Red Dirt BBQ & Music Festival 2016

Line to get in

I have wanted to go to Red Dirt BBQ & Music Festival in Tyler for the last two years. My schedule and the timing never lined up. This year was the year. This is the festival's third year, and I was super excited. I came up a day early and dropped my wife in Dallas to see her friend. It gave me a chance to tour some of the best that East Texas BBQ has to offer. It was rainy in the morning before the event, but the clouds broke just in time. I took a ton of photos at the festival. Enjoy!

BBQ on the Brazos (Cresson)

Brisket and sausage

Bet the House BBQ (Denton)

Brisket, turkey, pulled pork/mac and cheese egg rolls, and brisket/coleslaw egg rolls

Black's Barbecue (Lockhart)

Brisket and baby back pork rib

Bodacious Bar-B-Q (Longview- Mobberly)

Brisket. They also brought house-made sausage.

Buzzie's Bar-B-Q (Kerrville)

Brisket, sausage, and baby back pork rib

Country Tavern (Kilgore)

Baby back pork rib and sausages

Freedmen's Bar (Austin)

Chris McGhee applying Big Red glaze

The color on those...

Big Red baby back pork ribs

Big Red baby back pork rib and brisket boudin sausage

Heim Barbecue (Fort Worth)

Bacon burnt ends

Smoked wings with 3 different sauces- BBQ, honey chipotle, and Alabama white

Wing, sausage, and bacon burnt ends

Emma and Travis Heim

Hutchins BBQ (McKinney)


Brisket and sausage

Kreuz Market (Lockhart + Bryan)

Sausage and pickles

Lockhart Smokehouse (Dallas + Plano)

Marcos Oglesby of Schmidt showing off Lockhart's tomahawk bone-in prime rib

Tomahawk bone-in prime rib

Louie Mueller Barbecue (Taylor)

Beef rib

Meat Church (Waxahachie)

Beef ribs

Brisket sliders. He also brought pulled pork tacos.

Burnt ends

Micklethwait Craft Meats (Austin)

Brisket!

Brisket and pork belly andouille

Miller's Smokehouse (Belton)

Tri-tip being sliced

Tri-tip

Tri-tip, turkey, and jalapeño cheese sausage

Roegels Barbecue Co. (Houston)

Pastrami

Rueben

Pork Belly

The Roegels and crew

Schmidt Family Barbecue (Bee Cave)

Brisket and ribs on the smoker

Brisket and ribs

The Slow Bone (Dallas)

Brisket, pimento cheese, and chimichurri

Stanley's Famous Pit Bar-B-Q (Tyler)

Brisket, baby back pork rib, and sausage

Stiles Switch BBQ & Brew (Austin)

Sausage on the smoker

Beef ribs!

Leftover beef ribs bones

Pitmaster Lance Kirkpatrick

Good music, good barbecue. What could be a better combination? I had a blast. I was sad to leave the event early. I had to meet the wife in DFW. Next year, I will take her, and we are going to party it up into the night. Get your tickets for next year when they go on sale. If not, you will miss out. It is a world-class event. Everything was extremely organized and well-planned. Props to Chase Colston and crew and the City of Tyler for putting this on. Next week, I will be at the Houston BBQ Festival.

Where BBQ meets music

Bri Bagwell on the Main stage

TJ Hammersly and Friends on the Stanley’s Famous Pit BBQ stage

Until next time, happy smoking...