About Jed's Jerky
Some jerky brands start with a marketing deck; Jed's Jerky reads like it started with a stubborn streak. The whole pitch fits on the brand's home page: no shortcuts, no cheap cuts of meat, no rushing the process, no compromise. Jed's Jerky doesn't publish a founding date or a founder's name on its site, so the story it tells is the product itself. The brand says it makes its jerky by hand in small batches from the best cuts of graded American brisket and all natural ingredients. You'll find it sold under its own banner at desert highway stops: Eddieworld in Yermo, California, Death Valley Nut & Candy Co. in Beatty, Nevada, Barstow Station, and Gold Ranch in Verdi, Nevada. The site calls the jerky award-winning, and a five-star quote from Mike Rowe on the home page runs to three words: it's good jerky. The range runs well past brisket into cowboy-style top round, turkey, crisps and wild boar.
What makes Jed's Jerky different
Three badges sit on every Jed's Jerky product page: hand crafted in small batches, all natural ingredients, and high in protein, low in fat. Brisket is the heart of it; the brand says it uses the best cuts of graded American brisket rather than cheap meat, and that it won't rush the process. The cowboy and classic lines take a different cut, thicker slices of top round, which Jed's Jerky describes as simply seasoned and baked, home-style jerky at its finest. A few recipes carry a sense of place: the Memphis BBQ brisket is the brand's take on a Tennessee tradition, and the chipotle bourbon cowboy sets the bourbon's natural vanilla and caramel notes against the chipotle's smoky heat.
Jed's Jerky flavors we carry
Start with brisket. Within our beef jerky selection, the Jed's Jerky brisket cuts run from a sweet, tangy BBQ with what the brand calls a full-bodied aroma, to a sweet teriyaki balancing sweet, salt and citrus, to a lemon pepper with a hint of lemon and the subtle bite of cracked black pepper. The sweet and spicy brisket is the one Jed's Jerky calls award winning and so tender your grandmother could eat it. If you want heat, the Memphis-style brisket leads with citrus, brown sugar and mesquite smoke and finishes with a kick of cayenne and crushed chili pepper; the hot chili pepper brisket has no heat called out on the manufacturer's site beyond its name.
The cowboy and classic lines switch to top round, and you can go thick-cut and home-style in a plain or fiery version, or lighter with hand-cracked black pepper, teriyaki, serious garlic, or that chipotle bourbon. Our spicy beef jerky shelf is where the habanero and Carolina Reaper classics live: the brand says the habanero's smokey heat will have you reaching for a glass of milk, and the Reaper is made for those with a penchant for pain. Thin-sliced, slow-dried cowboy crisps, one made with just beef and sea salt and one pepper-packed, sit with our beef jerky chips. Beyond beef, you get turkey jerky in peppered, teriyaki and Thai chili styles, plus a black peppered wild boar that the brand describes as rich, hearty and lower in fat than beef, shelved with our pork jerky. Everything currently in stock is in the grid above.
Who it's for
If you'd rather have a tender, brisket-forward chew than a tough strip, this is your brand, and the thick-cut cowboy line is for you when you want a little more to sink your teeth into. Heat runs from no heat called out on most of the brisket and the crisps up to habanero and Carolina Reaper, so read the name before you buy. Every product page carries the brand's high in protein, low in fat badge, but Jed's Jerky makes no gluten-free, keto or other dietary claim on its site. It also doesn't publish ingredient panels online, so check the label on the bag for allergens before you order, since each flavor has its own.
JerkyBrands is an independent retailer; the Jed's Jerky name and logo are trademarks of their owner.
