Beetles BBQ Awards
Townelaker Magazine
Reader's Choice Awards, 2005
Best BBQ
Best Lunch Place
Best Caterer
Taste of Marietta, 2004
Grill Master
Kennesaw BBQ Contest, 2003
1st Place Pork BBQ
1st Place Beef Brisket
2nd Place Brunswick Stew
Beaux-Arts BBQ Cook Off, 2002
5th Place Whole Hog
Stone Mountain Wing Fling, 1994
1st Place Grand Champion, Hot and Not so Hot
How Beetles BBQ got started.
Former owner Bill Beadle was driving to Knoxville, Tennessee in a former life as a food salesman when he passed a well used, 1973 VW Super Beetle with a tow bar on the front and a $150 asking price printed on the windshield. A crazy idea occured to him, to the Beetle, which he did for only $50, and convert it into a smoker/BBQ cooking device/trailer.
Employing the services of two local iron workers as they built the Beetle cooker. The the floors were cut out and replaced this with 3/8 inch cold roll steel, and yes, this baby is heavy. Then then built removable shelves inside the driver and passenger doors, and made a shelf and platform for roasting whole pigs in the back seat. We finished with a smoke stack out of the front windshield area and sheet metal cut into the windows to replace the glass. When all was said and done, His little quest, had yielded a very good BBQ smoker which can cook 200 pounds of Fresh Hams as well as a 130 pound hog in the back seat.
With his son, Wills, He started selling barbecue on the side of the road, for about 9 weeks one summer and then at the Woodstock High School football games one fall. It was late that fall, in November of 2001, he decided to open up Beetles BBQ on January 7, 2002.
January 1, 2012 Bill retired from BBQ and sold Beetle's. His recipes carry on as Bill heads off to new adventures.
