Link to Local Sausage
Local farmers’ market shoppers discovered YOUBITE’s authentic housemade German sausages over two years ago and were hooked. Now owners Heinz and Carmen Hanssen and their daughter Carina Mohr, and her husband David, are expanding in January to include a bricks-and-mortar retail location in Camarillo. The small retail area fronts their spic-and-span manufacturing space where the Mohrs make about 2,500 to 3,000 sausages a week, in 16 different varieties.
“Some of the sausages have a traditional feel but are totally unique in their flavor profile,” says Carina. “They have been created anew with a well-balanced flavor as well as a good bite to them.” She explains that her parents were farmers in Germany and raised chickens and later turkeys. They butchered the animals and learned how to make sausages.
“They later moved to India and had a turkey farm where they did the same thing, but were now able to open their palate to a whole new level of spices,” she adds.
David grew up in a catering family in Cologne, Germany, so he “knows his way around food preparation and especially the microbiology behind it,” Carina says.
This is why YOUBITE’s sausages use family recipes and custom-blended spices. They also use good-quality meat, says Carina. “The parts [of meat] that we use are such that people, for example, might use for a good pork chop,” she says.
Choose from among familiar bratwurst and smoky pork Rheinlaender to the spicy Moroccan-inspired lamb Merguez. If you don’t eat pork or lamb, YOUBITE makes Turkey Knacks (like a hot dog) and Nürnberger (or Nurnbergs).
This winter, try a seasonal Holiday Wurst, a smoky sausage flavored with cinnamon, cloves and ginger. Carmen cooks it with sauerkraut and pineapple and serves it with bratkartoffeln (sliced roasted potatoes).
YOUBITE will remain at Ventura County farmers’ markets in Thousand Oaks, Camarillo, Downtown and Midtown Ventura, Channel Islands Harbor and Westlake Village, as well as sell online.
YOUBITE 745 W. Ventura Blvd., Unit J, Camarillo 805-308-3682; You-Bite.com
