Only 350 days until 2008

It's January 15th a Monday and my first blog. Welcome to Stinkstown where the cheese is smelly and so it the blogger. I am Caseus, yes it really is my real name. Keep coming back for stupid stories, rants, and information on useless but important things. Such as cheese.

Last night we did a tasting class at work, yeah I work at a cheese shop. Swiss, German and Austrian cheeses with beers and wines to match. Below was our tasting sheet number five was the all out winner for the night. A small class 12 people total but all were interested and had plenty of good questions. Only one nice looking young lady but she had a boyfriend, want waaaa.

1. Varuna Puschlau, Switzerland

A tomme style cow’s milk cheese that blends Italian and Swiss flavors of cream and baked herbs.

2. Mascaplin Switzerland
Goat’s milk from the Swiss Alps

Pinkus Mueller Hefe - Weizen Germany
An organic wheat ale made with some barley but mostly wheat malt and hops. Citric flavors and an astringent mouth-feel make this beer a perfect match for goat’s milk cheeses.

3. Sibratsgfall Berkasle Austria
Lightly smoked cow’s milk aged for four months with hints of chestnut, cream and honey.

Schlenkerla Helles Lagerbier Bamberg, Germany
This smoke beer is made in copper kettles but does not use smoke malt which gives it a clean crisp finish with the characteristic balance of spice and bacon in the nose, a nice pair with the smoke and honey flavors of the cheese.

4. Senne-flada Switzerland
Stinky soft cow’s milk in the reblochon style. Notes of coffee and cream.

Kalmuck Gruner Austria

5. Gruyere Alpage Friboug, Switzerland
Only in the warmest summer months can the Montbéliardes make the transhumance up to the snowlines of the Swiss side of the Jura Mountains, where they dine on wild grasses and their milk is cooked over wood-fired cauldrons in high altitude chalets.

Ettaler Doppelbock Germany
Sweet dark beer with notes of chocolate and figs. Yum