2022 American Cheese Society Winners!

June's Joy
Fresh goat cheese, produced in Dripping Springs, TX, with honey,
black pepper, and thyme.
Producer: Pure Luck Dairy
Cheese Style: Fresh
Milk Type: Goat
Pasteurization: Pasteurized
Region: Texas
Country: USA

Plain Chevre
Coming from Dripping Springs, TX, Pure Luck Dairy's award-winning fresh goat milk cheese is richly dense, yet brightened with inflections of citrus.
Producer: Pure Luck Dairy
Cheese Style: Fresh
Milk Type: Goat
Pasteurization: Pasteurzied
Region: Texas
Country: USA

Feta
Pure Luck Dairy's goat milk feta, out of Dripping Springs, TX, aged in a salt brine for a perfect crumbly, sharp bite.
Producer: Pure Luck Dairy
Cheese Style: Fresh
Milk Type: Goat
Pasteurization: Pasteurized
Region: Texas
Country: USA

Hand Dipped Ricotta
Calabro Cheese Company's Connecticut-made silky smooth whole cow's milk ricotta
Producer: Calabro Cheese Company
Cheese Style: Fresh
Pasteurization: Pasteurized
Region: Connecticut
Country: USA

Harbison
Vermont-based Jasper Hill Farm's award-winning spruce bark rimmed cheese is gooey inside with notes of raspberry and a whiff of forest.
Producer: Jasper Hill Farm
Cheese Style: Soft-Ripened
Milk Type: Cow
Pasteurization: Pasteurized
Rennet Type: Traditional
Region: Vermont
Country: USA

Green Hill Double Cream
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.
Producer: Sweet Grass Dairy
Cheese Style: Soft-Ripened
Milk Type: Cow
Pasteurization: Pasteurized
Region: Georgia
Country: USA

St. Albans
St. Albans is an aged cows' milk cheese and takes its name from the town of St. Albans, Vermont. Hand-shaped and aged for eleven days, these delicate cheese disks are packaged in sturdy ceramic crocks that double as a baking vessel.
Producer: Vermont Creamery
Cheese Style: Soft-Ripened
Milk Type: Cow
Pastuerization: Pasteurized
Rennet Type: Microbial
Region: Vermont
Country: USA

Reading Raclette
Spring Brook Farm's washed alpine-style cheese perfect for melting gets it's name from the town it's made in, Reading, Vermont.
Producer: Spring Brook Farm
Cheese Style: Semi-Soft
Milk Type: Cow
Pasteurization: Raw
Rennet Type: Traditional
Region: Vermont
Country: USA

Evalon
A sweet and nutty Gouda-style from LaClare Farms in Wisconsin. This rich goat's milk cheese has a smooth, creamy flavor and a piquant finish.
Producer: LaClare Farms
Cheese Style: Semi-Soft
Milk Type: Goat
Pasteurization: Raw
Rennet Type: Microbial
Region: Wisconsin
Country: USA

Winnimere
Vermont-based Jasper Hill Farm's bark wrapped, washed rind, super gooey savory flavor-bomb
Producer: Jasper Hill Farms
Cheese Style: Washed Rind
Milk Type: Cow
Pasteurization: Raw
Region: Vermont
Country: USA

Pleasant Ridge Reserve
Coming out of Wisconsin is Uplands Cheese Company's most award-winning cheese modeled after Comte - savory, nutty, and brothy.
Producer: Uplands Cheese Company
Cheese Style: Firm
Milk Type: Cow
Pasteurization: Raw
Rennet Type: Traditional
Region: Wisconsin
Country: USA

Barely Buzzed
Utah-based Beehive Cheese Company's coffee and lavender infused cheddar.
Producer: Beehive Cheese Company
Cheese Style: Firm
Milk Type: Cow
Pasteurization: Pasteurized
Rennet Type: Vegetable
Region: Utah
Country: USA

Seascape
Inspired by the sea, California's Central Coast Creamery blends goat and cow milk to capture bright, sweet & salty effervescence, all nestled in supple cheddariness.
Producer: Central Coast Creamery
Cheese Style: Firm
MIlk Type: Cow-Goat
Pasteurization: Pasteurized
Rennet Type: Vegetable
Locale: California
Country: USA

Dry Jack
Vella Cheese Company's hard jack cheese rubbed with olive oil and cocoa - a true American original
Producer: Vella Cheese Company
Cheese Style: Hard
Milk Type: Cow
Pasteurization: Pasteurized
Rennet Type: Vegetable
Region: California
Country: USA

Prairie Tomme
Producer: Green Dirt Farm
Cheese Style: Hard
Milk Type: Sheep
Pasteurization: Pasteurized
Region: Missouri
Country: USA

Bay Blue
Pt. Reyes Creamery's unique blue with notes of citrus and vanilla - think blue cheese ice cream.
Producer: Pt. Reyes Creamery
Cheese Style: Blue
Milk Type: Cow
Rennet Type: Traditional
Region: California
Country: USA

Smokey Blue
Oregon-based Rogue Creamery's cow milk blue cheese smoked over hazelnuts to give a bacon-like flavor.
Producer: Rogue Creamery
Cheese Style: Blue
Milk Type: Cow
Pasteurization: Pasteurized
Region: Oregon
Country: USA

Shakerag Blue
An ode to all things Southern, Shakerag is a crumbly yet dense blue-veined cheese cloaked in local fig leaves which have been soaked in Chattanooga Whiskey, the first legal whiskey being distilled in the city since Prohibition. Its salty-sweet and fruity interior is reminiscent of root beer, and lends itself to more complex notes of savory bacon, dark chocolate, and tropical flavors towards the rind.
Producer: Sequatchie Cove
Cheese Style: Blue
Milk Type: Cow
Pasteurization: Raw
Locale: Tennessee
Country: USA