The tradition of barbecue in the South began as a means of feeding large families and farm workers by way of relatively easy-to-care-for livestock, and has continued to feed generations of residents and visitors in Georgia’s Historic Heartland region through the decades.
Southern cooks and their families proudly serve time tested one-of-a-kind recipes at their restaurants. Take, for example, the famous barbecue at Old Clinton BBQ’s original location in Gray, opened in 1958 and now run by the founding family’s third generation.
Georgia Bob’s began cooking up delicious fare at peach festivals in the 1920s and has been serving hungry heartland visitors their original recipe Brunswick stew ever since. Fincher’s Barbecue, famous for going into outer space with NASA in 1989, has been prepared according to a family recipe for three generations.
Check out the Georgia Brews and Q’s Trail brochure for more information on each restaurant, brewery and growler shop on the trail and be sure to ask them about their multi-generation family history when you stop in.