MEATSTOCK Festival 2016

[Hogsy]

Calling all Aussie members!!! Come and say hello this weekend
The WKC BBQ Team Australia will be competing and displaying a huge amount of vintage kettles
It's not just a BBQ comp there will be a butchers comp, beard comp( for all the hipsters ), Live bands, craft beer, Bbq expo and Tuffy Stone will be doing a presentation as well as other guest speakers
The festival is in Sydney and it's looking like being a beautiful summers weekend
Hope to see some members there!
WKC REPRESENT!
http://www.meatstock.com.au

[Shoestringshop]

Have fun @Hogsy !Good luck from Melrose Park, IL

[Hogsy]

Thanks Dan. @Golly , @evsky , @Jocool and myself are pumped for this event. A big thanks to you,@zavod44, @reillyranch for you help in securing vintage weber gear for our stall

[Golly]

Super pumped
Just to get a place to make it the best

[Idahawk]

Hope you guys do awesome !


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[JDD]

This looks really cool, a music and meat festival! Good luck!

[Bob BQ]

Best of luck to you all, and can't wait to see the pics!!

[Hogsy]

Well what a weekend and what a festival!!! From Friday morning till Sunday night it was non stop action and fun. I'll set the scene a little...
50 teams competing in Sydney Olympic park over two days with 12,000  punters coming through the gates, a beautiful Sydney's summer weekend with temps up around 90f. Bands, Beer and BBQ!!! What more would you want?
We didn't get a result but Dayum!!! Did we have a good time. And so did Tuffy
Im still recovering so I'll let the photos and links tell the rest of the story
This is Tuffy Stone broadcasting live on national tv. He specifically requested to record it in front of our setup
http://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/other/barbeque-bonanza/vi-BBprMLL?coif=sf


Team WKC OZ with our butcher

And with Grand Champion Saffron from Bush Kitchen


The rest of the pics are of our setup and food



















Jocool's favourite dessert spot


Turn ins....we've still got some work to do but hey it's only our 2nd comp and we turned in all 6 dishes
We came 24th out of 50 and Golly got a 9th for his chicken which was our best result
Seafood


Chicken


Lamb


Pork ribs


Let me know if the vids or link don't work and I'll repost

Pork


Brisket

[Jocool]

What a weekend!

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[JDD]

I can only imagine!

[dazzo]

Turn in looks good!

Kettles are nice.

BUT, tell me about the kombi (or standard)

[Hogsy]

BUT, tell me about the kombi (or standard)

That's Dug, he's like our team mascot. And @evsky ride. 1955 split screen
Definitely a crowd pleaser. And probably gets more attention than our kettles at these events

[pbe gummi bear]

Great showing guys. Keep up the good work!

[MaxBobcat]

Super cool!  Those turn in boxes look great IMHO!

[vmile]

Outstanding effort Hogsy and Team Weber Kettle Club Australia, no wonder Tuffy insisted they use your display/comp area as his background.
I could not get to Meatstock, (Wife's Birthday) so thanks for the photos and video link- just like being there.

On that point, I have a confession to make.
At about 8.00am Sunday morning I checked Gumtree (Our Craigslist) to see if anything was new.

This was new.



Just been posted, $100, North West Sydney, and COPPER colour, We do not see Copper Kettles much in OZ.
But it was not an option for me as I was booked in for Wife's birthday lunch with the family. (if I went after that kettle my life would not have been worth living.....).
Anyway, 20 minutes later the add had changed.. it was now $80, but must be picked up today.

Very tempting, but I went to the Birthday lunch, with the thought that Hogsy or one of his crew will grab this one up.(they live on that side of Sydney)

Got back from a very nice lunch, late afternoon, only to find the add still up. I could not work out why it was still there. Then the penny dropped. Hogsy and his team would have been competing at Meatstock.
So a quick text to the vendor, still available (he had had some lowball offers??? I mean this thing is rare here), I told him it would take me a one hour drive to get there, he said no problems. On the way there all I could think of was that Hogsy and his team would have to virtually drive past where this grill was on their way home.

Got there,grill still there, nice vendor who apologised for not having cleaned it (It was pretty clean, you should see the Weber Summit Gold D6 I am restoring- yuck). Lived all its life under a cover, AA vent stamp, European spec 57cm One Touch Premium, so basically a Mastertouch with the older style ash catcher, and without the Gourmet Grate, black handles and warming rack. Perfect condition, except for about one inch of rim-rash on the lid. He had been working in Dubai and had purchased there, and was getting rid of it as he was moving from a house to an apartment.

So I did not get to go to Meatstock, but I did have a good weekend.

And seeing how well Hogsy and Team Weber Kettle Club Australia represented us all, I am feeling just a little bit guilty.




Well, just a tiny bit guilty..................