This article is about how I built my vertical brick BBQ smoker. It wasn’t very difficult to do, it cost me only about $200, and it works quite well as a medium-large-capacity BBQ (does 50–75 pounds of ...

If you were an aspiring barbecue pitmaster 60 years ago, you had one choice of barbecue pit. You hand-built a rectangular brick pit with an "offset" firebox on one end and a smokestack on the other, ...

Smoke drifts across the hills of Eureka before you even spot the red-roofed sign. It’s an aroma that settles deep, a promise ...

I stood next to a steel smoker outside a small barbecue joint several years back while watching a pitmaster retrieve the meats I’d just ordered. He opened a door on a smoking cabinet to fetch the ...

Barbecue buffs on the trail of The Taste Smokers mobile pit know that where there’s smoke, there’s bound to be smoked ribs, brisket, chicken and other mouthwatering eats. Pit master Quartez Moore and ...