Welcome to another season of Pitmaster, an Old Virginia Smoke podcast.  We kickoff 2025 by checking in with our friend and "awards chiropractor" Kyle Kuhn with Hot Daddy's BBQ, winner of the American Royal Invitational in 2024.

In this episode of Pitmaster, Luke and Brian from Smokin Skullies break down the end of the year and talk about the offseason.

This week we feature Charles Beard from Glamping Grillers on the eve of the Jack Daniel's World Championship. 

This special episode of Pitmaster features the head of the World Food Championships, Mike McCloud.   We talk categories, BBQ and cooking.

Dave and Shirin Mara of Meat Candy Q have been on.an absolute tear this this year!  On this episode of Pitmaster, we get to meet them and find out some of their tips, tricks, habits and routines that have them on track to win KCBS Rib Team of the Year.

OVS caught up with other cooks at the Americamps BBQ Throwdown in Ashland, Virginia, back in early August. Enjoy the fun, and don't forget to follow OVS on YouTube. 

It was quite the party, as it always is, at the Chillin' & Grillin' at the Glades. The event, which saw OVS take home the RGC, included a happy hour with Luke, Kim, and plenty of friends. Please enjoy! 

This week we preview the DC BBQ Battle with organizer Andrew Schaffer and OVS teammate Sir William Stilwell, aka The Goat! 

This week on Pitmaster, an Old Virginia Smoke podcast, we welcome Brad Cox of Local Yokels BBQ out of Illinois, recent winner of the KCBS World Invitational Open Contest.  If there's a better person in BBQ, I'd be interested in finding them!  This is a fun, feel good episode that I think you will enjoy!

On this episode of Pitmaster, we talk to Dennis Bowman of Bowman's Butts & BBQ, a great young man who just won his first Masters GC in Kannapolis.