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SMALL BUSINESS MATTERS
HILL COUNTRY
hallmark
Craftsmanship and quality define a new generation
of meat masters at Klein Smokehaus
BY STEVE KRUT | meatpoult r y@sosland.com
I
n the town of Boerne, Texas, about
20 miles northwest of San Antonio,
Colton Sells and Clayton Klein,
co-owners of Klein Smokehaus, have
a reputation for quality meats and
cleanliness that they refer to as 'Pure
Texas German.'
Don't be fooled by the fact that
the business partners took over a
seven-decade-old meat processing
business just over a year ago. They are
on the cutting edge of using top-shelf
craftsmanship and understanding the
wants and wishes of their Hill Country
clientele to assure that they'll be
around for generations to come.
SIMPLE ORIGINS
The business was established as a
grocery store in 1950 by the Waldeck
family. By 1976, population sprawl
from the San Antonio area brought
chain supermarkets to their town and
it was downsized to a custom and retail
meat shop under the banner of Farmers
Meat Market.
Fast forward to 2006 when a Hill
Country native named Barret Klein
bought the facility and used his
expertise as a Texas A&M University
animal science graduate, a meat
science master's degree holder from
Colorado State University, and industry
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experience to bring new ideas to the
meat shop in Boerne.
The emphasis was on smoked
meats and German-style dried
sausages, but the guiding light was
that the shop always harked back to a
simpler time when a meat shop owner
knew every customer by their name
and face.
Clayton Klein, youngest son of
Barret and his wife Claire, grew up
in the business, or quite literally in
the meat locker. From a young age he
spent after-school hours and weekends
hanging, skinning, grinding and
packaging deer. Following graduation
Photos: Klein Smokehaus

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