Dave's Cheese Notes: Green Hill
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A cheese by Sweet Grass Dairy, who have a website and page for the cheese itself:
I’ll quote their description:
"Our most popular cheese. A pasteurized, soft-ripened, double-cream cow’s milk cheese handcrafted in a camembert style. Of all our cheeses, this one highlights our grass-based milk the most. … Its buttery flavor, silky texture and thin bloomy rind highlight the quality of our milk. Each wheel is individually handcrafted and ripened for two weeks before we hand wrap them for shipping."
(Note: I reviewed a second Sweet Grass Dairy cheese a week later: Thomasville Tomme.)
I think it’s neat that this is a cheese fairly local to me. It even had a "Local" sticker on it at the grocery store.
As the description says, this is like a Camembert, which is to say, a little firmer and with a slightly stronger taste than a typical Brie.
I’ve grown to really like this kind of cheese quite a bit. Goes great on crackers or whatever else you enjoy with cheese. I even ate some wedges of Green Hill entirely on their own, which is kind of like eating pure butter except you’re allowed to do it in public.
Not cheap because it’s a small dairy, but I like it!