Why BERSKI
BERSKI began with two fathers, Rickard Blomberg and Aleksandr Rybchinskiy, looking for a better everyday snack for their young kids and themselves. Too many choices felt overprocessed or short on the real ingredients they wanted to serve. So they asked a simple question: could a convenient beef stick be made with the same care they put into food at home?
The answer began in Aleks’ kitchen. What started as a family project became BERSKI: beef sticks built around whole beef, liver and heart, with every part of the blend named plainly.
How we got here
As parents, Rickard and Aleksandr wanted a snack they would be happy to eat and share with their families. The store shelves offered plenty of convenience, but they were looking for something more straightforward: real ingredients, meaningful food and a label they could understand without a second look.
That search became the reason to make their own. From the beginning, the goal was to create something useful in real life, not just something that sounded good on a package.
The first batches came out of Aleks’ kitchen. Rickard and Aleksandr tried jerky recipes, worked with different cuts of beef and refined the drying process. They kept adjusting the recipe until it was a snack they wanted to reach for again.
Family and friends were the first people to taste it. Their feedback helped shape the recipe, and their requests for more showed the founders that this small kitchen project could grow into something bigger.
Along the way, liver and heart became part of the recipe. They are familiar foods in many traditional diets, and we believe they deserve to be named rather than hidden behind a vague description.
Our ancestral blend is stated plainly: 70% grass-fed beef, 25% whole beef liver and 5% whole beef heart. Salted, Salt & Pepper and Cajun Seasoned all begin with that same foundation. Flavor matters to us as much as clarity; this is food meant to be enjoyed, not a compromise to get through.
Our packaging describes the beef as 100% grass fed, 100% grass finished and pasture raised in the USA. Those details matter because the story of a snack starts well before anyone opens the wrapper.
We want people to know what goes into a BERSKI stick and to recognize the ingredients by name. Keeping that promise visible, from the beef to the finished snack, guides the choices we make as the company grows.
Life rarely slows down for a carefully planned snack. There are school days, long drives, workdays and days outdoors. We make BERSKI for the moments when you want something convenient that still reflects what you value about food.
We started with our own families, and we keep building with that same question in mind: would we be proud to share this? Our aim is to make ancestral ingredients easier to enjoy in modern life, one honest, good-tasting stick at a time.