PIT MASTERS UNITE
Today the PA BBQ Fest
closes at the Jim Dietrich Park in Muhlenberg, Pennsylvania. The address is
listed as 4899 Stoudt’s Ferry Road, Reading.
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| PA BBQ FEST |
We went Saturday, not
really expecting much, but it proved to be a fun day.
It’s free, with a $5.00
donation for parking. You can buy a sample booklet for $10.00 which gives you
four choices of the 12 different pit masters that serve up their version of brisket,
pulled pork and chicken. We pre purchased two and that was enough food for us. They were selling sample booklets at the event.
There weren't a lot of picnic tables to eat your BBQ, so the foraging was fine for us, although we did see someone looking medieval walking around with a
massive smoked turkey leg.
Sadly, there’s only one
beer tent, but there are several area distilleries represented and a stand for
margaritas. There are plenty of artists selling things too and a lot of purveyors
of hot sauces.
The path for the
vendors has shady for the most part and the weather was not a factor and the meandering
Schuylkill River with occasional tubers provided a nice background for the music
stage where various singer songwriters and blue grass bands entertained people
in lawn chairs.
There’s a kid zone play
area and plenty of people were walking their dogs.
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| Nazareth, PA |
The sample cards were
enough for us, but we bought a platter to take home with us. Many of the pit master rigs were mobile, some were catering trucks with a smoker in tow, but there were a number
of brick and mortar shops at the festival. One is Backwood Brothers who have a
place in Hamburg, PA. They are one of the first pits. Get there early, their smoked
sausage sample went quick.
The festival opens
today at 11 and runs until 7 tonight
We found this event on Facebook events.
Thanks for reading.
© 2021 by Greg Dunaj.
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