Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 665.5656 at Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1) — 92.4% of a perfect 720.
American Barbecue Company ahead in 100% of their meetings
American Barbecue Company has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Off the trail for 11.2 years, then back at Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1) (2024-09-20).
Cousins Q has landed one call behind them 2 times.
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Beverage Brothers BBQ has 4 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 145 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Beverage Brothers BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Beverage Brothers BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Beverage Brothers BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Beverage Brothers BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before Beverage Brothers BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 161.1200 | 166.61 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 156.5144 | 164.10 | top 65% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 162.2856 | 166.40 | top 62% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 158.2972 | 163.27 | top 56% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA | 2 | 0 | top 79% |
| CT | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
| RI | 1 | 0 | top 15% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 82% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 15% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) | 2 | 19 | 0 | top 79% | 2024-09-21 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +12.5 | Wakefield Rotary Campus CookOff & State BBQ Championships | 2013-07-20 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.7 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) | 2025-04-12 |
| -6.6 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) | 2024-09-21 |
| -4.4 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1) | 2024-09-20 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 89.8% | 89.8% |
| 2024 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 79% | 92.4% | 92.1% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 15% | 91.6% | 91.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-12 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) 🏅 Bristol, CT | 31 / 35 (646.7200) | 33 (161.1200) | 32 (156.5144) | 19 (169.1084) | 26 (159.9772) |
| 2024-09-21 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) 🏅 Southwick, MA | 22 / 27 (660.5488) | 18 (167.9772) | 21 (164.5944) | 15 (169.6800) | 20 (158.2972) |
| 2024-09-21 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Southwick, MA | — | 9 (170.8572) | — | — | — |
| 2024-09-21 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT RIBS) Southwick, MA | — | — | 7 (169.1084) | — | — |
| 2024-09-20 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1) 🏅 Southwick, MA | 19 / 25 (665.5656) | 19 (166.2400) | 13 (167.9772) | 24 (164.5256) | 15 (166.8228) |
| 2013-07-20 | Wakefield Rotary Campus CookOff & State BBQ Championships Kingston, RI | 7 / 46 (659.4512) | 12 (166.8800) | 16 (162.3200) | 20 (162.2856) | 7 (167.9656) |