Holt Brothers BBQ is a competition BBQ team consisting of Justin and Patrick Holt, located in the Charlotte area in the Piedmont of North Carolina. We were raised on years of learning the art of slow and low pit cooked pork shoulders over naturally cured pecan and hickory from our late father, who tended pits and made a top secret sauce (still protected to this day), during quarterly fundraisers for the volunteer fire department he was a long time member of in Badin, NC. The members took tremendous pride in their art, and the smell of the pecan/hickory smoke blended with the cold fall or warm summer nighttime air still takes both of us back to those wonderful weekends. We both cherish and revere those skills our late father instilled and passed down to us and are taking that passion to the competition circuit to honor his memory, and show the big boys these Carolina brothers are here to win!
Proudly representing:
2023 Was our best season yet!
2 first place KCBS Chicken calls!
6 Top 10 KCBS meat calls, 5 SCA top 10 calls including 1 ancillary win!
Hollis won 4 kids q contests!
Only NC SCA cook to make the finals at the SCA World Championships in Ft. Worth TX
28th ribs in the American Royal open in Kansas City KS.
Most contest we have done in a season and by far the most driving.
We look forward to seeing everyone in 2024
2023 season wrap:
KCBS Contests: 12
SCA Contests: 7
DALs: 0
Miles driven: ~7800
Mt Dews drank: 800
Thunderstorms: 4
Wrong turns: 2 !
States we competed in: 9!
2024 Season (so far...)
Jan - 1 - SCA in Goldsboro NC
Jan - 26/27/28 - KCBS Lakeland Pig Fest - Lakeland, FL
Feb - 10 - SCA in Snow Hill NC
Feb- 23/24/25 - KCBS King of the Farm - Iron Station NC
Mar - 1/2/3 - KCBS Sip & Swine - Lawrenceville GA
Mar- 13-19 - SCA worlds Fort Worth
May - 3/4/5 - KCBS Jiggy
May - 24/25/26 - KCBS Worlds Lebanon TN
Jun - 14/15/16 - KCBS Almost Heaven WV
Jun - 29 - SCA Lodge Tennessee
Jul - 11/12/13 - KCBS Greenwood SC
Jul - 19/20/21 - KCBS Wise VA
Jul - 26/27/28 - KCBS Galax VA
Aug - 30/31 - KCBS King NC
Sep - 20/21 - KCBS Pigmasters NC
Sep - American Royal?
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