[Cheese] Golden Oldie

[Jack Schmidling]

We just cut into the oldest cheese we ever made.  They usually never get 
beyond the year mark but since our (neighbor's) Jersey died, we have 
been pushing the last few to the back of the "cave" to let them really 
age.  It is a Cheddar marked #130 Oct 29 2004

The #130 means it was the 130th batch of cheese made since starting out 
in 1999.

It is with humility that I won't say it is the best Cheddar I have ever 
tasted but I really want to.  It has some mold in it that is interesting 
in that most of it just adds a blue mold touch but there is some other 
mold in spots that is down right yucky.

The texture is a bit more grainy than a younger cheese but that just 
adds to the character.

This was made from unpasteurized Jersey milk and it is about the color 
of artificially colored butter.  The yellow is a hallmark of Jersey 
milk.  And the reason almost all cheese and butter is colored 
artificially today.  Holsteins produce more so the masses are fooled 
with artificial color into thinking it came from quality cows.

There are still two more of these in there so we will wait another year 
and see what happens.

js


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