How To Use Snake Method BBQ on a Brinkmann Smoke and Grill 

Thanks for posting. YT was missing the snake method using this type of grill!

Only criticism I feel the need to offer is DO NOT soak your wood for any reason. Wet wood produces more smoke, but not clean smoke. That little bit of wood shouldn't be too terrible, BUT......dry wood is what you want when burning wood every time. Wet wood slows the burn potential and causes it to smolder and create thick white smoke. You want thin blue smoke and that comes from well lit, oxygen rich burning wood. Check for yourself clean vs dirty smoke. Dry, seasoned wood always produces best quality smoke

Thank you for this, seriously, was getting real sick of the "webber kettle" rabbit hole, ugh, was searching for this very thing, thank you

Yup! Great method on an offset/barrel type grill. I had figured this method out because I was tired of feeding my chargriller charcoal for 8 hours straight! This way is much more efficient! Thanks for the video! I had adapted it from all the webber videos too. Good to see somebody else try it on an offset!

trying the snake method on my bbq. its like yours and this info is outstanding

Very detailed and awesome info. Can’t wait to try this on my next bbq Sunday.

Thanks for furnishing these awesome info.

Loving the captions! Very clear instructions.

you've just made my new offset even more versatile. Thanks for posting :)

Will try this method from now on. Thanks for the video.

Thank you, I have this kind of grill, will try this weekend!

Great video. Will try this for sure.

Really good info mate, thanks heaps.

wow ..amazing....!thanks for making this video..

Thank you for the tips!

Thank you!!! I appreciate this!!

This music is wonderful

Going to try this tomorrow. Running a Chargriller rig that's just a mirror image of your Brinkmann.

hey thanks it saves alot of patience i will try it

Trying it tomorrow on a leg of goat. Thanks for the no nonsense tutorial.

I've been curious about this method on my Char Grill Barrel grill, similar to yours. Now I'm sure I can pull this off. Thanks!

Thanks mate, will try this next time I BBQ.

I usually make a small C snake on left side and put both of the ribs on the right side vertically and leave the left side open in time i needed to add up more charcoal.

Nice

I plan on smoking a pork loin tomorrow and will use this method

Can I do this with lump charcoal?

Did you ever flip those pork ribs as they cooked or did you leave them on 1 side the whole time?

So I'm completely new to smoking. I'm assuming his water is placed on that side attachment?

Going to try this on Saturday, got two racks, Should be amazing. Last time we tried on offset part but couldn’t keep the temps consistent. It either got too hot or too cold and we were checking every 20-30 mins!

Have your tired that method to smoke a Brisket? I have a barrel grill just curious if you have tried that method without using your fire box.

You didn't need a fourth row. You needed to close the chimney some. I do this with three rows in my Brinkmann and it works brilliantly. Three rows, the wood chips get strewn over the length of the snake with the chimney closed about halfway is the way I do it. When I go to mop my meat, I will also put a little bit of the mop liquid on the wood chips that aren't on the burning coals. This allows me to keep my wood chips somewhat moist. It works really nicely. I'll be using this method to smoke two racks each of pork and beef ribs and a brisket this weekend. :)

Good alternative use of the snake method! The elevator music wasn't great but still like the fast documentation method

in my head I couldn't believe that it wouldn't work. I do it all the time in a kettle, so why not apply the same concept to a barrel smoker.?? Google searches kept saying no, and blah blah this and blah blah that. Same as this cook shown in this video, i want to do more than one bit of brisket or one rack of ribs. cant do that on my kettle without burning some of the meat over the heat source points. This is exactly how i have been envisioning in my head of how to do it. The other idea i have thought of is to cut up two side fire boxes and bolt / weld them together and run the snake in the now extra large fire box, obviously a weight issue on the side of the drum and would need legs on the side box, but it could be possible. Thanks Don, i was holding back buying one of these barrel style cookers because of the uncertainty of the snake method, which is so much easier, almost set and forget, versus having to keep adding wood, warming the next bits and so on. You have just put my mind at ease to go an buy the big barrel cooker now. Cheers

I was Looking for it, I don't have a Webber but a Grill yeap :D

I have been looking for someone doing this.l. I didnt want to rake out another 500+ for a pellet grill for some meats I would do much. My grill is like yours without the firebox. I guess Ill have to try 3-4 rows.. maybe in the summer 3 when its cooler 4.. at least I have something to go by. thanks again

Will this work on a regular full size bbq grill?

I’ve done this many times. I’d not soak the wood chips and put most of them at the beginning of the snake. Meat only take so much smoke flavor. Good demo though

That looks delicious 🤤! And I am sure it was, but not being an expert in grilling or smoking ribs, I jus say this, if I had to wait for five hours for my meal, I think I would have left your house way before that, and shoot out straight for the nearest Carl’s Juniors 🍔🍔🍔😂😂😂😂

With so many slabs, how can you avoid the ribs being over the fire? Don’t the ribs get burnt? I have avoided long cooks, as I don’t know how you can avoid this problem.

Can you do this with wood charcoal?

Wouldn’t it be better if he did this on the off set? Either way great info hope you enjoyed those ribs

I’m giving you a light just because it’s not a circular grill this is the first one that popped up That wasn’t circular

Okay but why is this video informative and jamming?? 🤓🎶 💃🏽

Doesnt the charcoal turning on burn dirty and give a bad taste

Gonna get some cheap charcoal and do a few dry runs to get it right

I couldn’t make it past the music.

Wet wood steams not smokes...

That music ruined it.