It’s Shaping Up To Be The Biggest BBQ Weekend Downtown Excelsior Springs Has Ever Seen!

August 3, 2023

Whether you spell it BBQ, Barbeque or Barbecue, it’s the taste of America and it’s headed to Downtown Excelsior Springs! Mark your calendars and join us on Friday, August 18th and Saturday, August 19th while over 60 competition BBQ teams compete, nearly 20 home brewers put their beers up to the test and 13 participating locations sample bourbons and whiskeys!

Schedule of Events

Friday, August 18th

Teams Arrive
4:00 PM · Gates Open
4:00 PM – 11:00 PM · D&S Guns Gun Raffle
4:00 PM – 11:00 PM · Beer Garden
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM – US ARMY Blackhawk at Piburn Field
5:00 PM · Cook’s Meeting
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM · BBQ Team Scavenger Hunt
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM · 1st Annual Whiskey Walk
6:30 PM · Kid’s Que Competition
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM · People’s Choice
7:00 PM – 11:00 PM · Live Music · Backroad Navigators
DARK · Fireworks Show

Saturday, August 19th

6:45 AM · Cook’s Church
8:00 AM · Bloody Mary Contest
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM · BBQ Team Scavenger Hunt
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM · Home Brew Contest
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM · D&S Guns Gun Raffle
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM · KCBS Turn Ins
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM · Live Music · Kevin Cline
4:00 PM · Awards Ceremony

Whiskey Walk

Friday, August 18th
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Join us for the first ever Whiskey Walk in Downtown Excelsior Springs! Attendees will taste bourbons and whiskey and even enjoy some great bacon and BBQ along the way!

Participating Locations

Atlas Saloon Brewery
BluBox Boutique
Bootleg Bourbon Balls
Casa Di Vite International Wine Cafe
Copperhead Boutique + Floristry
Cyber Center Computer Solutions
Holladay Distillery
Kilgore’s Vintage & Design
Of The Earth Farm Distillery
Solana On Broadway
Truman Reserve
Ventana Gourmet Grill
West Bottoms Whiskey

Some Featured Whiskeys & Bourbons

Holladay Soft Red Wheat
Jameson Black Barrell
Rieger’s Nobel Oak
Truman Reserve
West Bottoms Kansas City Whiskey

With Many More Being Announced Soon!!!

Home Brew Contest

Saturday, August 19th
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
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Premier home brewers, award winning BBQ and musicians are brought together! Why drink beer you can have every day when you can drink beer you’ve never tasted before? Help us decide the People’s Choice winning beer!

Ticket Options

Standard Tasting Ticket

$25 Tasting Pass
Includes access to the event from NOON to 4:00 PM, unlimited home brew samples and a 5 ounce tasting glass.

V.I.P. Tasting Ticket

$35 Tasting Pass
Limited Quantity Available
Get EARLY ACCESS!
Includes access to the event from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM, unlimited home brew samples and a souvenir 13 ounce tasting glass.

V.I.P. Tasting Ticket & BBQ

$50 Tasting Pass
Sponsored by G.C. BBQ
Limited Quantity Available
Get EARLY ACCESS!
Includes access to the event from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM, unlimited home brew samples, a souvenir 13 ounce tasting glass and a competition style burnt ends BBQ lunch.

The Home Brewers

9 Foot Brewing
Black Dog
Easley Brewing
Flip The Record
Four Color Brewing
Goat Tree Brewery
Grainsmiths
Hammer Down Brewing
Kansas City Biermeisters
LaBeets Brewing
Nomad Brewhaus
Phat Ash Brewing
Redmon Ridge Brewing
Rock Star Bier Werks
Smash Brothers
Two Brothers Brewing

Some Featured Home Brews

American Amber Ale
American Pilsner
Barley Wine
Belgium Blonde Ale
California Common
Coffee Stout
Cucumber Lime Quencher
Cyzer Mead
Drifter’s Dream Ale
Farmhouse Ale
Fire Boss Red
Golden Oye
Grapefruit IPA
Hazy Pale Ale
Hazy Rye IPA

Hoppy Wheat
Kolsch
Lager
Mango Wheat
Mayberry Witt
Mexican Lager
Maui Wowie
Ode De Koln
Pale Ale
Pickaxe Pale Ale
Pymet Mead
Roaming Rhein
Squirrel Crossing
Umlet Kolsch
Wee Heavy Scottish Ale

BECOME A FRIEND OF THE FLY-IN HERE

Become a Friend of the Fly-In and get access to a Private Party filled with Competition BBQ Pork Loin sponsored by Prairie Fresh!

Henry Golden Boy Law Enforcement Tribute Edition Gun Raffle

US ARMY BLACKHAWK

Friday Night
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Piburn Ballfield

Ther Entertainment

Backroad Navigators

FRIDAY · 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Kevin Cline

SATURDAY · 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

The Fireworks

FRIDAY · AT DARK

23rd Annual Competition BBQ Teams

22 Que
4 Legs Up
913 BBQ
All Fired Up And Kicking Ash
All Forked Up For Q
Ambition Que
American Fire BBQ
Atlas Saloon Brewery
Bears Backyard Que
Brisketbone BBQ
Brushfire
Cow Creek BBQ
Damn Fine Beef & Swine
Fairway Smokers
Gettin’ Basted
Gettin’ Sauced
Go Pig or Go Home
Goodfellas BBQ & Catering
Grillas BBQ Team
Harold’s Hot Meat Smokers

Irwin’s Pit Crew BBQ
Janky Leg BBQ
JDQ BBQ
JJ’s Bangin’ BBQ
KCASS BBQ
Keep Calm & Sauce On
Locomotive #1
Love 2 Q
M2 Smokin Q
Machete Boys BBQ
Man Meat BBQ
No Money No Honey BBQ
Notch 9 BBQ
Pancho, Sisco, The Kid and Company
Parts R Smokin
Shaken-Baken
Slaps BBQ
Smoke ‘n Magic
Smoke This BBQ – MO
Smokin Guns

Smokin’ The Rite Way
Split Borders BBQ
Texpat BBQ
The Art of Que
The Dogs Like It
Three Brothers Different Mothers
Three Legged Pig BBQ
Too Sauced To Smoke
Weekend Bum BBQ
WOTS SMOKERS
Yelton Wood Ticks
Y-We-Q