The World's Best Pastrami is Back! Deli Fans Rejoice! Ultra premium pastrami company Ugly Drum makes its long awaited return. Ugly Drum will be available via mail order service Goldbelly and at Cofax Coffee in their breakfast burritos.
"Smoked. Meat. Nirvana."
- Los Angeles Magazine
So what makes Ugly Drum pastrami so much better than everyone else's? It was created as a personal passion project by Erik Black as a hybridized technique, combining his homemade classic Jewish pastrami brine with Texas-style pit-smoking. That means whole USDA Prime grade briskets, brined for several days, then pit-smoked over low, indirect heat with whole logs of oak and pecan wood for at least 10 hours. Previously available only out of Erik's oil drum smoker (the "Ugly Drum") at Smorgasburg LA, this Texas pastrami with a cult following is now just a click away.
