A Passion for Outdoor Cooking

Built To Burn

Experience charcoal cooking at its finest. Lyon Built drum smokers offer the best BBQ flavours with no power required. Simply light the charcoal, add wood chunks for smoke flavour, and enjoy competition level BBQ in your own back yard. Taste flavours that other style smokers just aren’t capable of.  

Our smokers are built right here in the Canadian Kootenays. 

From beginners to grand champions, experience incredible smoke flavour with our easy to use drum smokers. 

We decided to stick with the OG style look of the classic UDS (Ugly Drum Smoker). 

The ribbed barrel design pays respect to where it all started, but with elevated features to improve quality and ease of use. 

Offering standard user friendly features like our easy to read, high quality 3" MIDWEST HEARTH temperature gauge, lockable caster wheels and foldable wood side tables. Our wood is sourced right here in the Kootenays.

Drum smokers adopt the “hot & fast” style cooking.  No more waking up at 1 am to put your brisket on your pellet grill.   

Now you can wake up and have your coffee before you have to worry about starting to cook.   

Drum smokers act like a convection style oven. Air enters the drum from the bottom through the air vents. It then circulates upwards, eliminating any hot spots. 

Your meat remains moist from meat drippings falling into the hot coals. Creating an extremely flavourful steam like environment. 

Cook anything you can dream of. From competition meats like brisket and pork butt. To a quick weeknight meal like burgers or a tasty steak. And everything in between like Shepherd's pie, or a fresh batch of homemade buns. If you can cook it in an oven, you can cook it in one of our smokers.  

Try one today!!!! 

Coming soon.  Our Back country drum.

Built for fire. Built for flavor. Built to last.

 

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Lyon Built

The OG Drum Smoker

$1,850.00 CAD
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Lyon Built

The LB Glizzy Grate

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$175.00 CAD
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What Our Customers Say

Real reviews from real customers

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I love this smoker so much… I bought a second one 🔥 I actually got rid of my propane BBQ because it was just collecting dust. Ever since switching to a drum smoker, it’s all we use. The flavour is unreal and the versatility surprised me. So far I’ve cooked brisket, ribs, chicken, pulled pork, burgers, appetizers, and even shepherd’s pie — and everything turns out amazing. It holds heat beautifully, is easy to use, and makes cooking fun again instead of feeling like a chore. If you love that slow-smoked flavour and want something you can cook almost anything on, this style of smoker is 100% worth it.

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Mike Knoll

Saskatchewan

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I bought one of the OG drum smokers from Wade a few years ago and I couldn’t be happier with it. There’s something about cooking on it that really takes barbecue back to basics. No unnecessary gadgets, no complicated controls, just fire, smoke, and good food. It strips everything down to the fundamentals of cooking, and that’s exactly what makes it so enjoyable. The Lyon Built drum holds temperature beautifully and produces a clean, consistent smoke. Once it’s dialed in you let it do it's thing. The airflow system is simple but effective, making it easy to manage even for someone newer to drum smoking. The taste is absolutely amazing. Deep, rich, smoky, and authentic. Whether it’s brisket, ribs, or chicken, everything comes off with that perfect bark and juicy interior that you just can’t replicate with other styles of cooking. If you’re looking to get back to real, hands-on barbecue and experience smoking the way it was meant to be, the Lyon Built drum smoker is a fantastic choice. It’s simple, solid, and delivers incredible results every time.

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Paul Saffery

Saskatchewan

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I’ll be honest… when my husband first bought our drum smokers, I thought they were *his* thing. Fast forward to now — we loved them so much we have one at home and another at the lake! What surprised me the most is how easy they are to use. I can run them completely on my own without feeling intimidated, and that says a lot because BBQing used to feel like something I left to him. These smokers are our go-to for everything, and they get used constantly, winter or summer. The flavour is next level, but beyond that, they’ve completely changed how we cook and entertain. They’ve raised the bar on BBQ for us, and honestly… there’s no going back. I can’t imagine cooking any other way now.

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Lindsay Sterling

Saskatchewan

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Where It All Started

The early spring of 2022 Wade found himself in a BBQ cooking class with Rob Reinhardt, of Prairie Smoke and Spice, where he instantly fell in love with the cooking style.

Soon after he began researching and researching some more on how to make drum smokers. He built two. One for himself and one for his close friend and neighbor. On a whim, they decided to enter a local KCBS competition (unsanctioned), with no experience. Just a desire to cook, share a beverage and be surrounded by close friends, family and passionate BBQ people. And over the next few years they won multiple categories.

He spent the summer of 2022 perfecting the smokers and selling them to 17 people on the Prairies.

The spring and summer of 2024, was spent living in the east Kootenays near his childhood best friend, Danny. Of course the OG smoker came out and he cooked many meals for Danny, his family and new friends. The usual review from that time was - "this is by far the best brisket I have ever eaten".

Lyon Built was dreamt up in the fall of 2025, and officially came to life in January of 2026. Wade, his wife Paula, and Danny knew for sure that the OG Ambrose Smokers that began in the garage in Saskatchewan, had to become a Lyon Built Product.

This is Wade's Passion.

Much of the design will remain the same with other additional products added as we perfect them!