LINKS: Best Cheese in Wisconsin, 2010

By Erica
The Wisconsin State Fair Butter and Cheese Contest was held last Friday with over 300 entries. The winner will be celebrated on August 5th at the Wisconsin State Fair's Blue Ribbon Cheese and Butter Auction.

From what I can tell, the winner's are not yet made public, but there's a list of "top entries" for each category on the Wisconsin Ag site. The cheeseries I recognize are Chalet Cheese Co-o (maker of the new Liederkrantz!) a top entry for both swiss and smeared ripe cheese, and The Crave Brothers (who made our cupcake cheese), which is top for open class- soft and spreadable cheese. Carr Valley, which supplies goat cheese for Madison Sourdough's cafe's, is at the top of sheep and mixed milk cheese.

Click here for the full list of top entries... whatever that means!

LINKS: Liederkrantz returns!

By Erica

In January, we wrote about the legend of Liederkrantz, a cheese that had become extinct 20 years ago. Check out the post for the intriguing story.

But it looks like Liederkrantz has returned! A couple years ago, the DCI Cheese Co bought the cheese division of ConAgra, who apparently was holding on to the Liderkrantz recipe. Last weekend in Madison, cheesemaker Myron Olson of DCI presented Liederkranz at the World Championship Cheese Contest. Olson works out of the Chalet Cheese Co-Op in Monroe, WI, and his cheesery also makes Limburger, the German cheese that Liederkrantz was styled after.

Liederkranz fans rejoice! In the next week, the the cheese will reappear in Milkwaukee, Whitefish Bay, Mequon, Wauwatosa, Grafton, Elm Grove, Franklin, Greenfield and Germantown, Wisconsin.