2022 American Cheese Society Winners!

June's Joy from Pure Luck Dairy Pasteurized Fresh Goat Cheese

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