At the Out­door Retail­er show about a year ago I met, a friend who had pre­vi­ous­ly worked for Big Agnes. He had moved on to work­ing with Sweet­wood Jerky. We were at a par­ty after the show and nobody had eat­en. My friend was cir­cu­lat­ing some sam­ple bags of var­i­ous fla­vors of jerky. They were deli­cious! Oth­er hik­ers were at the event and we were fight­ing over the bag. Lat­er that night I met some of my friend’s co-work­ers and lined up to get some sam­ples for upcom­ing trips.

After eat­ing this jerky for the bet­ter part of the sum­mer on mul­ti­ple hikes, I high­ly rec­om­mend it. It is much bet­ter than any oth­er jerky I have ever had and makes gas sta­tion jerky seem like some­thing else altogether.

Yoni want­ed some jerky, but there was no way I was giv­ing any up. She had to set­tle for some pet­ting instead.

Sweet­wood is head­quar­tered in Steam­boat Springs, CO. All of their cat­tle are grass fed and antibi­ot­ic and hor­mone free. You can taste the difference.

The jerky comes in Orig­i­nal, Teriya­ki, Pep­pered, and Hot fla­vors and they have new meat sticks called Fat­ty, sold in Orig­i­nal and Jalapeno fla­vors. I have not yet tried the new Fat­tys but I can’t wait to get my hands on them! My only gripe is that each bag should have more than 2 ounces of jerky since it is so good and is hard to stop eating!

Dis­clo­sure: I received some free box­es to try out on some of my hikes.