What type of cheese is Gubbeen?
Gubbeen Cheese is a surface ripened, semi-soft, cow’s milk cheese with a pink and white rind. The flavours are creamy with mushroom and nutty aftertastes but vary depending on maturity of cheese. Gubbeen Farmhouse Products also produce a Smoked Gubbeen.
Where is Gubbeen made?
Cork, Ireland
Gubbeen is a semi-soft, washed-rind cheese produced by Tom and Gina Ferguson at their Gubbeen Farmhouse in Cork, Ireland. Their cheese twice won silver medals at the British Cheese Award. Made using pasteurised cow’s milk, the cheese has a pinkish white rind with a white bloom.
Is Gubbeen cheese strong?
What struck me most about this pasteurized cow’s milk cheese is that it is very mild. Take a very fine mild cheddar and serve it with a slab of the best butter in the world, and you have Gubbeen. Toward the rind, the flavor is a bit stronger but still on the mild side.
What does Gubbeen cheese taste like?
Tasting Notes Gubbeen has a distinctly characteristic scent of mushrooms, nuts and earthiness, all of which comes through in the taste of the younger Gubbeen cheeses too. At four weeks maturation the cheese also has a clear bounce and creaminess to its texture.
Where is Gubbeen cheese made?
County Cork, Ireland
Produced near Schull, in County Cork, Ireland by Giana and Tom Ferguson, Gubbeen is a semisoft, washed rind cow’s milk cheese.
Can you eat the rind on Gubbeen cheese?
Its appearance can be unappealing but it’s so tasty. This cheese has some very peppery, herby notes, but all that is found in the rind, which is why you need to eat it. The rind has started to collapse because the cheese wants to escape, but it’s very unctuous.
Where is Cashel Blue cheese?
Ireland
Tipperary, Ireland. We also make Cashel Blue Organic, Crozier Blue and Shepherd’s Store – our hard sheep’s milk cheese.
What is Gubbeen chorizo?
Gubbeen Chorizo is a delicious, Spanish style charcuterie straight from the Gubbeen farm smokehouse in west Cork. Gubbeen uses high welfare pork sourced from their own piggery as well as from neighbouring farms in what they call the ‘Piggy Co-op’. A passion for high quality, artisan food shines through in this product.
What is dorstone cheese?
Dorstone. This turret-shaped goat’s cheese combines a light, fluffy texture with bright, citrusy flavours and a gentle acidity. The practice of rolling cheese in ash was traditionally conceived in France as a way of deterring flies.
Who owns Cashel Blue cheese?
and Louis Grubb
Jane and Louis Grubb Founders and Co-Directors of the company, Together Louis and Jane created Cashel Blue in 1984.
Who makes Cashel Blue cheese?
When Louis & Jane Grubb set out to make Cashel Blue® in the early 1980’s, their ambition was to create a farmhouse cheese that “truly represents the outstanding quality of Tipperary grass-fed milk.” Today, more than 35 years later and in the hands of the 2nd generation, Cashel Blue® is still made by hand on the same …
Where is Tunworth made?
Hampshire
Tunworth was awarded Supreme Champion Cheese 2013 (British Cheese Awards). Made by Stacey Hedges and Charlotte Spruce in Herriard, Hampshire, England.
