Fall has arrived, which means apple cider & pumpkin patches, birds are heading south and cricket chirps have been replaced with falling leaves & falling temps. But don't roll that grill or smoker away just yet...



It's time for October's HOT From The Pit!

October's Gold Medal Giveaway random winner was 2nd-year member Lil-lu!

Also known as Louis Hanna, Lil-lu chose the Broil King Keg 5000 With Cover, MSRP $1,044!

In addition, Lil-lu (and every monthly winner) also gets a 12-bottle case of Max Good's Black Swan Gourmet BBQ Sauce!

Wish Lil-lu a congratulations in his Pit announcement topic here!

"When will the next winner be announced, and how will I know if it's me?"

We round up all eligible entrants at the beginning of each month and send the ever-growing list to the sweepstakes company on or about the 7th of each month. Usually within a day or two the winner's name is returned to us, and the announcement is made. So watch the Gold Medal Giveaways channel or Today's Posts on or near the 7th-10th of each month. There's no exact date, but now you know when & where to watch!

The winner is also notified at the email address listed in their account details.

You snooze, you lose! Winners have only 5 days to respond, so m ake sure you gave us an email address you actually check, and make sure @amazingribs.com is whitelisted there so our emails make it to your inbox and not your spam folder! If you're reading this newsletter and it wasn't in your spam folder, you're probably good. 👍

If ever you need to change your email address with us, simply click the Request Form link at the top of your User Settings page, or right here .

As part of our goal to provide our members with increasing value, we're excited to let you know about a SPECIAL LIMITED TIME DEAL from PK Grills!

Now through November 4th, PK Grills has extended a special coupon code to our members offering them $200 OFF their PK360 grill , a solid built-to-last grill & smoker that has earned our Pitmaster Award for Best Value Grills ...and this deal also comes with FREE shipping!

Use coupon code RIBS200 on their checkout page to score this deal.

HURRY! You only have a week- offer ends November 4th

...are you, our members? Let's see!

We're pleased to share our new interactive Pitmaster Club Global Membership Map!

Developed with love by our Senior vBulletin Developer Ray "RayJ" Johnson ( raywjohnson) , this new map shows all areas of the globe where our members live.

Don't worry, it's anonymous- it doesn't show names or usernames, who lives where or any specific addresses. It's only a city/postal code level of detail. But how cool is it to see how many Pit members live in certain areas?!

Colored number circles represent how many registered members are in that area. Click a circle to zoom in on that area. Repeat. Once you zoom in far enough to see a "piggy head", that's an anonymous single member who lives in that general area. You can zoom in/out with the controls or your mouse wheel, and you can pan the map left/right/up/down by clicking and dragging any direction.

If you find out there's other members in your general area and you'd like to get together, post a call to action in the Meat-Ups and Member Gatherings channel and create a post!

Without further ado, it's time to drool!

This is merely a sampling of the many wonderful pictures of food our members have shared, there's far more in the thread itself. These highlights are from our Show Us What You're Cooking topic for Fall 2018:

Kicking it off is Polarbear777's priceless shot of his pup's 7th birthday "meat cake". Lucky dog!

The sandwich & burger "king", HouseHomey, shares this mortadella, red onion, tomato and fried egg monster!

FishTalesNC is eatin' good in the neighborhood with this plate full o' teriyaki chicken thighs, onions, peppers and mushrooms & grilled pineapple.

Satay wings from lonnie mac

Cast iron-seared steak from JakeT, cooked to perfect medium rare

Grilled pitas stuffed with marinated red peppers, pepperoncinis, grilled onions and halloumi cheese from Attjack, followed by a gorgeous "multivitamin" plate!

Here's Spinaker and his cutie pie niece whipping up some Buffalo chicken which they put into egg roll wraps and deep fried... I think I know my next party snack!

Chipotle flank steak and blue smoke slaw, from sdr7057

Beautiful rotisserie pork loin with Memphis Dust, from RickyBobby

Here's N227GB's chicken & lamb version of Meathead's Binghamton Spiedies

HJS's baby backs and cornbread

marvinpotter's beef ribs and chicken cook- this man knows how to BBQ!

Below Zero Smoker shares this open pit chicken cook over a washing machine tub with wood coals!

Here's a Sous-Vide-Q tri tip over board sauce from Pequod

Here's a Prime brisket from obiQsmoker. He says it's only his second brisket, but from the looks of this one I'd love to be around for his next one!

Turkey wings cooked on the PBC, from Cashelton

Cowboy ribeye cooked on the coals from Steve B, and a shot of beef ribs

Charter Member Skip's first try at Meathead's bacon- how awesome is that?! If you haven't tried Meathead's homemade bacon recipe you must, so easy and so good!

New member WaikikiWayne's St Louis ribs cook. Nice plate! He mentions he actually prefers baby backs. What about you? Let us know in our poll!

mbrener's first post is his marinated chicken cook. Beautiful, wish I was invited!

Craigar is hogging all these "blasphemy ribs" for himself and not sharing, but at least he shared the picture!

Here's Oozzy's "Thanksgiving in October" turkey. Wow!

Shrimp, calamari & sausage gumbo from who else but theroc, and, as a bonus, some reverse seared rack of lamb!

Your assignment- sharpen up your photography skills & make it hard on me to pick which pics make the cut next month. Everyone is doing great so far!

Be sure to visit our new Show Us What You're Cooking- Volume 11.2, Fall 2018 and share your food pics!

With what's affectionately known as 'turkey day' coming up next month, be sure to check out Clint Cantwell's new Ultimate Thanksgiving Turkey Burger Recipe- a burger that incorporates turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, BBQ sauce, and sweet potato fries!

Be the hero at your 'turkey day' gathering with this brand new masterpiece!

New Pit member Brentaustin recently won 2nd place at a local competition. He feels that since there were only 4 teams instead of the 10 expected his placement was diminished. I say he'd have taken 2nd place even if there were 30 teams. Wish him a congrats!

Don't forget to learn a little about your fellow Pit members and others in the BBQ biz by listening to Greg Rempe's recent weekly interviews on his members only PitCasts, posted each week on Thursday in The PitCast with Greg Rempe channel .

Here are the most recent shows:

DON'T MISS THE CHANCE to be a guest on Greg's next PitCast!

Stop by the link above and let him know. And don't worry- you don't have to be a pro pitmaster or chef, you just have to answer his questions and tell us a little about yourself. He does most of the work and makes it very enjoyable.