Here at Emmett’s Meats, formerly Keyser Creek Smoked Meats, we believe in the delicacy of our dry-aged meats and the special feeling that we get from sharing our best with our community. As a family owned and operated local meat shop in Columbus, Montana, we sell a variety of locally sourced and naturally processed meats from our family to your family.
Our family has been in the meat business for over twenty years, so we know good meat when we see it. But more than that, we’re a family-run business that is deeply embedded in the local community of Columbus, Montana. We know our meats and our community, and we’re proud of both.
At Emmett’s Meats, our USDA premium meats line our shelves from top to bottom and are so delicious that we have customers that drive hours just to pick up our meats.
1. Our Ranchers: We cultivate strong relationships with our ranching partners, choosing only the ones that we trust deeply to help us create our award-winning smoked meats, summer sausage, pork sausage, and beef jerky (which is often touted as the best beef jerky in Montana).
2. Our Method: Our meats come straight from the Stillwater Packing Co, where all the meat is processed naturally. No chemicals are used and no sprays are allowed. Instead, we dry age our meats for two weeks which gives them their robust flavor and mouthwatering appeal.
3. Our Values: We want the best for you, our customers, which means we go to great lengths to satisfy. We promise that when you call, you’ll get a human being instead of a machine. We promise that we’ll ship on time and when we say we will. And we promise that our meats will be overseen by us from the moment they arrive at our processing plant to the moment you walk out of the store with them. We’re small and proud of it.
Emmett’s Meats (formerly Keyser Creek Smoked Meats) opened its doors in 2000 to serve a growing demand in the Columbus, Montana community for fresh, local meat. Six years earlier, our family had acquired Stillwater Packing Co, yet the demand for fresh, local meat from our neighbors in Columbus, Red Lodge, Billings, and beyond was more than we could keep up with there.
In order to better serve our community and our patrons, we opened a retail location, Keyser Creek Smoked Meats, to keep up with the demand. In 2014, we changed our name to Emmett’s Meats, our family’s name, and took off running.
Today, we carry a full line of Montana meats, including beef sticks, smoked sausage, beef sausage, pork sausage, fresh beef steaks, and much more.
As the retail store that initially only carried the meats that we processed at Stillwater Packing Company, we have since expanded into providing a retail home for the goods of local artisans and craftsmen. We like to support local businesses, just like our customers do. Stop in to see us and check them out.