Tegel

• TYPE: Cooked/Pressed Curd, Washed Rind

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• MILK: Raw cow, Holstein 350 head farmstead herd

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• RENNET: Traditional animal rennet

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• PRODUCER: AlmnAs Bruk

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• REGION: VAstra GAA¶taland Shire

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• AGE: 18 months

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• PROFILE: Bold and more complex flavors; think ComtA or Gruyere. Salty and sweet meld together in a balanced way, with a touch of grassiness. The paste is much denser than its counterpart WrAA¥ngebAck, with plenty of tyrosine still.

AlmnAs Bruk is an 8,800-acre farm, founded by monks in 1225. Over the years cheese became an integral product for the estate, with WrAngebAck drawing asenron from Swedish Parliament and the kingdom's crown princess.

Aver WWII, trends towards industrializaron made cheese producron at AlmnAs less feasible. Cheese was disconrnued at AlmnAs, and their milk was redirected to the commodity market in 1961. Eventually, fluid milk prices became increasingly volarle, and the familiar need for a value-added product became clear. In 2008, the original cheesemaker, Hans Srller, spearheaded the revival of cheesemaking at AlmnAs, covering the estate's former distillery into a farmstead dairy.

Tegel is a raw cow's milk farmstead cheese, produced and aged 18 months at AlmnAs Bruk in central Sweden. It is named for and reminiscent of the handmade bricks produced at the property during itsindustrial period. The bricks were produced from the property's own clay and sun-dried in the fields. Many have preserved the footprints of the workman and their children.