2013 Art & Balloon Festival, August 30, 2013
Special edition of LINCOLN DAILY NEWS.com Page 39
Up in Smoke and Backyard Barbecue
bring sweet smells to downtown Lincoln
Saturday, downtown Lincoln was filled with the sweet smells of terrific food as the Up
in Smoke Kansas City-sanctioned barbecue competition and the Backyard Barbecue
brought in dozens of teams with their smokers and grills.
Saturday evening, after much deliberation by the team of judges, winners were an-
nounced in each competition.
For the Up in Smoke competition, the grand champions were Shad and Angie Kirton
of Grimes, Iowa. The Kirtons are known in the barbecue world as A Boy & His Barbe-
cue.
The reserve champion was Twyford’s Barbecue and Catering, with Marla Twyford
cooking solo this year. Twyford usually partners with her husband, but this year he was
attending another competition at the same time. Twyford not only competed but also
had one of the food vendor trailers on the square this weekend. After taking reserve,
some of her fellow contestants joked that perhaps Twyford should leave her husband at
home more often.
The top three finishers for each class in the Up in Smoke competition are as follows:
Chicken Ribs
Pork
Brisket
1st Place
Bone-Head
Competition
BBQ; Rich
Jones
A Boy & His
BBQ; Shad &
Angie Kirton
Gilly’s BBQ;
Gil Taft
One2BBQ;
Steve Hayden
2nd Place
Chilley Water
Smokers;
Brian & Neely
Petty
Twyford’s
BBQ &
Catering;
Marla
Twyford
Gateway
Drum
Smokers;
Jeff Brinker
Twyford BBQ
& Catering
3rd Place
Pork Patrol;
Don & Dennis
Truckinbrod
It’s 5 O’clock
Somewhere;
Bryan Luke
Smokin’ Butts All in Que;
John Laflen &
Judy Woodard
