the cheese blog

Birchrun Blue

Another visit to Reading Terminal for vegetables, another stop by the Fair Food Farmstand for cheese. I picked up a couple of items, including Birchrun Blue from Birchrun Hills Farm in Chester Springs, PA. The cheese is made from raw cow’s milk that is aged 80+ days (according to this review on Aparment Therapy). It has a wonderful carmel-yellow color with blue, green, gray, and brown veins. The cheese has a brown-grey natural rind. The aroma is quite light, with a slight barnyard smell. The texture is slightly firm; not creamy but not crumbly either. This really is a good blue cheese. It has that aged quality and is quite mellow. It was not overpowering or too salty. It had a nice, earthy blue-taste, but with some complexity to it. Definitely not a one-dimension blue cheese.