Brisket, smoked meat loaf, pork ribs, sausage, elotes, pasta salad, Texas twinkies and smoked bread pudding at Weaver's BBQ in Kenefick

Jesse Weaver at Weaver's BBQ in Kenefick

Brisket and smoked meat loaf at Weaver's BBQ in Kenefick

If you spent any time on the West Coast in the early 2010s, you may have crossed paths with Jesse Weaver.

He may have been the guy on the street corner in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco busking (singing) for a donation, or hanging out with a troop of aspiring comedians selling jokes to passersby for a quarter (they were called the “Quarter Joke Crew” if that rings a bell).

This is the story of how a Spring native went from traveling around the West Coast to making some of the best barbecue in Southeast Texas from a trailer in the parking lot of a gas station in the small town of Kenefick.

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