VERMONT’S PRODIGAL BREWER
Shaun Hill won’t make it to Chicago for the Craft Brewers Conference in April. He will most likely be up to his armpits in a mash tank, racing toward the May opening of Hill Farmstead Brewery, in Greensboro, Vt. If have the slightest interest in artisan cheese, dateline Greensboro should ring a bell for you. [...]
CHAMPION CHEESES AND YODELING
I wasn’t able to visit/report on the World Cheese Championship last week, but there is an excellent post from Cheese Underground that includes a video of Willi Lehner’s yodeling. A few years ago I might have described the World Cheese Championship, organized by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, as kind of stodgy old-school competition, at [...]
PAIRING NO. 2: HOOK’S AND HOPS
There’s been quite a buzz in cheese circles about a recent release from Hook’s Cheese Co., Mineral Point, Wis. It’s Hook’s 15-year Cheddar. That’s right, when this puppy first went from milk to curd, Bill Clinton was still working in the Oval Office. Cheesemakers Tony and Julie Hook make more than 30 types of cheese, including [...]



















