A firelit backyard BBQ at dusk
Est. 2020 · Six summers of smoke
The Annual BBQ

Ko Por Que

One backyard. One fire. Everyone you love.
Scroll the years
2025
Summer · The big one

240 guests, three smokers, one impossibly long table.

Film
2025 — film still from the BBQ
Photo 2025 — photograph from the BBQ
2025 moment
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2024
Summer · Rain & shine

Rain at noon, sun by four. The brisket never stopped.

Film
2024 — film still from the BBQ
Photo 2024 — photograph from the BBQ
2024 moment
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2023
Spring · Sold out

First year we ran out of seats. New pit, same crew.

Film
2023 — film still from the BBQ
Photo 2023 — photograph from the BBQ
2023 moment
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6
Summers
1,400+
Guests fed
92
Briskets smoked
18
Guest pitmasters
2022
Summer · Loud

Two bands, a borrowed generator, zero regrets.

Film
2022 — film still from the BBQ
Photo 2022 — photograph from the BBQ
2022 moment
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2021
Summer · The comeback

Smaller, quieter, ours. The cook that brought us back.

Film
2021 — film still from the BBQ
Photo 2021 — photograph from the BBQ
2021 moment
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2020
Summer · Where it started

A backyard, a bag of charcoal, twelve friends.

Film
2020 — film still from the BBQ
Photo 2020 — photograph from the BBQ
2020 moment
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Map of Maple Hollow, the BBQ spot The spot
Maple HollowSame backyard, every August.

See you
in 2026.

One email a year. The date, the address, what to bring.

No spam. Just smoke signals.