Boulder charcoal grill startup raises $7M

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After living in Kenya for a couple of years, Ben West fell in love with cooking with wooden charcoal.

And when he moved back to his hometown of Portland, Oregon, in 2015 an idea sparked in his mind.

“I saw there was this renaissance of going back to wooden charcoal in restaurants across the country, and I really wanted to continue cooking that way myself,” West said. “But I learned that 80 percent of grill outs are with propane even though people know that cooking with wooden charcoal tastes a…