There was a stage and a pretty good band playing while we were there, lots of food vendors - most of which were in the BBQ cookoff competion - and a few other craft-type vendors and a beer tent.
It was set up where you 'bought' BBQ Bucks to use at all of the food vendors instead of cash. Worked out pretty well I suppose, except when you ran out of BBQ Bucks!! Most of the vendors sold 'samples' for $1, but we also sampled a couple of sandwiches. I wish I would have taken note of the ones we tried but I didn't - I should know better than to trust my memory. But we had an excellent pulled-pork on Indian frybread... DELISH!!! Everything was excellent - Porky's Pride had a great sauce and their brisket just melted away... When Pigs Fly had the best rib I've ever tasted... and a terrific spicey sauce, holy, uhm pig, it was good. We tried several other places and never had a bad anything and I'm sorry I can't remember their names but all was tasty.
The only disappointment (and not to me since I'm not a beer drinker) was the "beer garden". Due to the Pork & BREW name we assumed that there would be quite a variety of beers to sample - sort of like what they were doing with the BBQ... microbreweries, or whatever, but nope, just one tent with a Budweiser truck pulled up behind it. Bryan, since living in the PNW, has become quite the beer snob and Bud just won't do (well, in a pinch but...).
Stage
Trophies
When Pigs Fly BBQ Grill Team (best ribs around!)
View of Sandia's from the Pork & Brew
