Benefits

A NEBS Membership for a single person is a Primary Membership, and costs $35 a year.

You will get access to all the benefits listed on this page.

Become a NEBS Member

These memberships may be used for another: families, friends, teams, or companies. This structure of primary/secondary memberships replaces the old NEBS Family Membership which was restricted to only two people. The new system allows for up to 50 secondary members per primary member.  If you need more than that, contact us.

A secondary member is a full NEBS member, with voting privileges, the ability to sign up for members-only events, access to the members only areas of the web site, etc. The only thing the secondary member does not receive is the National Barbecue News publication. If you want someone to receive that, they need to be signed up as a primary member themselves.

$5 per year per each secondary member.

Secondary memberships are tied to the primary member's status.

If the primary member allows their membership to expire, the secondary memberships expire as well.

Primary members receive a subscription to our newsletter the National Barbecue News.  This is available in both a hardcopy and digital form, and published every other month.  The National Barbecue News contains information from NEBS, other regional barbecue associations, and items of national interest in the barbecue community.

The NEBS Team of the Year is a recognition program for regional competitors.  Competitors entering KCBS, NEBS Classic, NEBS Tailgate, and Kid's Q contests are honored and recognized for their achievements.   There is also recognition for the best new team under the Rookie of the Year program.   NEBS Team of the Year awards occur at the annual NEBS meeting in January, and require annual registration to participate.   Please see the rules on this website for details.

Some vendors offer discounts to NEBS members.   Check this site frequently for details.

NEBS Members receive voting privileges to determine the composition of the Board of Directors and potentially other issues that affect NEBS.   All members are allowed to vote, including primary and secondary members.

NEBS helps organizers create and draw BBQ competitors, judges, and the general public to contests and other types of BBQ events.  NEBS works with both Kansas City Barbecue Society sanctioned events that occur in the northeast, as well as sanctioning our own outdoor cooking and grilling, tailgate, and Kid's Q events.   The NEBS Sanctioning Committee provides advice and cook's packet review services for contest organizers.

NEBS encourages connections between the general public, BBQ competitors, judges, contest organizers, and food service vendors.  Our online forum and social events help keep you connected to the BBQ scene in the northeast.

NEBS is a 501(c)3 non-profit.   Our primary mission is to encourage the BBQ lifestyle and to educate and communicate items of interest the BBQ community.  NEBS also donate to and perform volunteer work for other qualified non-profits both nationally and in the northeast, especially when those non-profits use BBQ as a way of achieving their own mission. 

NEBS is a 501(c)3 non-profit, and your membership may be tax deductible.  Please check with your tax preparer.