Bear Bite BBQ

10/24/2026

🎉 Meet the Big Idea 2026 Finalists!

We're excited to introduce Garrett Gass, one of this year's Top 10 Finalists!

💡 Bear Bite BBQ – Garrett is bringing bold flavors to Grand Island with his specialty, small-batch BBQ sauces! After years of developing, sharing, and testing his recipes in competition, Garrett hopes to turn his passion into a locally recognized bottled sauce brand. His vision doesn't stop there, with dreams of eventually expanding Bear Bite BBQ into a mobile BBQ business and beyond!

Join us on Monday, November 2, at The Grand Theatre to cheer on Garrett and our other finalists as they pitch their ideas for a chance to win $10,000!

10/21/2026

We are incredibly excited to share in the announcement that Bear Bite BBQ has been selected as one of the TOP 10 FINALISTS for Big Idea Grand Island 2026! 🎉

We now have an opportunity to take this dream further than we’ve ever taken it before.

On November 2nd, we’ll be stepping onto the stage at The Grand Theatre in downtown Grand Island to pitch our vision for bringing Bear Bite BBQ into major local attention— bigger, better, and with the goal of making our signature sauces available to even more people.

We’re up against some incredible ideas, and we’re proud just to be standing alongside other local entrepreneurs who are chasing their dreams to!

To everyone who’s supported Bear Bite BBQ over the years, this one’s for you..

Let’s see what this bear can do!

We want to show love to all of the people who applied for the 10 Big Idea Grand Island (keep pursuing your big ideas) and to congratulate our 2026 finalists:
Garrett Gass, Sr. with Bear Bite BBQ
Julian Perez with Island Skating
Patrick Vanmeter with Pit Stop Mobile Service
Connor Streit with PolyPath
Amanda Hallock with Racer's Rustic Rags
Tess Bayne with Render House
Andrew Behrle with Roamin' Smoke Mobile Cigar Lounge
Leslie Morales with The Celebration Studio
Mari Boehler with The Link
and
Isabel Rivera with TWENTY-SIX

We look forward to seeing your pitches!

10/20/2026

It's been a while, hasn't it?

Hibernation forcing the way in and the Bear not hearing the alarm or life really but things are happening and that Bear is awake now!

A few years ago, Bear Bite BBQ started with a simple passion: creating bold, unforgettable BBQ sauces packed with flavor and a little attitude.

What started as a passion quickly became something more. Our sauces found their way all over the place! We made sales, started to earn awards, and discovered that maybe this little dream had the potential to become something much bigger than where we were at… But eventually, we hit a crossroads.

Taking Bear Bite BBQ beyond small batches meant learning how to do things the right way.

From production and bottling to the requirements of putting our sauces on store shelves, rather than rush into something we weren't fully prepared for, we stepped back, hunkered down, and wanted to be ready when the time was right…

Life kept moving. Years went by. But the fire? That never died. And neither did the dream.

Today, we're excited to say Bear Bite BBQ is at its awakening again.

We're revisiting our recipes, exploring the next steps toward bringing our sauces to market, and working toward turning something that started right here in Central Nebraska into a business our community can be proud of.

We've still got plenty of work ahead of us, but this time we're determined to see just how far this Bear can go.

And let's just say... there's a pretty exciting reason we're choosing NOW to come out of hibernation.

To everyone who has tried our sauces, supported us, or encouraged us along the way, thank you truly. We wouldn't have made it this far without you, and with what’s to come get ready…

Because the fire is just getting started 🔥 🐻

05/16/2026

I know it’s been forever but we are still alive just not fired up as much yet but we’ll get there 😁