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Don Marco · BBQ Fan Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 262 Location: Germany

Howdy folks...

I´m just back from a very special event. Hasseröder, one of germany largest breweries, made a competition to enter a so called "Man Camp".

http://maenner-camps.de/

20 people could enter each competition and bring 3 friends so theres 80 people in 20 Teams at each of the 5 events who will have an action packed day outdoors
with motorsports, rafting, sailing, climbing, archery and lots of other stuff.

This first of the events was at a beautiful boy scout camp at a lake.

They were told to have a BBQ at the evening with the World Champions so thats where my Team and i come in.

What they didnt know before was that THEY would have to grill for us and we´d judge the food. The scoring from the BBQ competition counts 1/3 of the overall Sports and Team scores so it was quite important for them.

We didnt make it too hard for them though. Suppplied each team with a char griller, charcoal and chimney, cutting boards, knifes, vegetables, marinade ingredients, spices and 5 pounds of pork tenderloin.

They had to cook a marinated tenderlojn and veggie kabob, a stuffed tomato and bruscetta.

Here we go from the start :

After we arrived we were told theres only softdrinks until 7 pm.
We said that was fine since to us beer is a softdrink but they said
they cant give out alcohol until then because the teams had their tasks to do and they couldnt serve beer because of insurance reasons.

Off course we had a small emergency supply of 24 bottles in our camper so at last our most neccessary supply was secured.
When we popped the first cold ones open we had 160 thirsty eyes on us and felt kinda like these guys :

Heres all the grills unloaded. We took off the front shelves and handles so they all fit into one huge trailer

Heres our Snacks

I cooked some pork loins so the guys had a small snack after completing the sports and they were really happy about that

Meanwhile we had also set up the teams booths.

Then they were briefed for what they had to cook.
Most of them had never cooked on a smoker or indirect at all before since over here grilling basicly means charring thin pieces of meat over an open top grill but they liked the grills very much and turned in some fantastic plates in relation to what they could do with their background and the limited supply of food and spices.

All we had to do then was to drink beer and walk around to give the teams some tipps and answer questions.

Heres some of the turn ins :

After we finished judging it was time for the award ceremony
The winning team wasnt leading after the first part of the day but scored bigtime at the BBQ and so they won after all.

After that we could slowly end the evening with a couple more beers and schnapps

This was a very nice start and i´m looking forward a lot to the next events over the coming two months, especially those at the eurospeedway racing circuit.

We made a lot of new friends, had fun and beer and could spread the word of BBQ a bit, what more can you ask for ?

So long,

DM
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erniesshop · Posted: Sun Jun 21 09 9:31 pm Post subject:

Awesome post !!
Looks like everyone had a whopping good time !
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Mike Lawry · Posted: Sun Jun 21 09 10:03 pm Post subject:

Neat . Nothing like that here.

Mike Lawry.

Canadian Bacon · Posted: Sun Jun 21 09 10:34 pm Post subject:

Looks like it was a blast DM,great pics and thanks for sharing them all with us.You must be the team photographer are ya. Very Happy

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Smoke on the Horizon · Posted: Sun Jun 21 09 11:22 pm Post subject:

Don,

Great food and the pictures are awsome as always.

Thanks for sharing.
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Rojellio Es Caliente · Posted: Sun Jun 21 09 11:37 pm Post subject:

Looks like fun.

I am fairly certain that if there were a Man Camp in Colorado, it would be pretty much the exact opposite in more ways than I care to mention.
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whitey · Posted: Mon Jun 22 09 2:48 am Post subject:

Rojellio Es Caliente

It does look like fun.

We do it alot different here in Washington state! Theres always a bunch of fist fights here Shocked

Thats all fun as long as No one gets hurt,When they do then its Funny as SH!T Shocked

Just kidding nice time
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stillsmokin · Posted: Mon Jun 22 09 3:49 am Post subject:

Looks like a great time with friends and great drink and great food. thanks for for the pics.
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Sirsmokealot · Posted: Mon Jun 22 09 3:51 am Post subject:

DM, I swear, you and your pals have more fun than anyone I've seen..........looks GREAT!
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istock74 · BBQ Pro Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 668 Location: Logan, IA

Man....New DM posts are like Christmas for me. Laughing

Looks like an absolute blast.
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Matt HHI · Newbie Joined: 06 Jan 2009 Posts: 52 Location: HHI,SC

Wow that looks like an amazing time. Great pics
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Dawgfatha · Posted: Mon Jun 22 09 6:50 pm Post subject:

It started off looking like an episode of Survivor but man that finale was better than any Survivor I've seen. Looked like a lot of fun. Food looks awesome too.
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Shane123 · Posted: Mon Jun 22 09 7:25 pm Post subject:

Germany seems so much more fun than Philly. Looks like a blast DM

kjash13 · Posted: Mon Jun 22 09 7:49 pm Post subject:

Why can't a friendly brewery do that in this country??? Dang...
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USDA Monkey · Posted: Mon Jun 22 09 7:54 pm Post subject:

I want to go to there!
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k.c.hawg · BBQ Fan Joined: 17 May 2009 Posts: 395

DM is quickly becoming a mythical character that was created by Marvel...the only thing is, he has pictures as proof it really happened! Must be trick photography...no one can be rolling like that guy can they?

Cal-B-Que · Posted: Tue Jun 23 09 4:52 am Post subject:

Great post; thanks for sharing. I have German roots and would love to visit someday.