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Results for Ribs on the Ridge, Haines City, FL

Posted: February 28, 2012 in BBQ, BBQ News
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My team and I had the privilege to compete in this great event, Ribs on the Ridge in Haines City, FL. This is the second year for Hogs Gone Wild BBQ to compete here, last year we got RGC out of 43 teams, in the backyard division. The only thing better then the beautiful venue, is the incredible staff that organized this event, thank you all!!!! Of course, the FBA reps. have done their usual terrific job, thank you all!!!

Of course we have to start off with the GRAND CHAMPIONS, and for this event it was:

UNKNOWN BBQ!!!!

We are all very proud of these guys!!! Great job to the whole team!!!!

The Reserve Grand Champion is:

EVERGLADES SEASONING BBQ TEAM!!!

Jimmy Brod, and his team, has been having a great year, these guys know how to cook!!! If you want to learn how to cook like Jimmy, check out his school that is coming up on May 4-6, 2012 Everglades BBQ Bash, School & Contest – Camp Mack – Lake Wales, FL. email Jimmy at: brodman@strato.net for information.

HGWBBQ had a good cook, we finished 12th overall, out of 44 Pro teams. We got 11th in chicken, 33rd in ribs (Nightmare table), 8th in pork, & 3rd in Brisket!!! Not a bad day.

HGWTaking "The Walk"!!!!

HGW getting our 3rd place Brisket award.

Now for the results, Please make sure you take a look at the backyard results as well, this is a very competitive event, both in Pro and Backyard!!!

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2012 Ribs On The Ridge

February 24-25, 2012 2012 Ribs On The Ridge – Haines City, FL
City of Haines City – Parks & Recreation Department – 555 Ledwith Avenue – Haines City, FL 33844
(863)-421-3700 or click to Email		 Ida Isaacs
Leon Isaacs
Wendy Wolfe
Chuck Ray
Donna Ray
Cheryl Fishel
Pro Division

Grand Champion: Unknown BBQ
Reserve: Everglades Seasoning BBQ Team
Rank Team Total Chicken Ribs Pork Brisket
1 Unknown BBQ 769.91666 193.6333 193.7833 188.6333 193.8667
2 Everglades Seasoning BBQ Team 767.33331 192.2167 188.8500 189.5833 196.6833
3 Pop’s Q 755.96667 188.6333 191.9667 189.6167 185.7500
4 Hot Wachula’s 755.33332 183.4667 190.9667 188.9000 192.0000
5 Smoke Life BBQ 749.86666 186.7833 191.7333 182.4500 188.9000
6 Sweet Smoke Q 749.43333 186.0667 186.3000 193.8500 183.2167
7 Boca BBQ 749.28334 190.5167 187.6667 194.5500 176.5500
8 Big Papa’s Country Kitchen 748.61666 190.8167 180.6333 191.2667 185.9000
9 Confederate Smoke 747.26666 185.2667 190.7000 193.1333 178.1667
10 Getta Grip BBQ 744.68334 186.7833 190.9667 184.2000 182.7333
11 Git-R-Smoked 743.11668 192.6833 170.1333 191.9167 188.3833
12 Hogs Gone Wild BBQ 741.76664 188.4000 170.6333 190.5333 192.2000
13 Blitzkrieg BBQ 740.81666 181.9833 182.7333 191.4667 184.6333
14 Big Tymers BBQ 739.90000 186.2667 188.3833 187.0167 178.2333
15 J & J Bar-B-Que 737.60000 193.3667 184.3167 175.5500 184.3667
16 Saucy Swine-O’s 737.38334 189.1167 182.1833 181.8000 184.2833
17 Pharter Starter’s BBQ Team 731.00002 178.9333 186.4500 182.1833 183.4333
18 Florida Skin-n-Bones 728.23330 188.1667 181.6167 173.8500 184.6000
19 Divine Swine BBQ Team 726.40000 175.4000 187.6500 181.5333 181.8167
20 Fully Involved 723.90000 182.9000 158.7667 193.1500 189.0833
21 Two Crackers Cooking 720.93334 182.0333 183.2000 174.1833 181.5167
22 Willingham’s BBQ 719.08332 191.2000 174.3667 180.0500 173.4667
23 Kick Yo Butt 718.58333 176.3333 185.0500 172.7833 184.4167
24 Oink 2 Tail 716.53335 181.3167 168.6500 183.8833 182.6833
25 All Racked Up 715.53335 186.0000 179.1500 178.3500 172.0333
26 Swamp Water Boys 715.16665 184.7166 173.2500 169.2833 187.9167
27 Palm Beach Porkers 714.33334 187.3833 165.6833 182.9333 178.3333
28 United Pork Smokers 714.18335 181.7667 172.5000 181.4834 178.4333
29 Hog Jims 713.93333 188.1667 166.4167 185.7833 173.5667
30 Great Lakes BBQ Feed Company 713.05000 183.8333 181.2500 181.0667 166.9000
31 Bar-B-Que This 712.11665 181.5667 163.6667 184.8833 182.0000
32 Smokin’ Stuff 710.33332 176.7833 170.3667 180.5333 182.6500
33 Shanty Town 708.61667 183.6167 155.0833 188.2000 181.7167
34 Bubba’s BBQ Shack 706.76666 178.3500 180.5500 172.7000 175.1667
35 2 Cubans & a Redneck 705.46667 167.6000 181.3833 177.4500 179.0333
36 Second Star BBQ 698.16668 171.7500 178.4333 181.3000 166.6833
37 Attaboy BBQ 696.35000 189.8333 171.7667 169.6667 165.0833
38 Swineos 693.68332 157.4833 176.5167 178.6667 181.0167
39 Too Tall’s Cook Shack 693.43335 171.2167 175.8000 172.9167 173.5000
40 King’s Burgers & BBQ 684.76667 170.6500 176.6333 162.0500 175.4333
41 Rats Fine Swine 670.49998 166.9333 183.2500 175.1333 145.1833
42 Chubby’s BBQ 666.18333 169.8333 163.6000 169.6000 163.1500
43 Critter Smokin’ Crackers 656.25001 176.6833 169.7333 156.5667 153.2667
44 Smoke Shack BBQ 339.26668 180.0000 159.2667 0.0000 0.0000
Chicken

Rank Team Score
1 Unknown BBQ 193.63333
2 J & J Bar-B-Que 193.36667
3 Git-R-Smoked 192.68333
4 Everglades Seasoning BBQ Team 192.21667
5 Willingham’s BBQ 191.19999
6 Big Papa’s Country Kitchen 190.81665
7 Boca BBQ 190.51668
8 Attaboy BBQ 189.83334
9 Saucy Swine-O’s 189.11667
10 Pop’s Q 188.63334
Ribs

Rank Team Score
1 Unknown BBQ 193.78333
2 Pop’s Q 191.96666
3 Smoke Life BBQ 191.73333
4 [Tie] Getta Grip BBQ 190.96666
4 [Tie] Hot Wachula’s 190.96666
6 Confederate Smoke 190.70000
7 Everglades Seasoning BBQ Team 188.85000
8 Big Tymers BBQ 188.38333
9 Boca BBQ 187.66667
10 Divine Swine BBQ Team 187.65000
Pork

Rank Team Score
1 Boca BBQ 194.55000
2 Sweet Smoke Q 193.85000
3 Fully Involved 193.15000
4 Confederate Smoke 193.13333
5 Git-R-Smoked 191.91667
6 Blitzkrieg BBQ 191.46666
7 Big Papa’s Country Kitchen 191.26666
8 Hogs Gone Wild BBQ 190.53332
9 Pop’s Q 189.61667
10 Everglades Seasoning BBQ Team 189.58332
Brisket

Rank Team Score
1 Everglades Seasoning BBQ Team 196.68332
2 Unknown BBQ 193.86666
3 Hogs Gone Wild BBQ 192.19999
4 Hot Wachula’s 191.99999
5 Fully Involved 189.08333
6 Smoke Life BBQ 188.89999
7 Git-R-Smoked 188.38334
8 Swamp Water Boys 187.91666
9 Big Papa’s Country Kitchen 185.90002
10 Pop’s Q 185.75000
Backyard

Backyard Grand Champion: Team Low Rent
Backyard Reserve: Beach Neck BBQ
Rank Team Total Chicken Ribs Pork Brisket
1 Team Low Rent 733.86665 185.7500 182.1167 175.2333 190.7667
2 Beach Neck BBQ 731.56667 182.6833 183.4167 179.6000 185.8667
3 Big Belly’s Butt Rubbin BBQ 726.58333 181.1833 185.2500 184.0833 176.0667
4 Ja Makin me Hungry 723.19999 183.3000 188.6167 183.3667 167.9167
5 Newman BBQ 722.11668 168.5000 186.7333 187.2000 179.6833
6 2nd Hand Smoke 720.48332 190.6833 193.4167 168.1500 168.2333
7 Rub Me Tender 720.04998 186.0000 186.0000 175.0833 172.9667
8 Buttweiser 719.35000 180.9000 173.8167 184.3500 180.2833
9 Birds & Bones 719.13332 179.6167 179.3667 184.5167 175.6333
10 Smokin J’s BBQ 713.96667 176.3000 182.5667 187.3667 167.7333
11 Fired N Wired 708.76667 168.5000 179.8667 181.3333 179.0667
12 Hog Life BBQ 707.64999 183.6000 172.0000 175.3000 176.7500
13 Who’s Cooking BBQ 702.04998 182.6333 168.1833 183.3500 167.8833
14 Bettern Store Bot 699.06667 167.4833 183.8333 175.3000 172.4500
15 Lawhorn’s Signature Seasonings 698.44999 172.1500 178.8167 173.4167 174.0667
16 Grilling For The Master 697.13333 178.5167 179.7000 171.8833 167.0333
17 The Moss Pit 696.96668 189.5667 175.8167 163.7833 167.8000
18 Smokin L’s BBQ 695.61668 173.4167 184.3333 174.3167 163.5500
19 Southern Bred BBQ 691.74998 166.6667 176.0667 173.4167 175.6000
20 Hot Ashes 691.51665 174.1667 160.1833 181.7000 175.4667
21 Otta’s Ole 40-4 BBQ 690.58333 180.2667 163.4167 173.8500 173.0500
22 Back Country BBQ 690.55002 183.4167 180.0833 161.3167 165.7333
23 Rub My Belly 689.28333 174.1333 176.2500 174.3167 164.5833
24 Granny’s Nutz 689.18332 181.9000 170.2500 178.7000 158.3333
25 Staggs BBQ 686.63333 183.9167 167.6500 177.1667 157.9000
26 Bamboo Warrior 685.78331 167.9667 171.3167 174.7500 171.7500
27 Parrothead Porkers 679.96669 177.0167 159.9667 174.5000 168.4833
28 Look-A-here BBQ 674.44999 161.7333 184.0333 165.9000 162.7833
29 Quickdraws Smokin Q 673.36669 167.2167 171.2333 169.3833 165.5333
30 Evans Ranch 671.18333 179.1166 169.6833 162.6667 159.7167
31 Aw Da B Smokin 664.95000 181.0333 160.1333 149.9667 173.8167
32 Ring of Fire 658.33333 173.2833 145.1167 163.1833 176.7500
33 Backyard Bubba Q 642.21667 178.1167 160.7833 149.5500 153.7667
34 Triple R BBQ 610.78333 146.5167 133.6000 159.4333 171.2333
35 Pee Paws Good Ole BBQ 491.83334 0.0000 175.0833 154.7500 162.0000
36 Just smokin 452.79999 159.3833 147.4667 145.9500 0.0000
37 J & S Smoking 354.91666 0.0000 179.6333 175.2833 0.0000
38 After Ours BBQ 340.70000 0.0000 173.5833 167.1167 0.0000
39 Uncle Johnny’s Smoke 161.21667 0.0000 161.2167 0.0000 0.0000
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HGW, makes ABC Action News, w/ Celebrity Grill.

Posted: February 21, 2012 in BBQ, BBQ Cooking Techniques, BBQ News
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Please check out this short news clip featuring JM from Celebrity Grill. This is the short version, the series on cooking chicken wings will be out soon. JM was nice enough to wear our HGWBBQ, t-shirt for this video.

How to cook the perfect chicken wing.

Please take a look.

 

 

Results for the first Sam’s Club competition for 2012 (Tampa)

Posted: February 19, 2012 in BBQ, BBQ News
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This years Sam’s Club has already kicked off, first stop was in Tampa, FL. There were only 20 teams competing in this competition, but they were many of the top teams from the Tampa region there.

If you are not familiar with how the Sam’s club events work, it is an elimination competition, in this case, 20 teams signed up to compete, here in Tampa, FL, but only the top 6 overall, will get to move on to compete in the regional in Madison, TN on Sept. 22, 2012. There are 5 regions across the country, each region has 5 qualifier cook offs within that region, (like the one here in Tampa).  The top ten teams from the regional cook off with go head-to-head at the Sam’s Club National BBQ Championship. This year’s championship is being held in, Bentonville, AR. on Oct. 13, 2012.

The Grand Champion for the Tampa cook off was: Good Buddies BBQ. Joel Vann and his team, are out of Lakeland, FL, Congratulations Good Buddies BBQ!!!!

Good Buddies BBQ GC Tampa Sam's Club

Congratulations to Matt Barber, from Hot Wachulas, RGC at this event!!!!

Dr. BBQ, Ray Lampe took 3rd over all.

Ray Lampe "Dr. BBQ" & Myself, @ Pigfest 2010

A strong fourth place finish goes to HGW friend, Big Papa’s Country Kitchen, Dana Hillis. Dana, qualified for the Sam’s Club, National, last year, and it looks like he is off to a good start this year as well. Just a side note, Dana and team, has been tearing up the FBA in 2012, competing in only 4 FBA events so far this year and have earned 2 GC and 2 RGC. Great job Dana!!!

Fifth place goes to another, strong FBA and KCBS competitor, Jimmy Brod of Everglades Seasoning BBQ. Jimmy is always in the mix at a BBQ competition, and stands behind the great products he uses from, Everglades Seasoning check those guys out, for sure!!!

Jimmy Brod's supply of Everglades Seasonings at the ready.

Rounding out the top six qualifiers is Ford Alison, from Great Lakes BBQ & Feed Co. Ford has been around this game for sometime now, and he always has hand in the out come of an event. Super nice guy, and I am very happy to see Ford qualify for the next round.

 

Congratulations to all teams who competed, here are all the results:

Grand Champion: Good Buddies BBQ
Reserve Champion: Hot Wachulas

Overall:
1. Good Buddies BBQ – 684.5710
2. Hot Wachulas – 671.9998
3. Dr, BBQ – 671.4284
4. Big Papa’s Country Kitch – 669.7140
5. Everglades Seasoning BBQ – 669.7138
6. Great Lakes BBQ & Feed C – 666.2854
7. Git-R-Smoked – 665.1428
8. Florida’s Divine Swine – 658.2858
9. All FiredUp & Kicking As – 657.1422
10. Naked Bones – 655.4284
11. Southern Style BBQ – 651.9998
12. Whiskey Bent BBQ – 647.4286
13. Kathleen Roadkill – 642.8570
14. Accutech BBQ – 642.2852
15. Sweet Smoke Q – 641.7144
16. Bamboo Warrior – 638.8568
17. Big Tymer BBQ – 638.8566
18. Team Holy Hog BBQ – 638.2852
19. Getta Grip BBQ – 636.5716
20. Sun State Smokers – 623.4282

Chicken:
1. Good Buddies BBQ – 177.7142
2. Hot Wachulas – 176.5714
3. Big Papa’s Country Kitch – 176.0000
4. Dr, BBQ – 174.2856
5. Everglades Seasoning BBQ – 173.1428
6. Team Holy Hog BBQ – 170.8572
7. Bamboo Warrior – 170.8572
8. Git-R-Smoked – 168.5714
9. All FiredUp & Kicking As – 166.2856
10. Accutech BBQ – 165.1426
11. Great Lakes BBQ & Feed C – 163.9998
12. Kathleen Roadkill – 163.9998
13. Whiskey Bent BBQ – 162.2856
14. Florida’s Divine Swine – 161.1426
15. Southern Style BBQ – 160.5712
16. Sun State Smokers – 159.4286
17. Getta Grip BBQ – 159.4286
18. Naked Bones – 156.5712
19. Sweet Smoke Q – 151.4288
20. Big Tymer BBQ – 148.5714

Ribs:
1. Florida’s Divine Swine – 170.8576
2. Everglades Seasoning BBQ – 170.2854
3. Sweet Smoke Q – 168.0002
4. Git-R-Smoked – 166.8572
5. Good Buddies BBQ – 166.8572
6. Naked Bones – 165.1430
7. Great Lakes BBQ & Feed C – 164.0000
8. Kathleen Roadkill – 164.0000
9. Dr, BBQ – 163.9998
10. Accutech BBQ – 161.7142
11. Bamboo Warrior – 161.1428
12. Whiskey Bent BBQ – 160.0002
13. Getta Grip BBQ – 160.0000
14. Team Holy Hog BBQ – 160.0000
15. Southern Style BBQ – 158.2856
16. Hot Wachulas – 158.2856
17. Big Papa’s Country Kitch – 156.5714
18. Big Tymer BBQ – 155.9998
19. All FiredUp & Kicking As – 151.9998
20. Sun State Smokers – 131.9998

Pork:
1. Sun State Smokers – 174.8572
2. Great Lakes BBQ & Feed C – 174.2856
3. All FiredUp & Kicking As – 171.9998
4. Dr, BBQ – 170.8572
5. Everglades Seasoning BBQ – 169.7142
6. Hot Wachulas – 169.7142
7. Florida’s Divine Swine – 168.5716
8. Southern Style BBQ – 166.8570
9. Big Papa’s Country Kitch – 166.8570
10. Bamboo Warrior – 165.1426
11. Sweet Smoke Q – 164.5712
12. Good Buddies BBQ – 164.5710
13. Accutech BBQ – 162.2858
14. Naked Bones – 162.2856
15. Git-R-Smoked – 159.9998
16. Big Tymer BBQ – 157.7140
17. Kathleen Roadkill – 157.1428
18. Whiskey Bent BBQ – 153.1428
19. Getta Grip BBQ – 148.0000
20. Team Holy Hog BBQ – 138.8568

Brisket:
1. Big Tymer BBQ – 176.5714
2. Good Buddies BBQ – 175.4286
3. Whiskey Bent BBQ – 172.0000
4. Naked Bones – 171.4286
5. Big Papa’s Country Kitch – 170.2856
6. Git-R-Smoked – 169.7144
7. Getta Grip BBQ – 169.1430
8. Team Holy Hog BBQ – 168.5712
9. Hot Wachulas – 167.4286
10. All FiredUp & Kicking As – 166.8570
11. Southern Style BBQ – 166.2860
12. Great Lakes BBQ & Feed C – 164.0000
13. Dr, BBQ – 162.2858
14. Kathleen Roadkill – 157.7144
15. Sweet Smoke Q – 157.7142
16. Florida’s Divine Swine – 157.7140
17. Sun State Smokers – 157.1426
18. Everglades Seasoning BBQ – 156.5714
19. Accutech BBQ – 153.1426
20. Bamboo Warrior – 141.7142

Celebrity Grill Giveaway, you don’t want to miss this one!!!

Posted: February 18, 2012 in BBQ, BBQ Cooking Techniques, BBQ News
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I have know JM, Jonathan Martinez, Producer/Host, of  Celebrity Grill for about one year now. JM is one person who has, always impressed me with his knowledge around the grill, and his desire to continue to expand his knowledge of the grilling world.

JM has recently produced another one of his grill videos, this one was about chicken wings, this video is currently still being edited, but I can not wait to check it out. I was privileged to be a guest in JM’s first video challenge, Please be sure to check out all four videos.

JM has one of the best grilling web-sites out there, period!!! His site is full of all types of grilling information, and resources. I refer to it often, and learn something new each time. Celebritygrillshow.com

Now if that is not reason enough you check out JM, and all he has to offer the grilling world, how about some great giveaways? This guy is mad, how can he do it? He is offering the BEST giveaways, right now, on both Facebook & Twitter. It is very easy to sign up for both, don’t worry, he won’t be hounding you with spam after you sign up, and if you don’t win the giveaway, you still come out on top, by learning about some new grilling supplies. His current giveaway on Facebook is worth $323 & his Twitter giveaway is worth $225.

Please click here to learn how to easily enter both of these giveaways, Celebrity Grill Giveaway.

Good Luck!!!!

Rib Practice

Posted: February 13, 2012 in BBQ, BBQ Cooking Techniques
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Doing a follow up on Practice cooks, are they necessary?

Yes, doing more practice today, ribs were on the schedule, and believe me, it was time for a ribs practice.  We took a beating at our last competition on our ribs, finishing 60th out of 73 teams. Normally ribs are our go to category, we made some changes and got away from what has worked for us, in the past. Sometimes that can be a big mistake. So it was time to get back to the test kitchen, and really see what was going on with our ribs.

This was our turn-in at our last competition, really lacking color.

I was really not pleased with our ribs the last few times out, so we knew we had to test things out. So we gathered a few tasters, which funny enough, after doing BBQ for a couple of years, willing tasters are hard to come by. It use to be easy to find some folks, usually those who live with you, to try out your BBQ, but now, every time I have a BBQ event planned everyone mysteriously has to go to work, visit a sick friend or just leave town.  So today I had to go outside of the house to get my tasters, and that worked out well.

Couple of nice racks!!!

I always try to run as close to the same quality products, and times, that I would use at the competition. I like to try a couple different recipes, and do a comparison.

Ribs getting happy before going on the smoker.

Today, I did a couple completely new recipes and used our normal recipe, with just a small variation. I did learn a couple things, the main thing was that were closer to being on the right path, then we thought. The ribs that we used our normal recipe, with one important change, was the hands down favorite.

I am very glad we did this practice cook, I thought we would be going with a completely new recipe, after the disappointments from our last couple of rib cooks, but the “new” recipe was a greater disappointment. To have just gone out to a competition and use a new rib recipe without testing it first, would be a huge roll of the dice. It is easier on the pocket, and the pride, do put out a little extra for a small practice cook, then to put out the cost of the meat, and the full expenses for the competition, on a gamble. So, make some friends happy, and practice, practice, practice.

Pulled Pork Nachos

Posted: February 5, 2012 in BBQ, Uncategorized
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I know there are a lot of folks out there cooking pork for the Super Bowl, and wondering, “how many ways can I serve all this pork?’ This is a quick, easy and affordable way for your friends and family to enjoy your pork. If you don’t get to this one on game day, but have left over pork, this is a great way to enjoy that pork all year long. I published this quick and easy recipe on Huck’s Hut http://www.HucksHut.com,  last summer, and many folks have written to me since, letting me know that, they never thought of using their pork in this way, but that they are very happy with the ease, and the outcome of this dish for them. There are a few add-ons to this recipe you could have fun with, such as adding sour cream, jalapenos, salsa or all the above, there are endless possibilities. Have fun with it.

January 2011, we competed in the KCBS, Lakeland, FL Pigfest. Funny thing vending, your cooking for 1000′s of folks, but, if your like me, you don’t even get a bite. That is what happened for my family at PigFest. We served our BBQ Nachos, and they were a BIG hit. We sold out, Friday and had to go get more supplies from the store early Saturday, and sold all of it that day. Folks told us, they came all the way across the park, just for our Nachos. This week my family and I were discussing the PigFest, and realized none of us had even tried the Nachos, friends had all tried them, and told us they were good, I just went on their word, and man were they right! Of course, with all this practicing, we had pulled pork in the freezer, so it was an easy fix.

This is  a very simple recipe, but I was very pleased with the flavor.

First I start with some Hogs Gone Wild BBQ Pulled Pork.

HGW Pulled Pork

After that the ingredients are very simple, Corn Chips, Nacho Cheese & BBQ Sauce. We used our house sauce, HGW “Sweet with some Heat”, we found the sweet and a hint of spice, is a nice contrast to the cheese and corn chips.

Simply construct you nachos, we started with the chips, added the cheese, then the pork and finally the BBQ sauce.

BBQ Nachos, very tasty!!!

Nothing better then sharing Nachos with great friends and family, and the beverage of choice of accompany this tasty treat is…..Ice Cold Beer……..surprise!!!

Enjoy!!!