Award Winning Cheese!!

Briar Rose Creamery’s Awards Wall. Photo by S. Marcus

Briar Rose Creamery wins another Good Food Award!

On Monday, April 29, 2024, Briar Rose Creamery brought home another Good Food Award! Our 9th Good Food Award and the first award for our Butterbaby!

Since opening our doors, Briar Rose Creamery has received numerous awards for our cheese. It is an honor to be recognized by our peers and panels of judges in blind tastings. We have made cheese with cow’s milk, sheep’s milk, as well as goat’s milk, and have earned awards for all three milk sources. As cheesmakers, we strive to make the best cheese possible and we are constantly making small changes to try to make the “perfect’ cheese. With this goal in mind, getting an award is a tremendous honor and a great way to know that we’re on the right path.

 

Briar Rose Creamery’s Awards



Briar Rose Creamery

American Cheese Society Award Winners


2023 ACS Winners

Fromage Blanc -Silver

Fata Morgana -Bronze

2022 ACS Winner

Fromage Blanc -Gold

Sheep Milk Feta -Gold

Agness -Gold

Brebis -Silver

2018 ACS Winner

Goat Milk Feta -Bronze

2017 ACS Winner

Goat Milk Feta -1st

Lorelei -3rd

Fromage Frais -3rd

2015 ACS Winner

Goat Milk Feta -1st

Carena -2nd

2014 ACS Winner

Classic Chevre -1st

Lorelei -3rd

2013 ACS Winner

Classic Chevre -3rd

2012 ACS Winner

Chocolate Chevre Truffles -3rd

2011 ACS Winner

Chocolate Chevre Truffles -1st


Briar ROse Creamery
Good Food Award Winners

2024 Good Food Award

  • Butterbaby

    2023 Good Food Award

  • Fromage Blanc

    2022 Good Food Award

  • Sheep Milk Feta

    2020 Good Food Award

  • Maia 

    2019 Good Food Award

  • Fromage Blanc

    2018 Good Food Award

  • Goat Milk Feta

  • Lorelei 

    2017 Good Food Award

  • Classic Chevre

    2013 Good Food Award

  • Classic Chevre

 

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.

Maia 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.