Texas Monthly blazes a trail to state’s barbecue capital for 2022 fest

The Lone Star State’s famous annual “meat” up event hosted by barbecue authority Texas Monthly is firing up a smokin’ new location for its expanded BBQ Fest this fall. Texas Monthly’s 13th annual BBQ Fest, which has long been hosted in Austin and features a dizzying variety of pitmasters and barbecue brainiacs, is moving to a new locale just 70 miles northeast of San Antonio — Lockhart, aka the official barbecue capital of Texas –…