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NEW: GET SMOKIN’ GOOD BBQ SHIPPED NATIONWIDE
4 Rivers Smokehouse On the Road brings our award-winning Smokehouse experience straight to your home. Our signature Meats, Sauces, and Rubs, are soon to be your kitchen essentials for BBQ fans and practicing pitmasters alike. Choose one of our curated bundles, or individual items from a selection of our most popular protein items, and must-have retail. 
The Art of Smoking
30-day wet-aged beef brisket rubbed with our 4R Brisket Rub and smoked for 18 hours. Hand sliced to order.
Seasoned with 4R All Purpose Rub and smoked to perfection. Enjoy on the bone or pulled and tossed in 4R Signature Sauce.
Classic pulled pork from bone-in pork shoulder rubbed with our 4R All Purpose Rub and smoked for 12 hours until fork-tender.
A Few 4R Favorites
Burnt Ends Melt
Smokehouse Burnt Ends with provolone & cheddar cheese topped with caramelized onions on sliced sourdough bread.
Six Shooter
Baked cheese grits piled high with pulled pork, Southern Coleslaw, pickles, jalapeños and 4R Signature Sauce.
BBQ Quesadilla
Your choice of meat, cheddar cheese and 4R Signature Sauce on a tortilla and grilled to perfection.
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4R Wherever You Are
Enjoy 4 Rivers Sauces and foods at home, at work, and all year long.
Visit the ShopOur Beginnings
4 Rivers Smokehouse began with the launch of the “Barbecue Ministry” in 2004, when John hosted a cookout fundraiser to support a local family whose young daughter was battling cancer. This one event resulted in a passion for supporting local schools, churches, and charitable organizations, and a few years later, smoking thousands of pounds of meat out of a garage just wouldn’t cut it anymore.
After trials, tribulations, and a whole lot of burnt ends, we finally flipped that “Hot Brisket Now” sign on in October of 2009. Within the first hour, a line had formed out the door and then around the corner. Read More
Awards and Recognition
Rivers’ concept immediately attracted local and national recognition, with two invitations to cook at the prestigious James Beard House in NYC, four consecutive invitations to present at the 2011 – 2014 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival, and appearances on NBC and FOX morning shows. He’s also been celebrated by USA Today, Paula Deen Magazine, FOOD Magazine, Cooking Light, Food & Wine, Cigar Aficionado, Restaurant Business, and TravelandLesiure.com, and named a finalist for the 2013 Florida Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2014, John Rivers published The Southern Cowboy Cookbook, a kitchen masterpiece that’s destined to become a classic. 4 Rivers was named Best BBQ in the Southeast by Southern Living Magazine in 2021 and one of the Best BBQ brands in the US in 2023 by Eat This, Not That.