BW's Smokin' Barrels Barbecue — Restaurant in Town of Hamburg

We found this place about 7 or 8 years ago. My wife had ordered from them for my 50th back in 2015 and the food was great. Since then we have eaten in the restaurant once and had 2 or 3 takeout orders from them over the years.

This weekend we celebrated my parents 60th wedding anniversary and decided to have a BBQ in the park. After looking at BBQ places near by I saw they were still open. We decided to go with them and were not disappointed! There were 15 of us so the catering would have been too much but on their normal menu, they have a section where you can buy in bulk.

We ordered the two bucket chicken and ribs special, 2lbs a brisket and 2lbs of pulled pork along with Mac&Cheese, Beans and Sweet Tater fries. Everyone LOVED the food!!! The ribs were fall off the bone, melt in your mouth tender, the brisket was also very tender and the pulled pork was delicious. The sides were great too but just to note, the fries do not travel well as we had a shelter at Ellicott Creek park. They were still good, just got a little mushy when they got cold but that is on me. :-)

We have tried other BBQ places over the years and while some are good and others are inconsistent, it is nice to see this place holing true to their standards!!!

My 80+yr old parents had a great time and chowed down on the food as did the rest of the guests. The food made the party complete! I highly recommend BW's to anyone looking to have a...

I cannot believe this BBQ place is rated as high as it is, it was simply bad. I had the half chicken two sides and a small side of their brisket to give it a try. Let’s start with the overall, not sure how they do it but they manage to get zero wood smell or taste into their meats. The brisket was tender, but had zero smoke ring on it or bark, it was a grey mass of meat. I feel bad for the poor cow that gave its life to make this abomination what what this place calls BBQ. Two day old pot roast warmed up in a microwave is better than what I had. Now on to the chicken. It had a nice char on it but again no smell or taste that would give you the impression it interacted with wood. I saw on the menu they charge extra for white meat. I did not do that and I am very thankful of that choice. It took a 16 oz bottle of water to get the breast down. It was so dried out I am pretty sure it was shelf stable. For sides I got the coleslaw and veg of the day. Coleslaw was average and the corn was very starchy and had zero flavor.

The only bright spot was their BBQ sauce. It was the only thing that had any smoke flavor. It was not too sweet and nice. I would actually purchase it. Nice job on the sauce, your stars are based on it.

One final note, I order takeout to bring to my hotel room. When I got back I noticed there were no utensils or napkins. Luckily the...

The staff here are great, the waitress we had was very good. Drinks stayed full, she was polite and didn't rush us.

The food was just alright, brisket had no bark, was under seasoned and didn't have much if any smoke taste. No visible smoke ring. I know the smoke ring means little, but normally its at least visible.

The ribs were over cooked and falling apart, charred on the top, sauced on the top but NO rub or sauce on the underside (pic attached of rib underside). They came as a full slab, the crust on the top was so hard and the meat so over cooked that they just fell apart when cutting. They tasted okay, the BBQ sauce they have is great. As is the variety of the sauces they have. 4-5 different typed to choose from. The Carolina sauce is awesome.

The sides were all lacking. We had the garlic mash, mac and cheese and the baked beans. The baked beans were the best of all three. Mash and mac and cheese were all very bland. The gravy helped the mash but it did taste like pre-made gravy. Mac and cheese tasted like nothing. Everything missing salt.

They did seem to have a lot of staff, and they just gathered by the bathroom it seemed. Kind of made it awkward to go to the bathroom.

All and all id skip this, you can make better ribs in your oven and make a chuck roast that tastes better than the brisket. After paying $55+ for two people we should have went...