About Boozy Jerky
Boozy Jerky is what happens when two jerky-industry veterans decide the world doesn’t need another me-too bag. By the brand’s own telling, it began in a kitchen with tender cuts of meat and cases of craft beer. It started as an idea in 2018 between two entrepreneurs from different corners of the beef jerky business. One had developed private label jerky for wineries and breweries in California. The other had spent five years gathering consumer jerky preferences while building a direct-to-consumer jerky subscription company. Out of those backgrounds came Boozy Jerky, which bills itself as the original booze-infused beef jerky. The site doesn’t name the founders.
What makes Boozy Jerky different
Boozy Jerky says it infuses craft beers from America’s greatest craft breweries, along with its own unique ingredients, so each flavor opens up with the right drink. The recipes are tied to named producers: Breckenridge Distillery’s Colorado bourbon and Frey Ranch’s Four-Grain Straight Bourbon Whiskey from Northern Nevada go into the whiskey brisket, and Lift Bridge Brewery in Stillwater, Minnesota, supplies the Mango Blonde Ale in the mango habanero. The meat is brisket, described as small batch and tender cooked. Although it’s made with real craft booze, the brand is upfront that it won’t get you drunk; the jerky contains no residual alcohol.
Boozy Jerky flavors we carry
If beer is your drink, start there. The IPA-infused brisket runs from a teriyaki the brand calls sweet and tender to a citrus version it describes as meat with heat. There’s a pilsner-infused rosemary and garlic brisket finished in a buttery steakhouse style, a stout-infused peppered brisket the manufacturer points toward stouts and porters, and a lager-infused brisket with Montreal-style spices under a maple syrup glaze. An ale-infused mango habanero brings what the brand calls sweet heat. If you’d rather pair with spirits, the tequila brisket is marinated with pineapple and serrano peppers, and the bourbon brisket splits between a smooth Breckenridge-infused bag and a Frey Ranch version with a spicy back end. Nearly everything here is brisket, so it sits in the beef jerky collection; the bacon is the exception and lives with the rest of the bacon jerky. Pepper fans can also browse the peppered beef jerky, and sweet-heat fans the sweet and spicy beef jerky. Everything currently in stock is in the grid above.
Who it’s for
Heat lives at the habanero, serrano, citrus IPA and Frey Ranch bourbon end of the range; no heat is called out for the teriyaki, rosemary garlic or Breckenridge bourbon. Expect a tender chew. Several flavors carry a GLUTEN FREE call-out, and the mango habanero is described as keto-friendly and paleo-friendly, but those statements are made flavor by flavor. None of the product pages publish a Contains line or ingredient list, so allergens can’t be confirmed from the site.
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