TOP SHELF ORIGINAL Beef Jerky From Barren Creek Beef Jerky. Big 1 Pound Bag. Full of the Great Beef Jerky Flavor You Expect From Barren Creek Beef Jerky. Try Some Today. …

I am so happy with this company!! I have ordered, since November, 7 bags of their 1lb jerky, 2 of which are Jalapeno and 5 Cajun. This jerky is favored by me because I prefer a more "authentic" texture of dried meat. Like you would over a fire. It may be too dry for others, but my 8 yr old and I LOVE them. Any that are too soft when they come in I lay out to dry more. I like the really gentle spiciness. Just a little kick so you're getting the Jalapeno or Cajun taste without being in pain. I eat a lot of spicy food, but sometimes I like a milder version. We are die-hard fans!!!We did have a snafu with the first one. It came all "fake chewy-soft" like so many are today. For whatever reason it completely molded within a month. So gross. But I got an instant refund and I'm glad I gave them another try because we love this stuff!! Never had any of those problems again.

I feel like I ordered this before and it was good but this time it was really super dry and old. I want to order it again to see if that bad pack was an anomaly, but I am scared to be disappointed again. I'll probably still do it anyway though. I feel bad about the bad review because i'm 80% sure I ordered from these guys on my buddy's account and it was great. I hope if i order from the amazon warehouse again, it wont just dig me one that's even older.*changing this from 1 star to 5 because i ordered again and did not experience the same fate.

okay so heres my thinking , first the value is pretty decent under $30 a pound which is a good value in my eyes especially seeing as this is a specialty premium offering , second the spices used and the flavor of this is amazing , beat in mind the extreme fire is very very hot , im a person that eats hot sauce and sirracha on almost everything ,my only complaint and the only reason im revoving a star is that some peices are a bit on the tough side . if this has this flavor with slightly more tender peices this would be a five star product in my eyes .

My first review was deleted. Product is complete trash and no better than a stale slim jim with fatty hot hot sauce on it. No quality control and clearly focused on sales vs a quality product. Do not order if you like hot or quality.Update: So my review no covers the Barren Creek Sweet BBQ, Cajon, and Hot. My wife and I love jerky. We regularly buy in bulk online to try new flavors and different proteins. All we are looking for is quality meat, freshness, and fun flavors. We ordered Barren because it sounded like a family business that really cared about it product. We have no issue paying above market prices if the quality is there.Honestly, the product is so inconsistent. Each bag was tossed out after the first piece because it was either dry as a bone, fatty, no flavor, poor flavor, or not as advertised. If you have standards, please pass on the entire Barren Creek product line. Try another brand. Don't let them take advantage of you.

I'm a huge jerky fan! My favorites are Wild Bills n Uncle Mike's. Wild Bills is really soy n salty tasting n somewhat tough. Uncle Mike's is slightly more expensive, n chewy, but not many flavors that I've found. I really like the HOT one but my stomach n some other places (lmao) since I've gotten older tend to disagree! I like to make my own jerky n venison jerky. Also I can't stand this brown sugar n sugar most of these jerkies have. So, in stating all this, lets get down to business. I bought the garlic flavor of Barron Creek. I don't like that the bag come with air in it n not vaccumed out. Any jerky lover knows that u wanna keep ur jerky as airtight as possible when ur not eating it. 2nd u can definitely tell the meat is machine cut cause some pieces are thick n chewy n others are paper thin n hard. *I put my meat/venison in freezer, after trimming the fat, n let the meat get really cold yet not frozen. With a sharp good knife u can cut nice slices same size without the meat wiggling all around n making non uniform jerky.*3rd its kinda bland. I've never had to eat jerky over something to keep the, im guessing minced garlic, from gettin everywhere. 4th this jerky is very membranie n stringy. The thick pieces r better than the thin pieces except for the fact that I thing they use junk or bad parts of beef. I've bought several bags of Wild Bills n Uncle Mike's n NEVER found stringy membranie pieces n I buy the strips n pieces by the pound! This company is in Kentucky I believe. Seriously, they know they're not using the quality of meat needed for jerky! Understand that the better the meat the more expensive the jerky is probably gonna be. I like using the tenderloin the best but do ur research n there r couple other great/good pieces. I just wish I could find jerky as nice quality as my dad n I make. It's annoying going to a grocery store n there's a whole rack of like 15 different kinds of jerky n they all suck! To b honest it's cheaper n easy to make ur own. Plus u can personally make ur jerky spiced n marinated specifically to ur liking. The internet is a great thing nowadays! Use it! U can make great food if u just take the time to do a bit of research. I hope this helped out. Also, this is just my opinion, of coarse my wife loves it lmao! But she does say nothing comes close to mine. Unfortunately my father passed a few years back n I never got his recipe fir his venison jerky. I know he bought pre made jerky spices online cause I saw the boxes. Just don't know what or where he bought it from. But he didn't use the internet that much he was older n it was confusing to him lol. I enjoy cooking, curing, jerky, n smoking so when my brain says," I bet this would b really good with this ingredient or spice!" I try it n it's usually amazing!!

I'm a life-long jerky lover and this beef jerky places in the top 3 I've ever had. I got the teriyaki style and it is an awesome recipe...not too sweet but not too salty or soy sauce tasting. This jerky also has great texture and isn't too soft nor too chewy/hard. I've eating a good amount of the 2 1/2 pound bag so far and I've found only one small bite of a piece that I had to take out of my mouth because it was too hard. I'd highly recommend this jerky to anyone!

This is an excellent product. I'm not a beef jerky expert, but I appreciate a good beef jerky when I buy one. This is among the best I have tried; it is definitely better than the run-of-the-mill supermarket brands that are sold in my area. The jerky pieces are large, really dry, flavor-full, fresh, and the label does not have MSG as an ingredient. The price/quality/quantity relationship is high. I don't know what else to say about the product other than I will buy it again.