Next week marks the launch of our brand new website! www.heatbeads.com received a makeover recently, so keep your eyes peeled for the attractive, easy to use design that will be launched next Wednesday, November 5!

Weber has just launched the new Weber® Char Q® BBQ in the US. This very portable and slightly cute new unit is a new addition to Weber’s extremely popular ‘Q range’ of BBQ’s, which was until now exclusively fuelled by gas. Paired together with a bag of Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes, the Weber® Char Q® BBQ provides the ideal time for BBQing, whether camping in the great outdoors or celebrating over the Melbourne Cup Weekend!

With the Spring Racing Carnival in full bloom and Melbourne Cup Day only around the corner, it is an ideal time to enjoy a few drinks, a sweep or two and a BBQ. Char grilling everyone’s favourite BBQ recipes is sure to keep them happy during the race that stops the nation!

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If you have any special Cup Day traditions or BBQ recipes, why not leave us a comment?

Last week the Heat Beads team had a lot of fun whipping up charred delights for a photo shoot. Our new website will soon be live and was in need of a new look. It was such fun having a great reason to BBQ our favourite recipes, and have the cameras on us as we cooked!

We are sure the new website will inspire all our heatbeads.com visitors to fine tune their grill skills over Heat Beads®BBQ Briquettes!

The shoot was a great success, giving our Heat Beads® website a well-deserved make over and refreshed look. Can’t wait for you to see our new look site with its modern, clean design and easy to navigate pages. Soon there’ll be even more reasons to visit www.heatbeads.com to find the latest news, your favourite BBQ recipes or instructional videos on how to light your Heat Beads®BBQ Briquettes. Check in from November 1st.

The Heat Beads® team likes do our bit for the community. So, when the Latrobe Regional Hospital recently hosted its Platinum Ball at the Premiere function centre in Traralgon, we jumped at the opportunity to donate a prize for its fund raising auction. This fantastic and entertaining evening raised a total of $133,000 to be directed to the Gippsland Cancer Care Centre! This is a whopping $59,000 up on the funds raised at last year’s event.

The silent auction was a highlight, raising a grand total of $34, 600! Heat Beads® donated its brand new Entertainer BBQ and coordinated with local businesses to create the ultimate BBQ package that would light any char grill enthusiast’s fire! The package contained the below items and sold for a bargain $1,900 to Wight’s Motor World.

* Heat Beads® Solid Fuel Entertainer BBQ
* 8 X 4kg bags of Heat Beads(r) BBQ Briquettes
* 6 piece Elwood Patio Setting
* Gasmate Outdoor Patio Heater
* Qualified Chef from Neilsons Restaurant: for one perfect BBQ!
* Salads for 6: Courtesy of Neilsons Restaurant
* $50 meat voucher: Courtesy of Hyland Street Butchers

Apparently there is more than one way to build a BBQ, as heard on Sunday night on the Cooda Beens on ABC Radio. One listener who spent a lot of time in New Caledonia where BBQ’s are scarce says truck rims make an excellent BBQ base. When filled with Heat Beads^® BBQ Briquettes and topped with a grill plate, they provide a cost effective option. They are said to last up to two years due to the thickness of the steel.

This brilliant flash of inspiration got us at the Heat Beads^® Headquarters thinking what other pre-loved items we knew of, that are used to produce a make-shift BBQ. To name just a few:

- A VW Golf Trailer as featured in our blog a few weeks ago, click here to find out more.
- An old washing machine drum
- An old wood fire oven

What do you think? Why not leave a comment with your flash of BBQ brilliance?

Heat Beads® Briquettes, as contestants at the Redesdale Tavern Camp Oven Cook-Off recently discovered, are fantastic for use whilst you’re in the wilderness. When you’re camping it can be difficult to serve something for dinner that doesn’t involve a can of baked beans or burnt sausages.

But it doesn’t have to be that way… just because you’re camping doesn’t mean you have to forsake the gourmet.

We recently stumbled across this great little invention from the US, a portable charcoal BBQ - Son of Hibachi. It’s ideal for outdoor use with Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes and comes with its very own ’snuff out pouch’, a heat proof bag. You don’t have to wait for the BBQ to cool completely before packing up, simply place in the bag and it will extinguish your Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes so that they can be re-used.

To find out more, check out this video:

…and in other news The Heat Beads® Team got into the spirit of the AFL grand final last Friday with a BBQ of our own. We ate delights char grilled to perfection including a delicious spit roast and saganaki (see pictures below).

These types of meals show just some of the range that can be BBQ’d using Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes. For your chance to win a Heat Beads® Entertainer BBQ, enter our Spring BBQ Video Competition - to find out more click here.