TOP 50 Cheesemakers in the United States!!!

Wait! What? Really? Wow!!!

We’re blown away to be named one of the top 50 Cheesemakers in the United States of America according to Food & Wine Magazine! What a wonderful surprise to receive the news as 2021 wrapped up. We’re so excited to be included on the list with some of our friends, mentors, and heroes in the artisan cheese community like fellow Oregonians Rogue Creamery, Washington State cheesemakers Cascadia Creamery, Beechers, Cowgirl Creamery in California, and Goat Lady Dairy in North Carolina.

Here’s a link to the article to see the full list:

The Best Cheese in America: These Are the Top 50 U.S. Cheesemakers

American cheese has come a long way.

By David Landsel

December 14, 2021

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Briar Rose Creamery (Oregon)

From creamy Butterbloom to fragrant washed-rind Maia, all the cheeses at this can-do operation in the Willamette Valley are winners in our eyes, but it's the wintertime, when the pungent, brine-rubbed Phoebe makes her appearance, all dolled up in French spruce bark, that things get really exciting. Organic Ayrshire milk goes into a semi-soft cheese that smells a lot like a Northwest pine forest during the magical wet season—earthy, fragrant, ever so slightly intoxicating.

Cheese board with Maia. Photo by Christine Hyatt.

Photo by S. Marcus

Maia. Photo by Christine Hyatt

How now, spotted cow?

How now, spotted cow?

People are always asking me what's new. Since last summer my answer has been the same.  Briar Rose Creamery has expanded our line to include cow's milk cheeses!  

It's all about the milk....

Ayrshire cow's milk makes Briar Rose Creamery's cheeses stand out in a crowd.

Briar Rose Creamery is incredibly fortunate to work with the Perrin family who have Oregon's only herd of certified organic Ayrshire cows.....

GOOD FOOD AWARD WINNER!

GOOD FOOD AWARD WINNER!

I traveled to San Francisco in mid-January to visit with friends, network with cheese colleagues, and receive my SECOND Good Food Award for Briar Rose Creamery’s Classic Chevre.  Briar Rose Creamery’s Classic Chevre was singled out as one of the best cheeses in the United States!  We were one of only 15 creameries awarded a medal out of hundreds of entrants.  The Good Food Awards received over 2000 product entries in fourteen categories.  Find the entire list of the 193 winners in all categories HERE.