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Alexandria-Made Sausages Delight Tastebuds

Logan's Sausage Co. sells fresh sausages at area grocery stores, bodegas.

The Logan family will gladly show you how their sausage is made.

The Logans, owners of Logan’s Sausage Co. of Alexandria, have been supplying area meat-lovers with specialty sausages and chorizo since 1987. At this family enterprise, quality comes first.

“What we do here is we’re making kind of an old-fashioned, butcher’s type-style sausage,” said Cliff Logan III, vice president of operations. “We use high-quality cuts of meat. We don’t use any trimmings. It’s the same kind of meat you could use in pork barbecue. It gives it a better flavor.”

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Freshness is also key, he said. “We make them today, and they’re in the store in 24 hours.”

The company was founded in 1987 by Logan’s parents, Cliff Logan Jr., and Bonnie Logan. Cliff Logan Jr. worked for years in the grocery store business, including at A&P and at Giant, before venturing out on his own.

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Kevin Logan, the couple’s younger son and the company’s director of sales and marketing, said his father first rented chef’s space in an Alexandria kitchen. He began with a few varieties of chorizo sausage to sell to nearby bodegas.

He started with Salvadorian and mild Argentine chorizo, and later added sweet and hot Italian. The business grew from there. The company now makes 26 varieties of sausage, including 10 types of chorizo. Chorizo varieties include Mexican, Jalapeno, Colombian, Guatemalan, Honduran, Spicy Argentine and a chicken variety. 

Other specialities include Andouille sausage, Polish kielbasa and bratwurst.

“He developed these by working with local chefs and people from those countries to get a formula people really like,” Kevin Logan said. “ … We have a recipe for every kind of sausage you can think of.”

The company produces about 7,000 pounds of sausage daily, he said. The sausages contain no preservatives or MSG, and the fresh sausage varieties contain no nitrates. The production facility is kept clean and cold, at a temperature of 40 degrees. The company employs 17 people, Cliff Logan III said.

The family’s sausages can be found at area grocery stores including , , and Harris Teeter, and at local bodegas.

The Logans also sell their sausages directly to the public at wholesale prices from their production facility, located at 4116 Wheeler Ave., off of Duke Street. Call before stopping by at 703-212-6677.


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