BBQ European championships 2017

Bremen, Germany. 17-18 September

European Grill & Barbecue championships.

BBQ Blues grill and Barbecue team competed in the recent European championships in Bremen, a top placing was our goal, top 10 on our low budget without any major sponsors.

BBQ blues team Jonas, Bobo och yours truly with the green hat

Brisket & chicken

Beef brisket

even after 16 hours in the smoker and on the grill our brisket tightened up and was a little tough, this was reflected by the judges points. Twenty points after the winning brisket not really the result we were focusing on stable even top scores was our goal.

Take away chicken

Our chicken presentation in these hopeless small take away boxes, at least every one else har the same problem, smoked chicken thigh, filled chicken wing, parsley and lovage filled chicken breast, and smoked drumstick.

A fifth place overall with better points.

Chicken and side dish

Dessert from the Barbecue

BBQ desserts

Grilled pear on grilled almond frangipane cake, served with pear brandy flavoured mascarpone, a pear chip and smoked almond caramel tuille, raspberry sauce. a great dessert worthy of a very good restaurant, good flavourful combinations the judges thought so as well giving us a fourth place overall with top points in a closely fought mini final.

Dessert

compulsory fish dish

Seafood BBQ

Salmon again, it seams like its salmon at every championship, we did a salmon fillet with crispy skin, filled with cream cheese, a smoked plait of salmon and an oriental flavoured salmon tartare, the vegetable garnish of grilled zucchini asparagus aubergine and tomato.

The judges loved our salmon with a clear first place with a good point margin in a close final, this is our first championship victory, not bad European champions.

Fish and side dish

Home fare

Traditional BBQ cooking

Our home cooking presentation was representative to Sweden, whole grilled rein deer loin with lingon berries, slow grilled shallot, cepes mushrooms and grilled corn pudding.

We received a 14 place for the effort in a tight finish.

Home country cooking

Pork

BBQ pork dishes

pork shoulder

Our pork shoulder smoked and BBQ'd for about 12 hours served with some pulled pork, burnt ends and crackling no sauce or garnish is allowed except whats in the vegetable box in this case the lettuce. We received a 20th place and lost a few points to the leaders.

Pork ribs

Pork ribs have always been a bit of a weak scoring area for us we made some changes for this competition trying to give more textbook BBQ ribs rather than offering ribs that suited our tastes, we came in in ninth place in a tight finish so we were pleased with the changes we made.

Pork Shoulder with crackling.

Equipment

BBQ Scout

When I said we had no sponsors, that wasn't really correct BBQ Scout in Germany Lent us our grills and equipment, we were extremely grateful for the loan of these fantastic grills.

Overall we came in in fourth place, we were a couple of points after a podium third place finish, a great job showing that consistency is the winner in this type of competition.

our trusty BBQ scout