HoppyPete - CraftBeer Adventure

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Texas BBQ

While we lived in Waco, Texas, back in 1983, our friends, Tom & Gloria, used to cook us real Texas BBQ. This was well before the Texas BBQ revolution.

There are many different ways to cook great Texas BBQ, dry rubbed or slow cooking a well marinated piece of meat. I love both ways

The method we remember from our days in Texas is to marinate the meat and slow cook.

Recipe

Use approx 5kg of beef brisket, or fresh silverside. Ask to butcher to remove most of the fat
1 bottle of Terriyaki sauce
1 bottle of hickory flavour BBQ sauce (we used Bulls eye sauce)
1 jar jalapeños
12 large mushrooms (sliced)
2 large onions (sliced)
6-8 tomatoes (sliced)

Method

Wrap the meat in 3 layers of foil
Before sealing the foil add 1/2 bottle of Terriyaki Sauce, 1/4 bottle of Smoky BBQ sauce, 1/2 bottle of jalapeños, the mushrooms, tomatoes & onion.
Seal well in foil.
Put in baking dish and slow cook (150 degrees C) for 4 hours - or better still, in a covered BBQ or pizza oven

After 4 hours, open the foil and slice the meat into approx 1 inch slices (don't cut all the way through the meat). Open these pockets and fill with 1/2 bottle of the Smoky BBQ sauce and push in the cooked mushroom, onion, jalapeño and tomato mixture.Baste with the juices of the BBQ

Cook open for another hour, basting regularly

Note -

This Melbourne store has great ingredients to help make this a smoky, tasty Texas BBQ
USA Foods Outlet Store
67-73 Cochranes Rd.
Moorabbin, Victoria
Australia 3189
http://www.usafoods.com.au/Sauces-and-Spices/BBQ-Sauces-Marinades

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

AIBA - Australian International Beer Awards

Work as a steward at the 2014 AIBA Awards

Set-up

Receipting and storing the over 1500 different beers entered into the AIBA Awards 2014, took over two weeks.

Lots of lifting, unpacking and sorting of so many wonderful and interesting beers.

Beers were catalogued and put into chilled reefers/fridges - in class order

Kegs are also received and sorted into daily tasting order

Beers arrive on pallets to be sorted & unpacked.

Kegs are sorted into serving day order

After unpacking, beers are refrigerated in class order

Fridges inside the steward area are set-up

Final days of set-up for the awards

The room and tables are setup

Mike's birthday celebration

The Award Judging - 1 week

Post judging BBQ. Awards for "Golden Tray"

The pack down/ bump out

Another week was spent cleaning up after the event.
Finally - Beers packed for exhibitor tasting event, AIBA Awards Dinner and a consumer tasting
Reward boxes packed.
That's it for another year.
Let the muscles relax and have a beer!