About Borracho Jerky
Borracho Jerky started on June 1, 2002, when Rosie Limon and son opened it as a retail establishment. As sales improved, they wanted to sell to local stores, so the brand applied for a state inspection. Its jerky is now in bars and businesses across southwest and east Texas. The retail shop at 713 Talbot Ave. in Canutillo, Texas, still opens on Saturdays from 11am to 5pm. The site’s copyright line names Borracho Products LLC.
What makes Borracho Jerky different
Every ingredient list the brand posts opens the same way: beef, water, and a marinade built on natural hickory smoke, vinegar, salt, onion, garlic and red chile. Borracho Jerky describes its original flavor as slow cooked and marinated, the one that started it all. The flavors it labels new are tied to named bottles: one uses the original Louisiana Hot Sauce, the other Valentina, which the brand calls an authentic hot sauce made in Mexico. Its arbol-and-lemon flavor took best spicy jerky in an El Paso contest in 2022 and 2023, according to the brand, and lemon pepper is billed as the best seller.
Borracho Jerky flavors we carry
If you want mild, the brand’s own guidance sends you to its chile de arbol flavor, which it calls its mildest: not too hot, just enough kick to make you reach for your beer. From there the heat climbs through jalapeno, which the brand ranks second hottest and makes with the hottest jalapenos it can find, up to habanero, described as very hot and meant for true chili eaters. Several flavors layer lemon on the chile: lemon juice and lemon pepper with jalapeno, a hint of lemon with a lot of arbol spice, and citrus with habanero heat. The hot-sauce flavors lean on a Louisiana bottle and a Mexican one, and the brand recommends the Louisiana style, like the original, for Clamatos. If you’d rather skip the chile, lemon pepper pairs tangy lemon juice with zesty black pepper. Browse more spicy beef jerky, habanero beef jerky and jalapeno beef jerky if heat is the draw, or go lighter in the peppered beef jerky collection and the full beef jerky range. Everything currently in stock is in the grid above.
Who it’s for
Expect heat on most of the range: only the chile de arbol is described as mild, and the brand says its habanero is meant to make your mouth hurt. The manufacturer’s site doesn’t describe texture or chew. It makes no gluten-free, keto, halal or kosher statements. Soy runs through the posted ingredient lists (hydrolyzed soy protein, soy sauce in the jalapeno flavor, soybean oil), the Louisiana and Valentina flavors list monosodium glutamate and yellow lake #5, and the limon flavors post no ingredient list, so read those labels.
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