ButtBlast 2018

DMW

stlcharcoal said:

That was definitely a BLAST!  We had a great time......too little of it unfortunately.  We'll have to stay closer next year to get some more "quality time" with everyone.  Would have really liked to get to talk to NOLA, JIC, DMW, and some of the other characters here.  Hope to see you guys at the next one if not before.

So glad you could make it. Was great to finally meet you and put a face and handshake to the name.

JohnInCarolina

stlcharcoal said:

That was definitely a BLAST!  We had a great time......too little of it unfortunately.  We'll have to stay closer next year to get some more "quality time" with everyone.  Would have really liked to get to talk to NOLA, JIC, DMW, and some of the other characters here.  Hope to see you guys at the next one if not before.

I enjoyed talking to you for a bit there Jonathan and was really glad you made it out.  Thank you again for the very generous donations.  Those bags of Rockwood went fast at the raffle!  

If any of you haven’t had a chance to read about Rockwood’s story do yourself a favor and look into it.  Really interesting background and pretty cool how it’s all worked out.  

SciAggie

Dang y’all! That looks like a first class time with some good people. 

tarheelmatt

If anyone is interested, I have created a gallery on my website for BB18, and have the option for guest uploading of pictures.  I'd be sweet if most could dump their pictures on there for everyone to see.  

I have about 158 photos on right now.  

Gallery Link: 

https://www.matthewhusseyphotography.com/Events/2018-North-Carolina-Butt-Blast


Guest upload link: 

https://matthew-hussey.smugmug.com/upload/Z2x5mC/BB18

DMW

tarheelmatt said:

If anyone is interested, I have created a gallery on my website for BB18, and have the option for guest uploading of pictures.  I'd be sweet if most could dump their pictures on there for everyone to see.  

I have about 158 photos on right now.  

Gallery Link: 

https://www.matthewhusseyphotography.com/Events/2018-North-Carolina-Butt-Blast


Guest upload link: 

https://matthew-hussey.smugmug.com/upload/Z2x5mC/BB18

Very cool, I'll dump some pics up there tomorrow.

nolaegghead

just got back to New Orleans...will post later, exhausted 

tarheelmatt

Just a few random pictures I got off one camera.  


Part I

John and Dylan -   




JIC's burnt ends in the making. @JohnInCarolina



Caliprince and Caliqueen - @caliking





@piney making breakfast donut sammies!  




These two were up to no good!  Haha.  @Jeremiah




Beautiful day in NC!  The people were coming in nicely!  







@piney and @CTMike turned a nice prime briskey out!  





@CTMike




@JRWhitee makes some great pig shots!  




A meteor 





Wilbur on @CTMike s big rig!  




Yours truly and @CTMike working on Wilbur!  





@CTMike made some great beans (pineapple chipotle beans).  





Drop two letters in Duke and you get UK.... He still hates Atlanta's airport though.  








Chillin 



@Killit_and_Grillit





@CTMike bad azz setup!  






This IS family friendly!  






I'm glad I got to meet the master, @caliking ! This is my homie! 





@bucky925 better half made awesome giveaways for BB18!  Thank you to Bucky and Mrs. Bucky!  This was an awesome giveaway pal!  




Most of the crew!  




@Jupiter Jim does one heck of a job doing our giveaway!  I love this guy.  He loves my family and I love his!  Thanks Jim, as always!  





Thanks Kick Ash Basket!  




Thanks Smokeware - @The_Stache I'm sure appreciates that!  

tarheelmatt

Part II 

@Sea2Ski won some Smokeware cap!  Nice buddy and thanks Smokeware!  





@CTMike with his Smokeware ash tool!  





Thank you @tjv for the butcher paper!  Much appreciated.  Tom at CGS is great guy to deal with!  




This cat is jacked for pink butcher paper!  




Big thanks to @SRFANNELLA for the generous product!  We cooked some and then provided an opportunity for others to experience your product too! 











Thank you @UTAsports out of Mocksville, NC for the CI plate setter and Smokeware items! 





@Possumtrot won the flag!  Thanks @northGAcock for your generosity!  






I'm positive this will be another Rockwood loyal coming very soon!  Thank you @stlcharcoal for your generosity for two years straight AND making an appearance to BB18 this year.  Next year we'd love to welcome you to the Friday and Saturday night festivities!  











@Jeremiah hooked these up!  Thanks buddy! 





Kitty with some Dizzy Pig seasoning!  





These are nice chunks!  I used some today myself!  Thanks @stlcharcoal !










@JRWhitee with some Dizzy Pig!  






More great Smokeware stuff! 






Nobody wanted this but to wipe their butt with!  




@bgebrent cooking a SRF Black on the large! 



I have taught him well over the years.  













Maryn hanging after the event!  






Chilling before the after party! 





This is trouble...




@CTMike and his rig! 





Thanks @nolaegghead for your generosity buddy.  You seriously went above and beyond.  










The after party at @YukonRon and Suzy's place!  





Getting the crawfish boiler ready!





The elusive @johnmitchell




























@caliking was making up some fried onion fritters (I'm sure there's a better name than that).  

CTMike

Just got in the door - ran into horrible traffic delays in Northern VA and Northern NJ leading up to the GWB. Everyone made it home safe - even with the idiot in the green Expedition on I-85 who decided at the last minute to throw on his brakes and make a U-turn across the median. Thank goodness for ABS on the truck and trailer brakes on both axles. Come within 6” of crunching the guy in front and I think there’s paint on the firebox handle from the semi behind me. Dumbass. 

caliking

@CTMike glad you made it home safe. Despite idiots on the road.

Mad props to you for bringing Ol' Mortimer and smoking that hog. It was definitely one of the highlights.

And thank you for the use of your camp stove. Sorry about some of the batter drippings, but they should buff right out

CTMike

caliking said:

@CTMike glad you made it home safe. Despite idiots on the road.

Mad props to you for bringing Ol' Mortimer and smoking that hog. It was definitely one of the highlights.

And thank you for the use of your camp stove. Sorry about some of the batter drippings, but they should buff right out

It’s all good, was great to finally put a name to a face. Sadly I missed out on the onion fritters, next time hopefully. 

MaskedMarvel

northGAcock said:

I wanted to give a special thank you to those who donated to the Food Bank beside the Butt Blast III stickers. We raised $230 from your generous hearts and wallets. Making a quick bitness trip, but will get the funds in the hands of Harvest Hope Food bank on Tuesday. 

Greately appreciated.


Damien sAys — Was that you man? Thank you!!

GrateEggspectations

bgebrent said:

John said without a doubt, in any universe is there an airport better than Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson. He in fact applied for a job there. 

@bgebrent: You spilled beer on your crotch.... I hope.

GrateEggspectations

Thanks for sharing all of these photos. Looks like a really nice time. 

JohnInCarolina

Those are really great photos @tarheelmatt !

SandyHookEgger

500 said:

This was 4 hours away. Do-able. Will try and make it next year. 

I made it from Goochland so Midlothian would about the same. Trust me it was worth the trip. Just go on a 10 day fast prior to leaving.

tarheelmatt

JohnInCarolina said:

Those are really great photos @tarheelmatt !

Thanks John.  I'm still not really pleased with what I had, but I do have some video too, that's yet to come!  

piney

theyolksonyou said:

Looks like an awesome time. Sorry I missed it. This thing continues to grow.  Great job @JohnInCarolina @tarheelmatt and @piney

hopefully better planning for me next year. 

JohnInCarolina

I didn’t get a ton of pics, and think I've already posted what I have, so just a couple of thoughts/memories on this weekend.  

I see a lot of folks thanking me and Matt and Gary, and I'm sure the other guys appreciate that as much as I do, but the truth is that this is a lot of fun to put on.  And we're not the stars of the show.  A lot of work goes into this and the vast majority of it is done by the people who show up with their own food and cook for everyone.  So thanks to all of the cooks, first of all!  And thank you to all who turned out for the event on Saturday to come and try the food and help us eat as much of it as we could!

Some highlights for me:

1) Realizing somewhere on I-40 I'd left basil at home, and texting @caliking to see if he could pick me some up.  Then @caliking showing up with two full-grown basil plants.  Classic.

2) Running into @henapple Friday afternoon.  He'd actually told us he couldn't make it, so we had no idea he'd be there.  Best surprise I've had in a long time.  

3) @nolaegghead asking if he could borrow my pizza turner.  Sure I said, not even bothering to ask him what he needed it for.  Well he proceeded to stir his big batch of boiling crawfish with it, then return it to me with it bent at about 45 degrees.  "You're a mechanical engineer, you can bend it back" he said.  Later on I spotted him stealing my Roccbox peel to help funnel the crawfish into place.  That guy - gotta keep an eye on him.  

4) Making the very drunk call somewhere around 9pm Friday night to use the rest of my pizza dough.  I think those last couple of pies actually came out better than the others.  There's a lesson there for the future I guess. 

5) Messing with @bgebrent throughout the weekend.  Multiple Duke and UK magnets were exchanged and re-arranged continuously.  Finding my Yeti cup with the D and E taped over them. 

6) @DMW's breakfast sandwiches with scrapple, eggs, and cheese.  Damn those were good.  Just what I needed, along with the bloody Marys from @northGAcock to recover from the night before.  

7) My parents showing up and me introducing them to some of the regulars.  By the way, my Dad told me that it was pretty cool that everyone there seemed to really like me, so thank you all for being such skilled liars.   

@YukonRon met them and was carrying a big bag of bourbon slushies.  Did I want one? - he asked me in front of my parents.  Of course I said.  While I held the cup out, Ron poured the equivalent of an entire first one onto my arm and hand, missing the cup by a good half foot, before finally filling the cup.  In his defense, it's possible he'd had a few on his own by that point, as well as some other incapacitating substances.  It was absolutely hilarious.  

8) Nola telling my mother that I'd gotten really good at telling jokes that started with "Your mom..." Classic.  

9) @CTMike delivering a piece of the hog's cheek to me and a few others.  Damn that was perfect.  The rest of it was just as good.  Heard more than a few people comment on just how good that hog was.  

10) @bgebrent brisket Sat night.  He absolutely nailed it.  Then there was @YukonRon's beef tenderloin sliders, @Eggcelsior's pit beef, Nichole's pecan pie, Nola's crawfish, and finally @caliking's fritters.  It was all amazing.  Someone commented that the best food in all of NC was probably right there at Ron's camper that night.  I'm hard-pressed to disagree.  

11) Nola and Dwayne effing around with the fire Saturday night. At one point Nola threw an entire jug of oil, plastic and all, with almost no warning into the fire.  I've never seen a bunch of drunk people move so fast.  

12) @caliking chugging bourbon slushy mix straight from the bag, while @Killit_and_Grillit held the bag.  Then everyone chanting "Ahh-sheesh!  Ahh-sheesh!"  Only at a ButtBlast will you find a bunch of drunk white people cheering on an Indian guy as he chugs a frozen bourbon slushy near a camp fire in the middle of a state park in NC late on a Saturday night.  


Truly a Blast worth remembering.  Thanks again folks!  

nolaegghead

Got back late last night.  Henrik and I swung by my house and picked up my car and convoyed to our Gretna shop.  Parked the truck, fully loaded, inside and dropped him off at home, then tried watching Westworld, but faded out half way through.  Slept late and here I am. 

About to take a shower and take an Uber to the shop to unload and clean the unholy funk on the gear, see if the remaining oysters are alive, etc.

Good times, folks!

YukonRon

I was given a bucket loaded with pieces from bats that are currently being processed for the All Star Games by Louisville Slugger.
I was hoping to have them for Butt Blast 3, but the timing did not work out. So I have them now.
People here in Louisville use them to muddle the mint in the sugar for Mint Juleps, typically served non stop during the April to May Derby Party.
You can use them to muddle whatever you want. But it is a cool tool, with a pretty neat story behind it.
Contact me with your address if you want any, and I will send them to you as soon as I can. I am traveling this week, so it will likely be when I return.
Here is a picture of the pieces.

saluki2007

Need the details on this.

caliking

saluki2007 said:

Need the details on this.

Paging @BUFFALOMOOSE

he was quietly toiling away in the back corner putting these together. I munched on a good few of them myself. 

CTMike

Thanks to everyone for a fantastic weekend, especially those who volunteered to help feed sticks to Mortimer all night.

I'd also like to thank those anonymous (to me anyhow) folks who chipped in to help cover the gas to travel back home, that was an awesome gesture that was greatly appreciated. You folks are the best.

BUFFALOMOOSE

@saluki2007 those are pickled mild cherry peppers stuffed with ham capicola  salami and sharp provolone. Just cut the top off deseed as best as you can and stuff.  Labor intensive but easy peasy while double fisting bourbon  slushies, bloody marys and interjecting a beer or 2 in between.

Thank you to all the organizers, cooks and participants this weekend. It was a lot of fun and look forward to next year. Until then egg on!!!

northGAcock

Proof my buddy Brent cooks on his own without Nicole. It’s not an egg....but all I could find.

JohnInCarolina

northGAcock said:

Proof my buddy Brent cooks on his own without Nicole. It’s not an egg....but all I could find.

You need to remove the green around the borders from where Brent was standing in front of the screen.  Solid effort at deception though.

DMW

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

DMW said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Sat night after party in full swing - @caliking just chugged bourbon slushee right out of the bag.

I have video, but cell service will not support uploading and publishing to YoutYou.

I’ll wait. 

As promised:
https://youtu.be/rgMDboTatjA

GATraveller

Can't tell who's enjoying it more @Killit_and_Grillit or @caliking

tarheelmatt

That was awesome @DMW