Eat country’s best BBQ, enjoy unique beers, chocolates on a trip to North Georgia

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Blue Hound Barbecue “Barbecue is so simple on the surface; I mean, it’s salt, pepper, smoke and meat and just a lot of patience, but it’s a tough craft to master,” Kyle Bryner told WSBTV.com’s Nelson Hicks. “And so I think that’s what is appealing to me is it’s something that anybody could do in their backyard, but to do it at a high level consistently, it’s like chasing that dragon that you’re always trying to defeat. And I guess I just love a good challenge.”

Blue Hound Barbecue The chicken fried ribs topped his ‘Ode to Appalachia’ feast on the Food Network’s “BBQ Brawl,” a competition that gathered the best barbecue pitmasters in the country. “I saw World Barbecue Champions, I saw James Beard, multiple-time nominees, some people from Top Chef and these chefs that have made a name for themselves in the industry already and here’s a no-name guy from Dillard, Ga., in the midst of all this barbecue royalty and chef street creds all over the place in here,” Bryner said. (Blue Hound Barbecue)

July 08, 2026 at 9:34 am EDT

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