1st Phorm is an American sports nutrition and fitness company founded in 2009. The company built its reputation on sports nutrition supplements, particularly protein powders, and has since expanded its product line to include apparel, fitness resources, and high protein meat sticks. Founded on Midwestern values and a strong work ethic, 1st Phorm emphasizes product quality, customer service, and Read More
Archives for October 2026
1400 Jerky Tags
It took almost thirteen years to celebrate creating 1400 Jerky Tags here at www.jerkyingredients.com. For the record, there are 79 jerky categories, whereas WordPress has, or at least had a limit of around 100 categories. As a basic description, a Jerky Tag is descriptive, and a Jerky Category is generalized. Jerky tags are unlimited in the popular web content management system WordPress. Read More
Tennessee Brown Bag – Dill Pickle Beef Jerky
Tennessee Brown Bag is a beef jerky brand founded by Heather and Derek in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The business began in 2019 after the two met through mutual friends and discovered a shared interest in making beef jerky. Both had more than a decade of experience making jerky, and what started as a small operation in Heather’s home quickly grew into a full-time business within two months. Despite the challenges of Read More
450 Jerky Brands Reviewed
It took nearly twelve years to review 450 brands of jerky. Stating ‘jerky brands’ is a bit unfair, as some of these brands are meat sticks, biltong, or other types of dried meat brands, but for the most part, they are jerky brands. It is getting increasingly hard to find new jerky brands. I can walk into a store with a great variety of jerky brands and still find that every single brand has been Read More
Netvleish – Bobaas Biltong
NetVleish is a family owned meat company established in 2018 by Vorster Gauche and his wife Hantie who come from a traditional South African Boer farming family. Now living on a small farm in northeastern British Columbia, they founded the business to preserve and share the authentic South African meat products and flavours they grew up with. The company specializes in biltong, droëwors, boerewors, and other specialty Read More
Hook-N-Ladder Jerky – Honey Beef Stick
Hook-N-Ladder Jerky is a family owned meat snack company founded in 2018 by retired Cleveland firefighter Mark Bauman, whose lifelong appreciation for smoked meats began while growing up in Cleveland’s historic Slavic Village neighborhood. Influenced by the old world butcher shops and Eastern European smokehouses of Northeast Ohio during the 1960s and 1970s, Bauman spent years searching for Read More