Our Jerky Hut Cowboy beef jerky was recently rated 4 stars by the blog Best Beef Jerky!

The Cowboy Beef Jerky is our “regular” and “plain” jerky, but it is far from plain and regular with taste!

The first thing the reviewer noticed was a moderate saltiness and a light smoky flavor. The chewing flavor starts with a stronger smokiness, then followed by a light saucy flavor, and a light natural meat flavor. The saltiness in this feels quite prominent, with being a medium to high level of flavor. There’s a also dominant smoke flavor, more in the chewing.

As for the spice, there are faint touches of black pepper. The teriyaki and worcestershire sauces are not identifiable on their own, but up do pick up a light saucy flavor in the chewing. The natural meat flavors are noticeable to a light degree, but mostly in the latter part of chewing once the other flavors wear off.

There’s also a light touch of sweet in this. Overall, what you’re going to notice in this is largely the saltiness and then the smokiness. After that, you’ll pick up a light bit of a sauce flavor, and then a light natural meat flavor towards the latter part of chewing.

These are slices of whole meat, sliced into strips ranging from two to six inches, and sliced thick. This is a dry jerky with mostly a dry surface feel, but still lightly oily. The strips have little flexibility, cracking open with just a light bit of bending. Biting off chunks seems easy to do, while chewing seems easy overall.

The chewing texture starts out feeling stiff and woody, but manages to chew easily with only a little bit of resistance. It doesn’t seem to take long to chew down to a soft mass. At that point, it feels very much like eating a piece of steak cooked well done.

The strips appear to be very lean, finding no visible signs of fat, and tendon or gristle. There was no stringiness and nothing unchewable. In terms of clean eating, you pick up a fine layer of oil, but still dry enough to type on my keyboard. No fragments of meat fell off.

YummyJerky sells this Cowboy Beef Jerky from its website at a price of $10.00 for a 4oz package. If you bought four packages and had them sent to Southern California, shipping works out to $7.20, for a total of $47.20. That’s a price of $2.95 per ounce.

NOTE: Since the relaunch of their new website, Yummy Jerky now sells this jerky at a price of $31.00 for 4 1/4 lb. packages with USPS Priority Flat Rate shipping of $6.58 for a grand total of $37.58! That lowers the cost to $2.35 an ounce!

For general jerky snacking purposes, at the $2.95 per ounce price, it’s a fair value. You get a good snackability for a good overall flavor, great meat consistency and good chewing texture. Compared to major brands of jerky found in grocery stores, that price is about a $1.00 per ounce higher. It’s definitely a better jerky all around, but that price is high enough that it doesn’t quite match up to what this jerky offers.

We are giving this a good rating.

This Cowboy Beef Jerky from Jerky Hut offers up a flavor that seems to remind of old fashioned style jerky, with a higher salt profile, a lot of smokiness, and light amounts of marinade and natural meat flavors. It seems to have a nice balance of flavors between touches of sweet, a faint spice, a light saucy flavor, and heavier on the salt and smokiness.

The meat consistency seems excellent, with little to no fat, and with nothing crunchy, stringy, or rubbery, but still easy to bite off and chew, and feels like you are chewing a real piece of steak.

Overall, the meat consistency was the characteristic that makes this jerky above average. The flavor is good mostly for its balance, though not necessarily possessing any extraordinary qualities. The meat consistency drives most of the snackability, with the flavor providing enough satisfaction to keep you reaching for more.

A recommended beer pairing for this, try a standard IPA, where the lighter body will refresh the saltiness, and the stronger hops will create a lot contrast with the smokiness. Try the Stone IPA or the Sierra Nevada Torpedo.