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Get In The Pit With The Pitmaster!

You’ve gotta barbecue on the 4th. It’s a law. Some throw dogs on the grill (to the tune of few million), some go for burgers, steaks, kabobs, chops, fish, whatever is there, it gets grilled or smoked.

Pitmaster Goes All Out

4 pork butts and 2 turkeys, smoked low and slow. Plus kielbasa and Roscoe’s red beans and rice, and just about every side dish you can imagine, all delicious, and now… all gone! (Hey, The Pitmaster might have held some back for his own personal stash, after all, you’ve gotta feed the family once everyone leaves, what’s right is right).

A Smoker Is a Wonderful Thing

And we’re not just talking cigar smokers, either. The Pitmaster makes his own smokers: experiments, tinkers, tests, adjusts, rethinks, retools, and after an extraordinary trial and error process, he achieves… perfection. Because here at Club Roscoe we settle for nothing less (okay, maybe once in a while we have to resign ourselves to the fact that not everything is perfect, but that’s why they invented booze).

The Perfect Butt

We’re gonna keep this on food today (won’t even mention the Cave Man, that’s a promise). The quest for the perfect butt is an ongoing thing (still trying to keep it on food, remember?), and even when one achieves it, there’s an urge to do it again. Those that can repeat, those that are consistent in their achievement, rendering that butt into a tasty, delicious phenomenon of gastronomic delight time after time… become know as Masters. The Pitmaster slathers his butts with mustard, then applies the dry rub and gets them right into the smoker with the maplewood, then he walks away (well, not really, because the kegerator just happens to be nearby, and it’s time to make sure it’s working – Roscoe’s Advice: always place your kegerator in close proximity to your grill or smoker).

Pulled Turkey

You don’t see it so much, do you? That’s because it takes a Master to get it right. But once you smoke a turkey and pull it apart and shred it, you’ll never want another roasted turkey again. And with the Pitmaster’s secret sauce recipe – now revealed to be vinegar, brown sugar, pineapple juice and Cholula Chili Lime – it becomes a delicacy that legends are made of.

They Came From Far and Wide

Most drove from the Detroit area, but a couple traveled from Pittsburg, and another couple from Texas. They stayed in nearby hotels or pitched tents. And to Roscoe’s trained eye, there was never such a congenial group in one place at one time (even Roscoe’s security team was in awe: not one meltdown the entire weekend).

And Then There Was Rocky

The Bagpipe Serenade

Bagpipes are practically a forgotten art, but Rocky brought it back to life. Always loud and piercing by nature, bagpipes are also full of soul and romance and power. And rocky had it all, to applause from neighbors up and down the lake in both directions. Another Master among us. And after that, 4th of July just won’t be the same without bagpipes.

Life’s Good, When You’re Cookin’ With The Pitmaster