Kramer Sausage Company

12/10/2025

Marc Kramer wrote several pieces of music for this film! Watch it in your favorite Video On Demand service, (Amazon, Apple, etc.) or the theater if you live in New York City or Los Angeles or any of the other large theater markets.

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08/15/2025

Please share! Marc has released his first single on Spotify and iTunes - a novelty song recently remixed and remastered. Other than the lead vocal, Marc played everything else! Using the Artist name of Lerxsty Neil, and a homage to the band, Rush!

Here's the iTunes link - the Spotify link will be in the first comment.😃

Album · 2025 · 1 Song

04/07/2025

Just thinking out loud this morning. This spring is when we really start to get the buildings emptied, remaining items sold, etc., so the buildings can be put up for sale. There is the main Kramer Sausage Company Building on the corner, the next door building with the 1 bedroom apartment above it, and the metal building/fenced in yard on the rear corner of the block.

We do have someone interested in the refrigeration equipment for the 3 coolers and 1 freezer. One of the brothers is working on getting the pricing for that.

We have aluminum and stainless steel smokesticks and stainless steel bacon hooks for sale.

12/01/2023

Remember this from about 6 years ago? There is a new book out about "Rural Iowa Sausage - History and Tradition of Bratwurst on the Backroads" by the writer of this blog, Jay Goodvin.

Jay is always thorough in his love of scouring the entire state of Iowa for his food blogs. He is entertaining and has an upbeat, infectious enthusiasm for all things Iowa!

I know Kramer Sausage Company is permanently closed, but maybe you can find some other treasured places in Iowa to get some good meats and sausages! As Joest has said, everyone is known for something they do well, and always support the little guys (businesses) when you can. These are your neighbors and friends!

And if you are so inclined, support fellow Iowan, Jay Goodvin, by getting a copy of his book! Links in the first 2 comments below.

La Porte City, IA: Black Hawk County There’s a lot of places we’ve seen in our adventures here in Iowa and we can bring up endless memories of them. However, there’s only a few la…

09/20/2023

Modular cooler panel walls, cooling units and packaging machine, which will be up for sale sometime in the future.

08/06/2023

From Fred Bombach’s personal sketchbook, 1969.

The 1896 building that burned down in October of 2003.

12/30/2022

Sold out, folks! The retail store is officially closed permanently, now.

Thank you all for your support! It is greatly appreciated.

12/30/2022

Nice article in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier today.

Kramer’s Sausage Company in La Porte City is choosing to close after 59 years of serving the state with its quality casings.

12/30/2022

We are completely SOLD OUT!

The store is officially closed.

We would like to thank everyone for their support over these past 59 years. Thank you all so much!

12/19/2022

Joest Kramer interview on KCRG TV Channel 9 today. So nice of them to contact us!

After 59 years in business, Kramer Sausage Company will be closing at the end of the year.

12/18/2022

GREAT STOCKING STUFFERS for the meat lovers in your life (including you!) We have Peppered Ham, and Smokey Beef Sticks (regular, and with Jalapeño Cheese or Cheddar Cheese).

Other items we have that may or may not be good stocking suffers (that's entirely up to you!):

We have our famous fermented Beef Summer Sausage (regular, and with Jalapeño Cheese or Cheddar Cheese), Our famous Cooked Bratwurst with Jalapeño Cheese or Cheddar Cheese (no more plain left).

Smoked Turkeys, Smoked Turkey Breasts, Smoked Turkey Drumsticks, Smoked Bacon, Smoked Pork Chops, Smoked Ham, Smoked Chickens, Smoked Chicken Drumsticks, Smoked Cornish Hens, Cottage Bacon, Smoked Pork Ribs, Smoked Beef Ribs.

Cervelat (a pork and beef fermented summer sausage), Cooked Bockwurst, Smoked Pork Sausage Breakfast Links, Smoked Bratwurst, Frankfurters, Beef Wieners,

For slicing: Turkey Pastrami, Dried Beef, Smoked Ham

***We are out of the Regular Cooked Bratwurst, Ring Bologna, Smoked Braunschweiger, and Peppered Beef, but everything else is in stock!

Open Mon-Fri 8-12, 1-5, and Saturday, 8-12 this and next week. Then we are closed after December 31st.

12/11/2022

December 31st will be the last of our day-to-day sales. We have stopped making any more product, we will be closing the retail store permanently.

We have an almost full inventory of all our products, so there is still plenty to choose from!

We were planning on closing in October, but we still had some orders and obligations to fulfill, so we stayed open a little longer. Then our loyal customers and good friends were asking us about Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys and hams, so we decided to stay open for those requests as well.

All our staff has retired or moved on, and due to health reasons, we have decided this is the right time to close.

We are already in the works of selling off our machinery, as well as small items like meat pans and such

Thanks to all our customers and friends who have been with us over the years. We will miss the friendly interactions we have had with all of you at the store. Thank you!