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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

University of Minnesota Colby Semi-hard Minnesota 🐄 🧀. Unusual in not being dyed yellow. Firm, springy texture. Sweet aroma, mild sweet flavor. Little acidity, but more than usual for the type. Finishes clean.

U of M Colby as purchased in clear shrink wrap with label. It is a solid white brick.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Black Diamond Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese Spread Soft Canadian 🐄 🧀 with added cream. Very smooth and rich spread, but cannot be considered "extra sharp." It's hard to find Canadian cheese here.

Black Diamond extra sharp cheese as purchased in a plastic tub, opened. The cheese is white and appears to have been poured in.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hatch Chile Cheddar from Henning Cheese Semi-hard Wisconsin 🐄 🧀 with added New Mexico peppers. A young mild sweet cheddar, I could not detect the pepper except by texture. No aftertaste. I had a serious head cold while eating this, which may have affected the flavor.

Hatch chile cheddar as purchased in clear plastic wrap with label. It is a solid ivory brick with small green flecks.

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Black Diamond Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese Spread Soft Canadian 🐄 🧀 with added cream. Very smooth and rich spread, but cannot be considered "extra sharp." It's hard to find Canadian cheese here.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today's cheese haul (and the line to get in)

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Seems to be a common sentiment around here.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Widmer's Matterhorn Alpine-Style Cheddar Cheese Semi-hard Wisconsin 🐄 🧀. An 8 month cheddar with added Swiss cheese cultures. It's a very smooth young cheddar, little sharpness, with some nut notes from the "Alpine" style. A bit dry for slicing, but a decent snack cheese.

Widmer's Matterhorn as purchased in clear plastic wrap with label. It is a solid light straw brick.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Société Roquefort Semi-hard French 🐑🧀 with blue mold. A genuine Roquefort, but a muted one. The blue pockets are large, giving the moist rich creamy cheese an added sharp and savory tanginess. An accessible, relatively inexpensive version of a classic.

Societe Roquefort as purchased in clear plastic wrap with label. It is white with large pockets of green, more toward the center of the original wheel.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Beecher's Handmade Jerk Spice Cheese Semi-hard Washington 🐄 🧀 with added spices (see alt text for list). Very earthy, savory and warming, with a smokey finish. Seemed a bit muddy at first, but grew on me. The cheese itself is more like a Monterey Jack than a cheddar.

Ad photo of Beecher's jerk spice showing a wedge and sliced. It is ivory to light straw color, with veins of brown and dark red. The spices are: black pepper, allspice, thyme, cayenne, cinnamon, nutmeg, and bay leaf.

Beecher's jerk spice as purchased in clear plastic wrap with label. The cheese is barely visible, but is off-white with brown spots.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bakaliko Kefalograviera Firm Greek 🐑🧀. Sweety fruity aroma. Firm, but not hard and dry like Kefalotyri. Rich, mellow, less salty than expected, with a piquant sharpness I really liked and a spicy finish. A fine snack cheese.

Kefalograviera as purchased in clear plastic wrap with label. It is a solid white wedge.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Smokin' Goat from Forever Cheese (Mitica) Firm Spanish (Canary Islands) 🐐🧀 with natural beechwood smoke. The smoke dominates, but is pleasant; under it is a mild toasty goat cheese with low acidity. Melts well.

Ad photo of Smokin' Goat showing packaged wheel with label and wedges. There is an orange-tan surface. The interior is solid and white.

Smoking Goat ax purchased in clear plastic wrap with label. It looks much as in the ad photo.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ms. Natural from Cypress Grove Fresh soft California 🐐🧀. I always wonder if flavored cheese is hiding defects; this is their plain goat cheese and it's good. Not as soft or as tangy as much chèvre, it's very clean with little aftertaste.

Ms. Natural as purchased in clear plastic wrap with label. It's a solid white disc.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Outback Chilli from Woodside Cheese Wrights Soft Australian 🐐🧀 with added chilis, saltbush, and pepperberry. Unexpected apple aroma (see alt text). Very spicy hot and salty, the herb flavors linger. Complex, hard to describe exotic flavor. The cheese itself is a mild delicate chèvre.

Outback Chilli ad photo. There is the former label Goat On a Hot Tin Roof. The cheese surface is coated green and red. The cheese itself is white and solid. The label includes apples and chilies.

Outback Chilli as purchased in clear plastic wrap with label and interior paper wrap. It's speckled green-grey. The label does not include apples or chilies among ingredients. Though the makers sag it's the same product, it may have been tweaked.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Picandou á Tartiner from Fromi Soft French 🐐🧀 with added cream and truffle flavor. This spread has a fairly strong onion-like chemical aroma and flavor, which is more truffle-like in aftertaste (which lasts forever). The chèvre is less tangy and more rich due to the added cream.

Picandou as purchased, showing packaging. It's usually seen from the side, being more conical.

Picandou opened. It is solid, white, appears soft.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rouzaire Camembert Soft French 🐄 🧀 with bloom rind. Had a bit of ammonia in aroma and flavor. Oozes at room temperature and has nice smooth texture. The Camembert flavor was only intermittent and subtler than expected.

Rouzaire Camembert as purchased, with woodrn lid removed. There is a white bloom mold over a tan surface.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Lavandula from Koch Semi-hard Swiss 🐄 🧀 with added thyme and narrow-leaf lavender. The herbs dominate unless you eat just the center, which is a good nutty alpine cheese that melts in the mouth. The herbs are very pleasant, though, and last long after swallowing.

Ad photo of Lavandula showing wheel with label. The surface is a fine grain mixture of brown and bits of other colors, notably lavender.

Ad photo of Lavandula under harsh light. A cut wheel and wedge show a deep purple surface and a milk white solid interior.

Lavandula as purchased in clear plastic wrap with label. A bit of the floral coat is visible. The interior is light straw color and solid.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Point Reyes Quinta Soft California 🐄 🧀 with bloom rind, spruce wrap, and added bay leaf. This is a winner. Aroma of herbs, spice and ammonia. Buttery, runny at room temperature with firm rind. Complex woodsy flavor, with brine, mushroom and a strong bay laurel finish.

Point Reyes Quinta as purchased in clear plastic wrap with label. The cheese is barely visible.

Quinta as purchased, unwrapped. It's the bottom; there's a bay leaf on the top. There's a spruce wrap. The surface is tan with a white mold bloom.

Ad image showing Quinta being spooned after top is removed. The spruce wrap is inedible, as is the leaf.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Woodside Monet Goat Cheese Soft Australian 🐐🧀 with added flowers. This chèvre is very tangy, perhaps my favorite of this style, smooth but not unsubstantial. The flowers add a nice herbal counterpoint.

Ad photo of Woodside Monet. It is a white block covered on top by large blue and yellow flowers, plus a smattering of others.

Another ad photo of Monet with very different flowers.

Monet as purchased, removed from box and clamshell, but with plastic wrap intact. It looks like the first ad photo, but the flowers have been crushed by packaging.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Vorarlberger Bergkäse, Extra Würzig Hard Swiss 🐄 🧀 with smear rind. Has typical sweet alpine style cheese aroma (others say it's pungent). Dense, firm, no holes, a couple of tiny crystals. Savory, nuts and broth, a bit of sharp spice develops (not yet "extra würzig"). Long dry finish.

Ad photo showing a wedge of Vorarlberger Bergkäse with label. There is an orange-tan rind. The paste is solid and almost light lemon yellow in color.

Vorarlberger Mountain Cheese as purchased in clear plastic wrap. The rind is a bit darker brown than in the ad.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

8 Blumen from Koch Semi-hard Swiss 🐄 🧀 coated in petals of flowers (named in alt text). The flowers give a deep pleasant vegetable flavor (only marigold was identified) and balances the nutty Appenzeller type cheese. Like Alp Blossom (reviewed earlier), I liked this a lot. Complex and flavorful.

Acht Blumen ad photo showing a cut wheel with label. The surface is multi-colored flower petals. The cheese is off-white with a couple of small incidental holes, and looks quite firm.

Another ad photo of 8 Blumen to better show the colors of the petals of cornflower, safflower, grass flower, mallow, marigold, rose, and strawberry.

8 Blumen as purchased in clear plastic wrap. The flowers have faded and been compressed. A thin tan rind is visible. The paste is solid and off-white

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Oma from Von Trapp Farmstead Semi-soft Vermont 🐄 🧀 with washed rind. Strong earthy aroma. Under the rind, the paste is mild and buttery, with a pudding softness.

Ad photo of Oma cheese showing packaging and a cut wheel. There is a tan rind dusted with white. The paste is butter yellow and has many large irregular eyes.

Oma as purchased in clear plastic wrap. The holes are a bit smaller than in the ad,but numerous. The paste is more yellow than this light suggests.

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Oma from Von Trapp Farmstead Semi-soft Vermont 🐄 🧀 with washed rind. Strong earthy aroma. Under the rind, the paste is mild and buttery, with a pudding softness.

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Danielle Smith @danielleps.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Did you know Mexico is the US's largest export cheese market? Now 🇺🇸 is mad at 🇲🇽 for an EU trade deal that would affect big 🇺🇸 producers from selling stuff (in 🇲🇽) labeled as "parmesan" not from Italy, "manchego" not from Spain, and "feta" not from Greece?? 🧀🍕 www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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Dispute over cheese names causes stumbling block in US-Mexico trade negotiations

What's in a cheese name?

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Gabriel Coulet Roquefort Semi-soft French 🐑🧀 with blue mold. This has large crystals and is heavy in blue sourness, yet is very sweet and smooth, a remarkable feat. There's a bit of herb underneath the saltiness and a dry mineral finish.

Gabriel Coulet Roquefort ad photo showing cut wheel with label and a slice. The paste is white with a large number of very big pockets of blue.

Gabriel Coulet Roquefort as purchased in clear plastic wrap. It is a little yellower in this light and the blue pockets have been crushed in wrapping, but are still sizable.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

MilleDôme French Raclette Firm French 🐄 🧀 with washed rind. Very strong rind flavors; you may want to remove it. Pungent aroma. Melts exceptionally well and is rich and nutty, full-bodied and earthy.

Ad photo showing melted raclette being poured onyo potatoes.

French raclette as purchased in clear plastic wrap. The rind is very thin, the paste a little lighter than in the ad. It's deformed a bit on the thin end from damage in storage and transportation.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Milkhaus Dairy Garlic and Dill Cheddar Semi-hard Wisconsin 🐄 🧀 with added garlic and dill. A young cheddar, sliceable not crumbly, with noticeable garlic. The dill was seen, but not tasted. A good snack cheese.

Milkhaus cheddar as purchased in clear plastic wrap with label. It is a solid orange brick with flecks of green.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Amaltheia Goat Cheese with Roasted Gaflic and Chives Soft Montana 🐐🧀 with added garlic and chives. Standard tangy chèvre with a strong garlic flavor, but not garlic bite, and onion-like chives, which add a slight crunch. A nice spread.

Amaltheia Goat Cheese as purchased, opened, seal removed. It is a white mass with cracks suggesting it's drying. A couple green flecks are visible.

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Sunday Cheese Reviews @venezuelanbeaver.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Today's cheese haul. I went *way* over budget and it's a heavy load.

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