Sausage Review - we review sausages

Becky's Butchers is on Badley Hall Farm, Great Bromley near Colchester, Essex and is run by Becky herself on the families farm. As we were on our way to friends at Thorrington near by, it would have been criminal not to call in to the farm shop ourselves...

Becky's Butchers opened in January 2017, offering people with livestock the chance to have their meat butchered to the highest standard. In 2021, Becky won the Rising Star award and she has been shortlisted for the Meat Businesswoman Award in 2025 which will be anounced late November 2025. She was also a finalist in the Butchers, Deli and Farm Shop Awards in 2025. 

Becky's Butchery compete regularly at Harwich Sausage Festival, which they won with their Pork and Leek sausage three years in a row: 2018, 2019, and 2020. They were crowned the overall Champion in 2018. In the 2020 at Meat Management awards evidently, their Best Pork Sausage was "Highly Commended".

With the beef we are told being produced on the farm, we thought we'd give the beef and horseradish variety a go. We bought these already frozen as it happens. Not that that matters, but there was very few fresh sausages available on the day we rolled up. 

We like the zing and rasp of horseradish as it happens, which you can't really compare to chilli to be honest, it has a taste of it's own.

Now as they were already frozen we kept them that way until we were ready, and we will admit, yes once again, kept them a little longer than planned in our polar ice-station of a freezer. Defrosted they certainly looked no worse for wear for their experience, so in the old pan they went.

Nice to see decent sausages in natural skins though once again. You know our views on those sausages in their collagen tubes!

Cooked up they browned superbly well. No splits from what seemed fairly decent skins by the way, however we were surprised how much additional oil came out of these. Nearly 52ml extra in the pan which is considerable. Now this isn't great as weight loss and perhaps succulence will be definitely noticeable.

A good meaty texture here with a fair succulence as it happens given the level of oil loss. The skins cut really well and the bite and chew was not bad either. But...

Where was the horseradish? Good sesoning and a beefy tasting sausage but with no noticeable horseradish unfortunately. We were a little disappointed. Perhaps a mix problem when they were made? Perhaps it's there but our tastebuds can't detect it? Next time we call in I will broach the subject. A good beef sausage though.

Would we buy them again. Let's see...

Becky's Butchers (Gt Bromley, Essex) - Beef & Horseradish   (Oct 2025)

Here's the sample details:
110x32mm before cooking, 100x32mm after.
91g before cooking, 72g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 9% & weight loss of approx 20%.
6 sausages in a 534g pack £5.87 (£11.00 / Kg)

 
 

Becky's Butchers
Badley Hall Farm
Great Bromley
Colchester
Essex CO7 7UU

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www.beckysbutchers.co.uk