The passion for having a restaurant was still in play, and had grown substantially over the years. With Mexican food being so saturated in our area & region we wanted to focus on an alternative to that. We ended up settling on American barbecue as the choice. Mostly as a hobby we began tinkering with recipes, equipment, and different barbecuing methods that weren’t traditional to the West Coast of the United States, namely smoking meats. However, we weren’t feeling the cheap equipment we were using at the time. This led to looking for an alternative. We’d known about offset smokers that have become more popular nowadays. But, they seemed a little too big for the limited space we had here in the city, and mostly out of our budget. With a little research we stumbled onto barrel smokers.

Then the pandemic lockdown hit us all in 2020, and put another major crimp in the ability to set up anything restaurant related. This was the time when the 4 prominent styles of American bbq and smoking began to gain in popularity out here because of the TV shows and social media that people were tuned into. We felt it was a good time to jump on board. We used the quarantine period to not only perfect our recipes for potential use in a restaurant setting one day in the future, but continued testing and tweaking our drums. We eventually decided we were going to build and sell them while we waited for things to stabilize in our country, because they just cook that good!

Hence, Warrior Drum Smokers was born.

We’re a company who loves our country of the USA, and the freedoms and prosperity it affords us. Love and pride of country has always been important to us. Designing and building these smoker barrels with barbecue being an All-American pastime in mind is why. We also don’t quit and keep fighting for what we believe in, especially when it comes to our country. Rest assured that each and every one of our drums has that warrior spirit built right in. God bless you and God bless America.

“The warrior fighting spirit is crafted into each and every smoker barrel produced.  These drums are great for all levels of BBQ expertise.  From backyard barbecue enthusiasts to competition level cooks……it does not matter!”