone just put out All Smoaked Out! Their Co-Lab featuring our Prime Brisket, COrnbread and Smoaked bacon toffee. Repost from @outsidethecone • Our Co-Lab original flavor “All Smoaked Out” with @countysmoak returns! We typically only make this once a year, so get it while you can, it sells out quickly! Madagascar vanilla ice cream is layered with brisket toffee chunks, Smoaked bacon caramel swirls, and honey cornbread! Our friends at County Smoak smoaked the bacon and brisket to perfection, and also made the honey cornbread for this flavor!

@mapleleaffarms Loaded Pastrami Duck Leg fries! Fries fried in Duck Fat served with a Havarti Dill cheese Sauce and house made Russian Dressing! Thank you to the Chef Jeff for having us back to @pigbeachqueens !

Today while I’m in Decatur Alabama for Don’s funeral. Eugene, Mike and Chloe are at @pigbeachqueens serving our dish for the Chef Jeff event. To be able to be here in Alabama is because of our amazing team, friends and family! I hope everyone enjoys the @mapleleaffarms Pastrami Duck Leg Loaded French Fries we are serving! Today is for Don and his legacy in the BBQ World! #bbqfamily

💥 @countysmoak gets the @carolinabbqfestival started RIGHT! 🔥 And his work began Friday just after noon. By the Kickoff that night, he was ready to wrap the smaller briskets. 😋 Come Saturday @carniesmeatcircus delivered one of my every year favorite bites … and #BBQforaCause in support of @opbbqrelief 🤔 And talking with Ken … he’s a mad culinary scientist bringing some crazy idea tastes to other events. While I’d like to see that side … I don’t think Carolina BBQ festival would be the same without his pastrami, mustard and fire and ice pickles.

I lost my mentor @don.mclemore.7 on Saturday. Don was the heart and soul of @bigbobgibsonbbq He’s forgotten more about BBQ than most will ever know. He loved his family more than anything in the world. He taught me how to change my approach from my Greenbrier Chef days with our employees at BBGBBQ. The perfect Southern Gentleman, yet the way he kept current on his bills, demanded quality and respected what his customers wanted. This is the foundation that @countysmoak is built on! Jess even explained it to some of our staff on Sunday, that how we treat and pay our team is the next evolution of how Don ran BBGBBQ with @chrislillybbq Our Alabama White BBQ Sauce is called The Don because of his influence on Jess and myself. The day that Don and Carolyn got to eat at County Smoak with @amylilly3 & @julieestes7 is one of my proudest days of County Smoak! To hear how proud he and Carolyn were of all of our food, and what Jess and our team and I have built here in Lynchburg Va, brought tears to our eyes! yes I’m crying now as I type this, and I have been since i found out this past Saturday. It’s hard when you lose your teachers and mentors in any business, yet the loss that the Big Bob Gibson family has experience is going to be felt for a long time. I am grateful for the fact that Michael Mazur, Chloe Torres and Eugene Brown are able to help cover me at the Chef Jeff Event at @pigbeachqueens this weekend, so I can be in Alabama where I belong! The last picture is of Don and his best friend Bill who passed away during Covid. They always talked about fishing together, and what we could do better at the next BBQ competition! I hope they are fishing and figuring out what we can do next time we cook together!

What a fantastic weekend we had at the @carolinabbqfestival down in Charlotte! Thank you to @iamsweetlew for having us down to represent Virgina BBQ. It’s always an honor to help raise money for our amazing friends @opbbqrelief who have almost served 16 Million meals since 2011! Having friends and family from all time periods of our BBQ journey, helping serve our food is a blast. Then to see all of our BBQ friends from our BBQ journey is like a family reunion. We even got to meet another Virgina BBQ establishment @redwoodsmoke ! Bob and his team knocked out a great dish showing off what Virginia is doing for our State’s BBQ future! We also won the Flavor Bomb award from Savor Charlotte! So we won a new pig and we shall call it Reuben! The greatest award though was seeing Obi get to join Pops and me cooking another BBQ event together. It reminds me of cooking with my grandpa, dad and me on his back porch in Oklahoma! Just his trusty @webergrills a chimney and a bag of @kingsford charcoal. He always had some @headcountrybbq sauce for glazing up some pork country style ribs! I know Obi and Maya are paying attention to what they learn from Ali, Jess, me and all of our staff, and that makes me proud. BBQ has a way of slowing things down even as you know the train is going full speed!

All of us here at the Smoak Shack want to congratulate @brendayourfrienda44 & @tj_wilkerson8 on their wedding today!!! What so great is that these two long term team members started dating while working with us!! We wish you both a lifetime of love, and adventures together!