The path to serving barbecue in the tiny town of New Berlin seemed clear to Garrett Rabel. He grew up ten minutes down the road in La Vernia, east of San Antonio, where his father, Greg, sold firewood to a few barbecue joints and pizza operations in the area. Father-son deer-hunting trips would culminate in sausage-making marathons at home that involved the whole family. Greg built a steel smoker to cook the sausage, and he served it with pickled cucumbers he’d grown in his garden. When Rabel opened a barbecue truck in La Vernia in 2018, he knew those pickles would be a highlight. To run the truck, he enlisted the help of his family, including his wife, Sarah, and his mother, Denise. A restaurant…The post A Pitmaster Continues the Sausage-Making Legacy of This Small Town appeared first on Texas Monthly.