About Jerky Junction
Some jerky brands tell a long story on their website; Jerky Junction mostly lets the bag do the talking. The label traces the brand back to 1992, when it began crafting small-batch jerky as a family-owned business. According to the manufacturer, production has stayed hands-on and craft-based since then, and the second generation of the family now leads Jerky Junction. Carson City, Nevada is the home it names today, where the packaging says the jerky is made in a USDA-certified factory. Jerky Junction’s website is brief at the moment: a note on fresh ingredients, a line for wholesale and private-label inquiries, and word that an exotic line, alligator and ostrich among them, is on the way. Jerky Junction says quality ingredients are the difference between average jerky and the best you’ve ever had.
What makes Jerky Junction different
Brisket is the headline. Most of the beef range is labeled Tender Brisket and billed as 100% beef brisket, whole muscle rather than chopped and formed, made with USA beef the manufacturer says is never imported. Every bag states that it is made in the USA and U.S. inspected and passed by the Department of Agriculture. The ingredient lists are short and share one backbone: beef, brown sugar and a teriyaki sauce built on soy sauce and wine, finished with garlic and lemon juice. No MSG is added beyond what occurs naturally in soy sauce, and no nitrates or nitrites beyond those in sea salt and celery juice solids, according to the labels. That same base carries over to the wild boar, which Jerky Junction files under its Exotic Jerky line, and where a smoke note appears it comes from liquid smoke with natural hickory smoke flavor.
Jerky Junction flavors we carry
If brisket is what you came for, the beef range runs from lightly peppered and teriyaki through garlic and whiskey, out to the ghost pepper and scorpion pepper bags the manufacturer places on the spicy side of its lineup. Filet Mignon is a separate tier, and there are roadside-style dry cuts, including a zero-sugar cowboy version, alongside crisps that are nothing but beef and sea salt. Browse the full beef jerky selection to compare them side by side. Beyond beef, the turkey breast jerky is made with gluten-free tamari and comes in original, teriyaki, sweet and spicy and hot; you’ll find it with the rest of our turkey jerky. The fish jerky covers salmon and ahi tuna in teriyaki and peppered styles, and the Texas-style wild boar sits with our pork jerky.
Rounding things out, sriracha, maple and applewood smoke style strips of uncured bacon live in the bacon jerky collection. Everything currently in stock is in the grid above.
Who it’s for
Heat runs the full span here: the jalapeno bag is labeled mild, Hot means hot, and ghost pepper and scorpion pepper are for people who want to be tested. Nearly everything is described as tender, with the dry-style and crisp lines as the exception if you like a firmer chew. Read the Contains line on each bag: the brisket, wild boar and dry-style flavors list soy and wheat, the turkey lists soy only, and the natural crisps list no allergens at all. If you avoid sugar, there is a zero-sugar beef option, and the salmon and ahi bags are the pick for seafood people.
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