Sweet Grass Dairy - Asher Blue
Many of you have tried Sweet Grass's Thomasville Tomme, a delicious Tomme style cheese, creamy and tangy. And we can't talk about IPAs today without talking about blue cheese. (Session IPA Side by Side). Now we have Asher Blue in stock. They have a video over on their website that features the Littles (owners and cheesemakers at Sweet Grass) talking about this cheese. It is one of 3 natural rind blue cheeses in the country, and if Jeremy Little could only eat one cheese the rest of his life it would have to be blue! -------TASTING NOTES ----------
On first appearance I thought they had accidentally wrapped a Thomasville Tomme in the wrong foil, the rinds look very similar and have a similar size and shape. I slice into it and ta da, blue veins a plenty.
It is definitely a stinky cheese but not overpowering. It smells like a barn, hay, livestock, and especially sheep's wool. (It smells like this sweater I got in Ireland a few years back!) It isn't very crumbly and slices very nicely. The texture is smooth and creamy. It is definitely earthy and mushroomy, as the Jeremy Little describes it in the video.
Check out the rest of their products here and the videos about Asher Blue!