BBQ and Bourbon

BBQHub.com loves Rigdon’s Trackside BBQ in Madisonville, Kentucky. Even though the location was only open for two weeks, check out this rave review. We both had a 2 rib plate with baked beans and cole slaw as well as a pulled pork sandwich. It was unbelievable!!I picked up one of the ribs and the meat [...]

Very nice story in the Washington Post today about Bourbon. But Jason Wilson feels the need to “stick up” for Bourbon. Since Bourbon sales are increasing at a nice clip, it wasn’t really needed. But if it starts to fall because WaPo wrote about it? Blame Jason. That’s not to say anyone needs to understand [...]

Beam Rocks, a concert series backed by Jim Beam Bourbon, will be in Boston May 6 at the Paradise Rock Club with Galactic headlining. Galactic is a New Orleans group that blends hip hop and funk. Galactic – a five-man group, together for more than a decade – gained New Orleans notoriety in its early [...]

The wonderful thing about having eight or so barbeque joints in such a small county like Monroe County, Kentucky is that you are never far from more good barbecue. OK, I will admit it early on. I ate two barbeque meals in 90 minutes. I asked Randy at Backyard BBQ where else I should go [...]

(AP) – Fear of swine flu is a good reason to wash your hands, but not to take pork off the menu. Federal health officials say the virus that has triggered fears of a flu pandemic is not transmitted by food, and that all food-borne germs are killed when pork is cooked to the recommended [...]

Esquire magazine is having a big party on Kentucky Derby day in the Big Apple. Esquire Editor-in-Chief David Granger and Union Square Hospitality Group CEO Danny Meyer host the “Greatest Two Minutes in Sports” at NYC’s Eleven Madison Park using Marker’s Mark Bourbon for their mint juleps. Daniel Humm will be rustlin’ up southern grub [...]

When you visit Monroe County Kentucky – and you must – as soon as you cross the county line, roll down your car window, open up the sunroof, and I swear you will smell barbeque. Monroe County has about eight barbeque restaurants, down one because earlier this month the legendary Frances Bar-b-que restaurant burned to [...]

Oh please tell me you have been here and the barbeque is good. Please, please, please. This guy is what doing good Q is all about. Having fun. Jones Good Ass BBQ and Foot Massage, a division of Jones Big Ass Truck Rental and Storage. Ten Wings and Ten Toes, $10.99 Twenty Wings and Twenty [...]

The Wall Street Journal reports… Brown-Forman Corp. (BFB) said it would cut 250 jobs, or about 6% of its global work force, and make other cost cuts to adjust to slowing demand. The liquor and wine producer also is offering early retirement to some U.S. employees, eliminating merit increases for all employees and reducing spending [...]

Family owned Brown-Forman, wants to merge with family owned Bacardi. Brown-Forman has a large stable of strong American brands including Early Times, Woodford Reserve, and Old Forester Bourbons. The two companies have been long considered ideal partners, but because of family ownership a deal has never been struck. Since the spirits industry is in difficult [...]