Optimus Swine 757

23/06/2024

Cooking bbq on the National Mall. Bucket list stuff here.

22/06/2024

Here we go. Roseda Farm, Bachan's, Turkey Federation , Smithfield, 32nd Annual Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle, Perdue AgriBusiness, Impossible Foods, National Pork Board and the .S. Soy threw a bunch of prizes down for a total of 10 contest entries over the next 24 hours. We’ll cook a bunch of crazy stuff, take some photos and share later. But for now, Jason and I are in the lab with a pen and a pad trying to get this damn label off!

28/05/2024

Come and get one!!!

20/05/2024

Boom Pow!

This weekend took Ham Squad and I to what I consider, the backbone of Carolina Barbecue. Ayden NC. Kings of Q BBQ Cook off 7th annual BBQ Cook-off gets one of the best in the trophy business Ed’s Shape Shack, and this dude has loaded us up with tons of cutting board space for our next chop! Accompanied with these super sharp cleavers, just ask David Dick.

Jason is pulling things back together at the smokehouse as we’re getting really busy there, and it’s hard to do it all from the road. Especially hard on the staff, that does more than we can ask, to keep up with a very busy time. Thank you to them for working so hard and keeping the community taken care of! 🙏

So the results right?!
Ham Squad BBQ/ Optimus Swine 757 fusion cook, we call it Optimus Squad….

🥉Springer Mountain Farms 🐔
🥇Prairie Fresh 🍖
🥈Prairie fresh 🐷
6th place Mister Brisket, Inc. 🐮

Whhhooooooo!!!!

GRAND CHAMPS!!!!

Huge congrats to my boy Brian Corbett pulling down a Reserve for Smokin Skullies BBQ!!!

Thanks to Steve, Sam Jones, Bum’s Restaurant and of course the Skylight Inn for delicious food while we were in town. Damn the food there is good! Can’t wait for next year to come back and do the double event with Whole Hog!!!

Heath Riles BBQ
Outlaw BBQ Smokers

19/05/2024

What you need….is a Heath Riles Brisket Combo, and a Mister Brisket, Inc. trimmed imperial, and Outlaw BBQ Smokers…maybe a blender and a syringe…And she’s aaaaaall yours!

Shootin' The Que - Heath Riles BBQ

13/05/2024

Two weeks away!

08/05/2024

Put Revolutionary BBQ Brawl on your calendars for 2025. New venue. Same town!

05/05/2024

So happy for our brothers for killing it yesterday!
We managed a 7th place Brisket and heard some of our friends get some awesome calls, and big money flying around down here!!

Here’s to today, lots of rain overnight. Maybe it washed away my bad juju!!! Best of luck to all the teams cooking today!
Jiggy with the Piggy BBQ Challenge

30/04/2024

Y’all didn’t know!

30/04/2024

30/04/2024

Roll Out!!!
We went to Southaven, Mississippi to the 44th Annual Springfest to bring a W!

Great Protein, great products and a little bit of LUCK 🍀 carried us the half point we needed to take the Mississippi State Championship.

While in Heath Riles BBQ’s neighborhood, they were nice enough to let us sit in on a podcast where we really talk about the full spectrum of the Optimus Swine and Two Drummer’s brands!

Great time. Thank you again to Candace and Heath for sharing the stage. Enjoy the show!

Brothers and Springfest Grand Champions Jon and Jason Wade of Optimus Swine 757 join us on this week's episode of the Shootin' The Que Podcast! 🏆

- Two Drummers Smokehouse
- Rock 'N Roll
- KCBS vs MBN + more!

Watch - https://youtu.be/ZSFhJt_QGDM
Listen - https://shootintheque.podbean.com/

29/04/2024

Welp. We’re glad we braved the 14 hour drive, and made our debut in Mississippi at the 44th Annual Southaven Springfest 2024, and WE WON THAT SUCKER!!!

We, along with a large cast of great teams rolled up on Springfest to represent at this Heath Riles BBQ hometown competition.
Heath and the team asked if we would stop by the studio and do a podcast on the awesome Shootin' The Que - Heath Riles BBQ show, which was a blast. Talking with Heath and his amazing wife Candace made the trip even more special. Look for that podcast coming out soon. Without anymore introduction, the results:

🥇 1st place with a perfect perfect score of all 9’s from all 6 judges on Springer Mountain Farms 🐔
🥈2nd place Prairie Fresh 🍖
11th place Prime Pork (we won our table)
25th place Mister Brisket, Inc. 🐮 (first at our table got 16th)
🥇 Grand Champions!!! Mississippi State Championship winners!! Chicken dinners….
699.9…… someone needs to stop playing with us lol.

Congrats to Jason Cole of Hot Cole’s on the RGC and Poker Porkers BBQ for taking the Grand in the Memphis division. Also a Heath Riles sponsored team!

16/04/2024

Yessir!

16/04/2024

The people in Q….

This sport is so amazing. We met Jake, a student from Duke. Working on his senior documentary project. He chose Competition BBQ because he loves that stuff. Oddly he came to Bone Suckin' Sauce Peak City Pig Fest, even more strange…he chose Optimus Swine as a team to follow through the cook. Oddly…he documented a Grand Championship happen!

Thank you Graham and the people of Apex, North Carolina for hosting this fun event for its 15th year, and collectively raising over a half a million $$$$ for local charities. Thank you. 🙏

We had a great cook. Struggled through some of the boxing, but overcame our issues.

🥈 2nd place People’ Choice
🥈 2nd place Springer Mountain Farms 🐔 (coinflip)
🥈 2nd place Prairie Fresh 🍖
This is when our new friend Blake Smith leans over and tells us “If you’re not first you’re last”
🥉 3rd place Prairie Fresh Prime 🐷
5th place (no emoji for that lol) Mister Brisket, 🐮

That level of consistency was good enough for a score of 701. And the Grand Champions!!! This year has been amazing to Jason and I. We had a really hard time pulling through the winter at work, and improving our team. It’s extremely validating to go back at it, try really hard, and get some amazing calls. The dice aren’t always on your side, but if you try, and they are… I’m covered in Goosebumps.

Congrats to our extremely hard working friend, and amazing family man Brian Corbett with Smokin Skullies BBQ for that completely anticipated, good-karma-driven Reserve Grand buddy! I knew the dog you had in this fight was a killer.

Huge shout out to the amazing partners we have in BBQ, that produce these winning formulas:

14/04/2024

The new member of Optimus Swine 757 has been located safely!!!

14/04/2024

Big Win!!! Big Win!!!

13/04/2024

Let’s go!!! Hometown Tide Radio Williamsburg 92.3 & 107.9 finally found the comp team! What a fun time.

Brothers Jon and Jason Wade are co-owners of Two Drummers Smokehouse, a barbeque restaurant on Richmond Road in Toano. They sat down in the Tide Studio and shared how it feels to have been in business…

13/04/2024

This dude sitting next to me stole my phone and took selfies when we walked for trophies…only to afford us a Grand Championship!!! He’s officially on Optimus Swine. Find him. Send him to us!!! 😂 He did leave my phone where he found it!

07/04/2024

Let’s go baby!

JAMES CITY COUNTY — The smell of barbecue smoking on a grill means hanging out with friends, preparing the best bite and trophies for Optimus Swine. Jason and Jon Wade, brothers…

27/03/2024

Super excited about this weekends awards. Donated by the great Tuffy Stone. Presented by the great Tuffy Stone on Day 2. Also a shoutout to East Coast Smokinwood for putting up the freshly split bags of wood that made awesome bonus prizes!!
We had a great weekend at the BBQ Gives Back KCBS Contest and some good money was raised for Burn Survivors Foundation and some great food was collected for the local food bank. See everyone next year!

26/03/2024

What an amazing weekend! Urbanna, BBQ Gives Back KCBS Contest 2024

We took the winter off to be a family at home. Obviously we go to work and fire pits on the regular, this sport is different than the normal drive to work.

After years of falling flat on our face here at home, we feel like our Virginia BBQ is starting to translate to the local judges, scoring on Kansas City criteria. We’re getting there!

First of all Alex cooked his entire Kids Q turnin by himself. Again. All by himself. From knife work to lighting the cooker, handling his turkey. EVERYTHING
He landed at 4th place for the day. Incredibly proud of his sportsmanship and ability to take antagonism from less than sportsmanlike kids.

Day 1 was a wowie/ owwie kind of a day
13th place Springer Mountain Farms 🐔
🥉 place Prairie Fresh Natural 🍖
13th place pork (after a nice trip and fall I sprinted the box in 10 mins early 🤦‍♂️) 🐷 🩹
🥈 place Mister Brisket, Inc. 🐮
🥈 place overall Reserve Grand Champs
Congrats to Smokecraft Modern Barbecue on the GC

Day 2 we had a better cook, but different results
14th place 🐔
25th place ribs 🤔 🍖
🥇 place Prairie Fresh Prime Pork 🐷
16th place Mister Brisket 🐮
7th place Overall
Congrats to Ham Squad for the RGC
And Muttley Crew BBQ for the GC

🥇 place Virginia Grands Championship
Winner of the Mid Atlantic Barbecue Association Maba cup finals
Overall 2nd place Overall for the weekend!!!!

Pinch us



Next stop: Bone Suckin' Sauce Peak City Pig Fest Apex, Nc

07/03/2024

Good weekend for
These teams are all amazing cooks!

03/03/2024

After a nice winter break with the family, it was time to get cooking.
9th Annual Sip & Swine BBQ Festival
Lawrenceville, Ga
Second time cooking in Georgia in 2024. They like it sweet here. So we packed the brown sugar.

Decided to put the original cooker lineup back together to “cut the cord” and used all charcoal and stick burner technology from Outlaw BBQ Smokers and Neil Sims, fueled with Jealous Devil. The food was delicious. Sooooo much flavor. The results reflected.
With a delicious Cuban dinner of ceviche and paella that would knock your socks off, the weekend was off to a great deep flavored start. To kick up our flavors we enlisted our Heath Riles BBQ rubs and went at it.
The Springer Mountain Farms chicken recipe was 100% new. The brisket recipe was 100% new. And the pork and rib recipes carried over from last year. We are actively eliminating “market saturated products”from our trailer so lots of new rubs and sauces in the mix. One of those sauces was the Grand Champ here this weekend!

Before I share the results I will say there were 10 tables of judges, and we won every table we landed on. Couldn’t have been more happy with the cook and results.
12th place 🐔
10th place Prairie Fresh 🍖
12th place Prime 🐷
7th place Mister Brisket, Inc. 🐮
4th place overall!!!

SHOWED UP
Grand Champ: Yes, Dear BBQ
Reserve Geand: Ham Squad
3rd place: Hold Your Horses BBQ
4th place: Optimus Swine

Off to New Jersey

02/03/2024

Nothing left but the tears. Jason and I cooked really well today, it’s in the hands of the judges.

Lots of amazing teams here. We’d love to hear “Optimus Swine” just ONCE!!!!

Season starts officially this weekend. Let’s Go!!!
Year 9 Sip N Swine.