Ribber Bios
Camp 31
CAMP 31 was founded in 1908 as a "Saw Mill" general store outside the city of Brewton, Alabama in Escambia County.
But in 1985, CAMP 31 was re-opened, this time serving up mouth-watering Southern Bar-B-Que. The Brewton Police Dept. knew Camp 31 had the best BBQ in the south and helped us enter our first BBQ cook-off in Pensacola, Florida. In the 1986 cook-off we won 3 first place trophies, and since, touring of the US and Canada has not stopped. The store is now headquarters to our award-winning cook-off team.
Along with the awards and trophies, we are still one of the highest productive BBQ teams on the road today, cooking the best Southern Style Bar-B-Que around - Slow smoked over hickory logs ensuring the tenderest meat and the most flavorful rib experience!
AWARDS:
2007 Brockville RibFest – 3rd Place for BEST SAUCE, and People’s Choice for BEST SAUCE
2006 Brockville RibFest – 1st Place for BEST RIBS, 2nd Place for BEST SAUCE, People's Choice for BEST CHICKEN.
2006 Scarborough RibFest – People's Choice for BEST RIBS.
Gator
Gator is one of the original Ribbers at RibFest. They have returned each year from Florida bringing their own variety of great ribs and wonderful southern smoky flavour. Gator has won the people’s choice award at Brockville RibFest for their outstanding sauce.
AWARDS:
2007 Brockville RibFest – 1st Place for BEST SAUCE
2004 Brockville RibFest – 1st Place for BEST SAUCE.
Silver Bullet
Silver Bullet have been at RibFest since 2004. Silver Bullet is from Fort Erie and brings a variation of their own flavourful ribs that have been popular with Brockville RibFest winning both top prize and people’s choice awards.
AWARDS:
2007 Brockville RibFest – 3rd Place for BEST RIBS
2007 Chicken/Rib Cook-off at Sparks Street Mall – 1st Place for BEST CHICKEN, 2nd Place for BEST RIBS.
2004 Brockville RibFest – People's Choice for BEST BOOTH, BEST CHICKEN, and BEST RIBS.
Billy Bones
Billy Bones is known throughout the US and Canada as one of the godfathers of BBQ. He has been on the road serving up mouth watering ribs for over twenty five years and is still going strong. Billy's team starts out by coating the ribs with his secret dry rub, after that the ribs are loaded into the smoker. The ribs than spend 3 hours gently rotating around the smoker while being infused with flavor from the wild cherry wood used to fuel the smoker. Once the ribs have finished smoking they are placed on the grill and basted with sauce.
AWARDS:
2008 Brockville RibFest – 1st Place BEST RIBS, 1st Place BEST SAUCE, People’s Choice for BEST SAUCE
2007 Brockville RibFest – 2nd Place for BEST RIBS and BEST SAUCE
2007 Chicken/Rib Cook-off at Sparks Street Mall – 1st Place for BEST SAUCE, 3rd Place for BEST RIBS.
2005 Niagara Falls RibFest – 1st Place for BEST RIBS, BEST SAUCE, People's Choice for BEST RIBS
2005 Toronto RibFest – 1st Place for BEST RIBS.
2005 Timmins RibFest – 1st Place for BEST SAUCE, People's Choice for BEST RIBS.
2005 Sarnia RibFest – 1st Place BEST OVERALL.
Blazin’ Barbecue
In 2002 Blazin’ Barbecue had their debut at SARS-STOCK which was one of the largest benefit concerts and barbecues in North America. Blazin’ Barbecue creates an old southern barbecue with a modern Canadian edge.
They provide a fun and exciting atmosphere, which includes knife, tong and fire tricks to keep you entertained throughout the weekend. Blazin’ Barbecue provides mouth-watering chicken and ribs and has recently ventured into the catering scene.
AWARDS:
2008 Brockville RibFest – 2nd Place for BEST SAUCE
2008 Sarnia Kinsmen RibFest – Grand Champion best overall Ribs, Chicken and sauce
2007 Aurora and Guelph – 1st Place for BEST RIBS
NEW RIBBERS THIS YEAR:
Jack the Ribber
Is based in London, ON. The backbone of their operation is an "Ole Hickory Pits" wood burning smoker that smokes 226 St. Louis racks at a time. The finished product, ribs or chicken, is bbqed on a wood burning, hickory open flame BBQ.
AWARDS
2007 Sarnia - Best Sauce
2006 Sarnia - Celebrity Choice
2006 Kitchener - Best Sauce
2006 Timmons - Best Sauce
2006 Gananoque - People's Choice
Hawgs Gone Wild
Is from Daytonna Beach Florida and have been in Canada for 2 years. They opened up the season in Pickering and won first place sauce and second place ribs.
Crabby’s BBQ Shack
Is based in London, ON. Crabby's doesn't smoke its ribs, they marinade them, cook them for hours in an oven and finish them on the grill just before they are served. Crabby's has "racked" up more than 300 awards and more than 10 years of staying power in the BBQ competition circuit.
AWARDS
2006 London International RibFest - 1st Place for Best Sauce, 2nd Place for Best Ribs
2006 Ottawa RibFest - 1st Place for Best Chicken
2006 Etobicoke RibFest - 1st Place for Best Ribs, People's Choice
2006 Barrie RibFest - 1st Place for Best Pulled Pork
2006 Scarborough RibFest - 1st Place for Best Sauce
2006 Mt Forest RibFest - 1st Best Ribs, Best Sauce and Best Chicken
2006 St.Thomas RibFest - 1st Place for Best Ribs and Best Sauce
