In 2017, shortly after getting a thousand-gallon smoker from BBQ Pits by Klose, Dee Dee and Troy Mulligan put the device to good use. Hurricane Harvey had hit the Gulf Coast, and the Mulligans fed hot barbecue and sides to four hundred people who were affected. It was the most barbecue Troy had ever smoked at once, and Dee Dee said it was during this time that the couple’s vision for 3rd Coast BBQ “became a tiny thought on down the line.”The smoker, dubbed the 3C Beast, is now a fixture at the couple’s joint, in Spring, about half an hour north of Houston. The business began in 2018 as a pop-up out of a small bakery in Montgomery, north of Spring. In 2019 the…