Pitmaster and owner chef Mike Young offers competition BBQ favorites and scrumptious side dishes! Our Story
A Father's Day gift that turned into a business venture 8 years later. In 2013, I got Mike a Father’s Day gift along with my dad to attend a BBQ smoking class hosted by a Champion Pitmaster. Mike loved it so much that on the way home he went and bought a Rocky Mountain Smoker. In the ensui
ng years we experimented with different kinds of meat, sides and flavors of wood. We played around with times and temps that cooked each cut of meat best. Our family and friends were involved in the experiments much to their delight and sometimes not so much a delight. We started cooking for family events and holidays. When our church asked if we would cater some events, we found out that we could cook for a large crowd of people. After family and friends kept telling us we should sell what we made, Mike decided a career change was in order. Mike took an interest in building smokers and started doing that in his spare time. The first smoker was finished in early 2019. Once we decided to get a food trailer, he started working on a new one that sits on the trailer’s porch. While working on the new smoker we took all the things we were doing and Smokey Bonez BBQ went from a pipe dream to a reality. We are super excited to start this new adventure that wouldn’t be possible without the help from our awesome family, whom we love so much, and have no problem telling us if what we cook is not “On Point”. Another key to success is our great friends who helped taste test, especially the two wonderful ladies we worked with. One whose talent for detail is making our trailer look awesome and the other who used her talent online. With God, family and good friends anything is possible
Carey Awe-Young
