This article is about how I built my vertical brick BBQ smoker. It wasn’t very difficult to do, it cost me only about $200, and it works quite well as a medium-large-capacity BBQ (does 50–75 pounds of ...

Question: I grill on the propane barbecue for quick meals. For entertaining, I would like an attractive brick barbecue that uses real charcoal. What design can an inexperienced homeowner build? Answer ...

Historians are famous for simplifying the complex processes of history into "inflection points" - those transformative events that forever changed the course of human evolution. Sometime in the ...

Don Baucham played the long game in the desert. He bought a piece of land in Terlingua a decade ago when he was still working an oil-and-gas job in Brazil. His plan was to build a barbecue joint in ...

The options for locally made beer in West Texas took a big hit when Big Bend Brewery ceased operations late in 2018. Luckily for beer lovers in the area, its former brewer, Brodie Pierce, now runs a ...