It is time again for the annual Hog Roast at Swann's house in Vestavia Hills. This party averages around 120 to 150 guests and has become legendary. There is always an acoustic country band and a plethora of slow cooked bbq. You know Robert's neighbors have got to look forward to this party!!! August 9th has been selected for this years "Boar Bash" as it is now referred.
The following picture is the star of last year's party - a 100 pound hog that we spit roasted for 12 hours over a combination of charcoal, peach and pecan wood. Only the love of bbq would drive us to spend a
day in 95 degree weather, standing around hot burning coals, cooking this hog to perfection.
Once the hog is cooked we place it on a buffet table and the guests will come through the buffet line and use their forks to pull the pork off the hog and place it on their plates. Nothing like a "Pig Pickin" in the middle of Vestavia Hills!!!
We also cook several whole chickens and Alabama made Conecuh sausage to go along with the hog. Baked beans and coleslaw are served as sides although a true bbq glutton has no need for sides.......
We are getting ready to order the hog for this year's party and we are going to smoke the
hog in my Lang 84 smoker. Ben Lang manufactures these awesome "stick burners" in Georgia and this pit has
cooked thousands of pounds of bbq through the years. I will have some great pics to post after this year's party and hopefully Swann's neighbors will tolerate him for another year after this party.....
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