2025 BBQ & Brew Contest Results

People’s Choice Champion

Slap Your Bacon BBQ – Ankeny, IA

Celebrity Judges’ Picks

1. Pork & Pints – Grinnell, IA

2. 6-Pack & a Rack – Marshalltown, IA

3. Community Choice Credit Union BBQ – Johnston, IA

Overall – Top 10

1. Backroad BBQ – Ames, IA

2. Brown Dog BBQ – Stuart, IA

3. Slap Your Bacon BBQ – Ankeny, IA

4. Nobody BBQ – Owatonna, MN

5. Smoke Show BBQ – Garner, IA

6. Big N Little BBQ – Des Moines, IA

7. Notourious BBQ – Mt. Ayr, IA

8. I’d Smoke Dat BBQ – Des Moines, IA

9. Bottoms Up Iowa – Norwalk, IA

10. Rubbed, Roasted and Charred – Durant, IA

Pork Loin – Top 10

1. Community Choice Credit Union BBQ – Johnston, IA

2. Nobody BBQ – Owatonna, MN

3. Brown Dog BBQ – Stuart, IA

4. Backroad BBQ – Ames, IA

5. I'd Smoke That – Des Moines, IA

6. Rubbed, Roasted and Charred – Durant, IA

7. Smoke Show BBQ – Garner, IA

8. Finger Lickin' Squealers – Madrid, IA

9. Bottoms Up Iowa – Norwalk, IA

10. Joe Buxbbq – West Des Moines, IA

Pork Ribs – Top 10

1. Two Old Guys Rubbin Butts – Ames, IA

2. Backroad BBQ – Ames, IA

3. Notourious BBQ – Mt. Ayr, IA

4. Iowa's Swinest – Bondurant, IA

5. Strong Smokerz LLC – West Des Moines, IA

6. Big N Little BBQ – Des Moines, IA

7. 6-Pack & a Rack – Marshalltown, IA

8. Bottoms Up Iowa – Norwalk, IA

9. The Dirty Piggy BBQ – Des Moines, IA

10. Slap Your Bacon BBQ – Ankeny, IA

Pork Butt – Top 10

1. Slap Your Bacon BBQ – Ankeny, IA

2. I’d Smoke Dat BBQ – Des Moines, IA

3. Backroad BBQ – Ames, IA

4. B Money & the Meat Sweats – Urbandale, IA

5. Brown Dog BBQ – Stuart, IA

6. Smoke Show BBQ – Garner, IA

7. Joe Buxbbq – West Des Moines, IA

8. Notourious BBQ – Mt. Ayr, IA

9. Matty Mack’s BBQ – Cedar Rapids, IA

10. Big N Little BBQ – Des Moines, IA