My Name is Jay, I live in Houston,TX. I'm a back yard smoker who will do anything from cheese to dessert and everything in between. I've never tried competition but, I've been told several times that I could. I just like to feed people. I have a Brinkmann Trailmaster offset vertical smoker. There are 2 in the pic. The firebox rusted off after several years of use and I bought another one. I patched the firebox hole on the side and now use that 1 as my cold smoker. Just bought a grinder and very excited to try making sausage from scratch.