The Shiner Gazette
Maeker's Sausage
Shiner
Business

One of their best years yet...

For WURST!

With big wins under their belts for their little meat processing company at sausage industry events all over the map earlier this summer, things couldn’t get much better for Shiner natives Doug & Melanie Nevlud 

 

  • Maeker's owners, the Nevlud family, including from left Doug and Melanie Nevlud, daughter Bethany and son Hunter.
    Maeker's owners, the Nevlud family, including from left Doug and Melanie Nevlud, daughter Bethany and son Hunter.
  • Maeker's original smoked country sausage is still made with the same century-old family recipe that they started with 50 years ago.
    Maeker's original smoked country sausage is still made with the same century-old family recipe that they started with 50 years ago.
  • Gustavo Rivas hard at work on the meat saw.
    Gustavo Rivas hard at work on the meat saw.
  • Almost everything is automated these days on the production floor.
    Almost everything is automated these days on the production floor.
  • ...to their smoker, as Daniel Quilpas demonstrates here, to the massive coolers the links get taken to next to instantly cool the product and prepare it for packaging.
    ...to their smoker, as Daniel Quilpas demonstrates here, to the massive coolers the links get taken to next to instantly cool the product and prepare it for packaging.
  • Speaking of packaging, this machine slides a single sheet of plastic down, heats it just to make six large bubble impressions that the sausages are slid into and sealed, ready for boxing and travel to the store locations.
    Speaking of packaging, this machine slides a single sheet of plastic down, heats it just to make six large bubble impressions that the sausages are slid into and sealed, ready for boxing and travel to the store locations.
  • Which could be just beyond the door of Doug Nevlud's office, there at the Shiner plant, where they provide all sorts of custom meat cuts as well as their favorite sausages, to grocery stores all over Texas.
    Which could be just beyond the door of Doug Nevlud's office, there at the Shiner plant, where they provide all sorts of custom meat cuts as well as their favorite sausages, to grocery stores all over Texas.
  • They can custom cut any meat order as well as provide complete onsite animal processing.
    They can custom cut any meat order as well as provide complete onsite animal processing.
  • Along with custom hog and steer processing, Maeker's also stands ready to help you process whatever you might bring back home from deer camp.
    Along with custom hog and steer processing, Maeker's also stands ready to help you process whatever you might bring back home from deer camp.
  • Maekers and owner Doug Nevlud both turned tuirned 50 this year, and both look forward to serving Shiner's meat needs for the next half century with the same emphasis on quality that Tinky Maeker started when he launched the brand.
    Maekers and owner Doug Nevlud both turned tuirned 50 this year, and both look forward to serving Shiner's meat needs for the next half century with the same emphasis on quality that Tinky Maeker started when he launched the brand.
Doug Nevlud, you could say, is having quite the banner year, especially for a man in his line of work. Nevlud and his wife, Melanie, are the owners and operators of Maeker’s Sausage in Shiner, having purchased the hometown meat processing business and sausage company in late 2015 from Robert “Tinky” Maeker himself. Maeker provided the namesake to their signature sausages and specialty meats that…

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